Brahman said The ancients who always used to speak truth, say that Renunciation is penance. Brahmanas, living in that which has Brahma for its origin understand Knowledge to be high Brahma.

Brahma is very far off, and its attainment depends upon a knowledge of the Vedas. It is free from all pairs of opposites, it is shorn of all qualities; it is eternal; it is gifted with unthinkable qualities; it is supreme.

It is by knowledge and penance that those gifted with wisdom see that which is the highest. Indeed, they who are of unsullied minds, who are purged of every sin, and who have transcended all passion and darkness (succeed in seeing it.)

They who are always given to renunciation, and who are conversant with the Vedas, succeed in attaining to the supreme Lord who is at one with the path of happiness and peace, by the help of penance.

Penance, it has been said, is light. Conduct leads to piety. Knowledge is said to be the highest. Renunciation is the best penance.

He who understands self through accurate determination of all subjects, undisturbed, which is at one with Knowledge, and which lives in all principles, succeeds in going everywhere.

That learned man who sees association and dissociation, and unity in diversity, is freed from misery.

He who never desires for anything, who despises nothing, becomes eligible, even when living in this world, for assimilation with Brahma.

He who is conversant with the truths about qualities of Greatness, and understands the Pradhana as existing in all principles, who is free from mineness and egoism, forsooth, becomes liberated.

He who is freed from all pairs of opposites, who does not bend his head to any body, who has got over the rites of Svaha, succeeds by the help of tranquility alone in attaining to that which is free from pairs of opposites, which is eternal, and which is shom of qualities.

Renouncing all action, good or bad, developed from qualities, and casting off both truth and falschood, a creature, forsooth, becomes liberated.

Having the unmanifest for the seed of its origin, with the understanding for its trunk, with the great principle of egoism for its collection of boughs, with the senses for the cavities of its little sprouts, with the (five) great elements for its large branches, the objects of the senses for this smaller branches, with leaves that are ever present, with flowers that always embellish it, and with fruits both agreeable and disagreeable always produced, is the eternal tree of Brahma which forins the support of all creatures. Cutting and piercing that tree with knowledge of truth as the sword, the wise man, abandoning the fetters which are made of attachment and which cause birth, decrepitude, and death, and freeing himself from mineness and egoism, forsooth, becomes liberated.

These are the two birds, which are immutable, which are friends, and which should be known as unintelligent. That other who is different from these two is called the Intelligent.

When the inner self, which is shorn of knowledge of nature, which is (as it were) unintelligent, becomes conversant with that which is above nature, then, understanding the Kshetra, and gifted with an intelligence that is above all qualities and apprehends everything, becoming released from all sins.