व्यसनमिव दातुं – It indicates that the enjoyment of pleasures in heavens binds still more fetters on us by increasing out thirst and hence is the cause of an added
volume of miseries. ]
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अवश्यं यातारश्चिरतरमुषित्वापि विषया |
12. The objects of enjoyment, even after staying with us for a long time, are sure to leave us sometime ; then what difference does their privation in this way make to men, that they do not of their own accord discard them ? If the enjoyments leave us on their own initiative, i.e. if they tear themselves from us, they produce great affliction of the mind ; but if men voluntarily renounce them, they conduce to the eternal bliss of self-possession.
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ब्रह्मज्ञानविवेकनिर्मलधियः कुर्वन्त्यहो दुष्करं |
13 . Ah ! it must be indeed a difficult feat which persons, with their minds purified by the discrimination arising from knowledge of Brahman, accomplish, in that, free from desire, they
