Verse 37

³⁷A steady man, though beings that follow the sway of fate set upon him, knows this and does not move off his road. That is the vow I learned from the earth. ³⁸A good man, whose every effort is always for the sake of others and whose very coming into being is for others alone, should learn from the mountain, taking the tree for his teacher, to have others for his self. ³⁹A sage should be content with what keeps his breath going and not with what pleases the senses, so that his knowing is not destroyed and his speech and mind are not scattered. ⁴⁰A yogin going into objects of many kinds on every side, his self kept clear of good and bad in them, should not stick fast to them: he should be like the wind.

⁴¹Entered here into bodies made of earth and taking shelter in their qualities, a yogin who sees the self is not joined to those qualities, as the wind is not to the scents it carries. ⁴²Hidden away inside things that stand still and things that move, by the being of Brahman that is his self and runs through them all, a sage should think on his own being sky: spread out, undivided by all that pervading, and attached to nothing. ⁴³The sky is not touched by things made of fire and water and food, by clouds and the rest that the wind drives along; and in the same way a person is not touched by the strands that time brings out.