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.