Comprehending with the help of knowledge that all objects exist with faults, with which human leings, Pishachas, Rakshasas, Yakshas, snakes, Gandharvas, and Pitris and those who are wandering in the intermediate orders of being, and great birds, and the Maruts and royal sages and regenerate sages and Asuras and V shvedevas and the celestial Rishis and Yogins invested with supreme power and the Prajapatis and Brahman himself are engaged, and understanding truly what the highest limit of a man's life in this world, and perceiving also the great-truth, O foremost of orator, about what is called happiness here, and having a perfect knowledge of what the miseries are that befall when the hour comes all those who are concerned with (transitory) objects, and knowing full well the miseries of those who have fallen into the intermediate orders of being and of those who have sunk into hell, perceiving all the merits and all the shortcomings of heaven, O Bharata, and all the demerits of the declarations of the Vedas and all the excellencies thereof, recognising the faults and merits of the Yoga and the Sankhya systems of philosophy, realizing also that the quality of Goodness has ten properties, that of Darkness has nine, and that of Ignorance has eight, that the Understanding has seven properties, the Mind has six, and Ether has five, and once more conceiving that the Understanding has four properties and Ignorance has three, and Darkness has two and Goodness has one, and truly undertaking the path that is followed by all objects when destruction befalls them and what the course is of self-knowledge, the Sankhyas, endued with knowledge and experience and exalted by their perceptions of causes, and acquiring thorough auspiciousness, attain to the happiness of Liberation like the rays of the Sun, or the Wind, taking refuge in Ether.