36. Truth-Conciousness

Inglorious births are produced by the confusion (of mind) which considers those things to be real which are not real.

A clear, undimmed vision of things will deliver its possessors from the darkness of future births, and confer the felicity (of heaven).

Heaven is nearer than earth to those men of purified minds who are freed from from doubt.

Even those who have all the knowledge which can be attained by the five senses, will derive no benefit from it, if they are without a knowledge of the true nature of things.

(True) knowledge is the perception concerning every thing of whatever kind, that that thing is the true thing.

They, who in this birth have learned to know the True Being, enter the road which returns not into this world.

Let it not be thought that there is another birth for him whose mind having thoroughly considered (all it has been taught) has known the True Being.

True knowledge consists in the removal of ignorance; which is (the cause of) births, and the perception of the True Being who is (the bestower of) heaven.

He who so lives as to know Him who is the support of all things and abandon all desire, will be freed from the evils which would otherwise cleave to him and destroy (his efforts after absorption).

If the very names of these three things, desire, anger, and confusion of mind, be destroyed, then will also perish the evils (which flow from them).