16.7 As long as there is desire— which is the absence of discrimination— there will be attachment and non-attachment. This is the cause of the world. 16.8
Indulgence creates attachment. Aversion creates abstinence. Like a child, the sage is free of both and thus lives on as a child. 16.9
One who is attached to the world
thinks renouncing it will relieve his misery. One who is attached to nothing is free
and does not feel miserable
even in the world. 16.10
He who claims liberation as his own, as an attainment of a person, is neither enlightened nor a seeker. He suffers his own misery. 16.11 Though Hara, Hari
or the lotus-born Brahma himself instruct you, until you know nothing you will never know Self.