Knowing that this body, that is endued with sixteen possessions, is the result of the quality of goodness, understanding fully the nature of the physical organs and the consciousness that lives within it, recognising the one existent Being that lives in the body, viz., the Soul, which stands aloof from every physical concern which is affected by no sin, realising the nature of that second object, viz., the acts of persons attached to the objects of the senses, understanding also the nature of the senses and the sensual objects which have their refuge in the Soul, appreciating the difficulty of Liberation and the scriptures describing it, knowing fully the nature of the vital airs called Prana, Apana, Samana, Vyana, and Udana, as also the two other breaths, viz., the one going downward and the other going upward, indeed, knowing those seven vital airs ordained to perform seven different functions, ascertaining the nature of the Patriarchs and the Rishis and the numberless high paths, of virtue of righteousness, and the seven Rishis and the innumerable royal Rishis, scorcher of enemies, and the great celestial Rishis and, the other twice-born Rishis effulgent like the Sun, seeing all these losing their power in course of many long ages, O king, hearing of the destruction of even of all the powerful beings in the universe, understanding also the inauspicious end that is got, O king, by creatures of sinful deeds, and the miseries endured by those that fall into the river Vaitarni in the kingdom of Yama, and the inauspicious wanderings of creatures through various wombs, and the nature of their residence in the filthy uterus in the midst of blood and water and phlegm and urine and faeces, all of had smell, and then in bodies that originate from the union of blood and the vital seed, of marrow and sinews, full of hundreds of nerves and arteries and forining an impure palace of nine doors, understanding also what is for his well-being, what those various combinations are which produce good, seeing the abominable conduct of creatures whose natures characterised by Darkness, Goodness or Ignorance, O chief of Bharata's race, conduct that is censured, in view of its incapacity to acquire Liberation by the followers of the Sankhya doctrine who understand fully the Soul, seeing the swallowing up of the Moon and the Sun by Rahu, the falling of stars from their fixed positions and the diversions of constellations from their orbits, knowing the separation of all united objects, and the diabolical conduct of creatures in devouring one another, seeing the absence of all intelligence in the infancy of human beings and the deterioration and destruction of the body, marking the little attachment creatures have to the quality of Goodness account of their being overwhelmed by anger and stupefaction, seeing Own are on also only one among thousands of human beings determined to struggle after the acquisition of Liberation, understanding the difficulty of acquiring Liberation according to what is mentioned in the scriptures, marking the hankering that creatures shew for all unattained objects and their comparative indifference to all objects that have been acquired, marking the wickedness that proceeds from all objects of the senses, O king, and the repulsive bodies, O son of Kunti, of dead persons, and the residence, always fraught with sorrow, of human beings, O Bharata, in houses, knowing the end of those terrible and degraded men who become guilty of killing Brahmanas, and of those wicked Brahmanas who are given to the drinking of alcohol, and the equally sad end of those who visit the wives of their preceptors, and of those men, O Yudhisthira, who do not properly respect their mothers, as also of those who have no reverence and worship to offer to the gods, understanding also, with the help of that knowledge, the end that befalls all perpetrators of wicked deeds, and the various ends that befall those who have taken birth among the intermediate orders, ascertaining the various declarations of the Vedas, the courses of seasons, the fading of years, of months, of fortnights, and of days, seeing directly the waxing and the waning of the Moon, seeing the rising and the ebbing of the seas, and the decrease of wealth and its increase once more, and, the separation of united objects, the lapse of cycles, the destruction of mountains, the drying up of rivers, the deterioration of the several orders and the end also of that deterioration taking place repeatedly, seeing the birthi, decrepitude, death, and sorrows of creatures, knowing truly the faults relating to the body and the sorrows which human beings suffer from, and the changes to which the bodies of creatures are subject, and understanding all the faults which attach to their own souls, and also all the inauspicious faults that attach to their own bodied.