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f interested in religious disquisitions. जनरञ्जकः जनं रञ्जयति इति ) one pleasing the people. आत्मरले in the true nature of self. सुखश: ( सुखं जानाति इति ) one realising pleasure. चिन्तामणि ( चिन्ति gun) philosopher's stone.
So long as one (an ascetic) does not realise the true nature of self, he is interested in religious disquisitions, and in propitiating the minds of the people. Who wanders from people to people proclaiming his possession of the best philosopher's stone?
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Notes:-This verse truth confirms the embodied in the previous verse. As long as, thoughts and actions are directed towards personal and selfish ends, they (preceptors) being thoroughly controlled by mind and senses, indulge in religious disquisitions, for establishing their superiority in the eyes of the people. But when' their minds, purified by altruistic thoughts and actions and by constant practising of genuine renunciation, progress further towards he realisation of self, the philosophical disputes,
