OR THE HUNDRED VERSES ON RENUNCIATION" 37
��61. Why, oh heart, dost thou set thyself on winning good graces, so hard to secure, by daily propitiating other men's minds in vari- ous ways? When, being serene inwardly and free from society, thou hast gems of thought rising up of themselves ( i. e. when desires do not induce your thinking ), what objects mere wish ( even ) would not bring tothee?
The idea would come out more clearly, if we read, as many have done, IfcHI^Morl an( *
��first expression would then mean ' a ( chaotic ) mass of troubles ', instead of * hard to secure ', and the verb frofir would have its primary sense of 'entering into/ *1 ^$
��would then mean " having the virtue of a philoso- pher's stone developed of itself in thee," i. e. one of the eight Yogic powers, ( %fixi' [ ftfar&: we prefer to render as 'free from the company of others/ a state opposed to what is implied when we have to depend on others for gratifying our desires. ]
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