Verse 45

⁴⁰Good fortune is my own lordly nature; the highest gain is devotion to me. Learning is the doing away of division in the self; modesty is loathing for what should not be done. ⁴¹Beauty is qualities such as wanting nothing. Happiness is getting past both pain and pleasure. Pain is the wanting of the pleasure of desire. The learned man is the one who knows bondage and release. ⁴²The fool is the one who takes the body and the rest for I. The road is held to be what leads to me; the wrong road is the scattering of the thought; heaven is the rising of the strand of clarity. ⁴³Hell is darkness raised high. The kinsman is the teacher, and that is I, friend. The home is the human body; and one rich in good qualities is called rich.

⁴⁴The poor man is the one who is not content; the wretch is the one whose senses are not conquered. The lord is the one whose understanding is not caught among the strands; and being caught among them is the other way round. ⁴⁵These questions of yours, Uddhava, have all been well set out. What use is much describing, of the marks of a merit and a fault? Seeing merits and faults is itself the fault; the merit is to be free of both.