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and Ignorance, once overcome, Leave Soothfastness, O
Bharata! Where this With Ignorance are absent, Passion rules; And
Ignorance in hearts not good nor quick.
When at all gateways of the Body shines
The Lamp of Knowledge, then may one see well
Soothfastness settled in that city reigns; Where longing is, and
ardour, and unrest, Impulse to strive and gain, and avarice, Those
spring from Passion- Prince!- engrained;
and where Darkness and dulness, sloth and stupor are, 'Tis Ignorance
hath caused them, Kuru Chief!
Moreover, when a soul departed, fixed In Soothfastness, it goeth to
the place- Perfect and pure- of those that know all Truth. If it
departed in set habitude Of Impulse, it shall pass into the world
Of spirits tied to works; and, if it dies In hardened Ignorance,
that blinded soul Is born anew in some unlighted womb.
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