Verse 55

⁵¹Once he goes about with chariots finished in gold, or on rutting elephants, and is called god among men; and by time, which cannot be got past, that same body of yours gets the name of dung, or worms, or ash. ⁵²Having conquered the circle of the quarters, with no one left to fight, sitting on the highest seat, praised by kings who are his equals, a man is led about at home, Lord, like a pet animal for the bed pleasure of women. ⁵³He does works, standing firm in austerity, turned away from enjoyment and taking it up again with an eye to that; and thinking let me be more yet, let me rule alone, his thirst grown big, he is not fit for happiness.

⁵⁴When a release from the round is to come for a person wandering in it, Unfallen One, then he meets the good; and the moment he has that company, then and there a mind is born in him set on you, the goal of the good, the lord of the high and the low. ⁵⁵I take it as a kindness done to me by you, Lord, that the tie to a kingdom fell away of itself: the thing good men ask for, kings of whole lands who want to go into the forest and live alone.