Verse 26

²²He should conquer desire by making no plans; anger by letting desire go; greed by seeing that wealth is no good; and fear by looking into what is real. ²³Grief and confusion by looking closely; a show of piety by serving the great; the things that get in the way of yoga by silence; and harming by not striving after desire and the rest. ²⁴The pain that comes from other beings he should throw off by pity, and what comes from fate by settling the mind; what comes from himself by the strength of yoga, and sleep by keeping to clarity. ²⁵Passion and darkness by clarity, and clarity itself by growing quiet; and all of this a man conquers easily by devotion to his teacher.

²⁶If a man takes his teacher, who is the Bhagavan in person and holds out the lamp of knowledge, for a mortal and an unreal thing, then all he has heard is like the bathing of an elephant.