Keepवासनैवेह भवतां हेतुरेकत्र बन्धने ।रज्जुः शून्याशयप्रोता मुक्तानामातता यथाIn plain wordsVāsanā alone, here, is the cause of your being bound together - just as a string threaded through the empty hollows of pearls, drawn taut, binds them together.