Chapter 10 – Desires are the Bondage

The Seer explains further to the Seeker:

Having ignored all desires whether good or bad;

Also ignore religious rituals done for such desires. 10.1

Just closely watch your wife, children, friends, house and

other wealth for three or five days continuously;

You will find them moving just like a dream or a drama.  10.2

Wherever your desires are your world is also there;

Be desireless with long practice of detachment and

Become Happy. 10.3

Your only bondage is your desires

Their end is called freedom;

Just becoming desireless brings

you repeated satisfaction. 10.4 

You alone are alive and pure

This world is false and sleepy

Your ignorance too is meaningless

What else you want to know? 10.5

A wishful person like you have gained and lost

this body, power, pleasures, children, ladies

so many times in so many lives. 10.6

Have you not had enough of wealth,

entertainment and even good works ?

Even these have not satisfied your mind

in this forest like complicated world. 10.7

Have you not done enough of painful hard work

with your body, mind and speech ?

Come on ! Atleast now relax, take some rest. 10.8

End of Chapter 10