O Rāma, senses are invincible.  They are like an arrogant elephant of sinful deeds in the empire of great hells.  They are equipped with sharp arrows of avarice and greed.

These senses are ungrateful.  They destroy even the body that harbours them.  They are caskets of evil deeds.  These senses are invincible.

Having acquired the refuge of this corporeal body, they feed like vultures avariciously on the flesh of objects.  These vultures swoop with an eagle-eye on the worldly works that are proper and improper.

If these evil senses are held together by strings of discrimination, members of the body cannot be cut asunder like a strong rope which holds an elephant (and thus peace of the individual will not be disturbed).

-6. One who possesses the wealth of discrimination in this city of Corporeal body will not be humbled by the foe of senses which indulge in pleasing sensuous objects.  Such a pleasure of victory over the clay-bound city of body cannot be obtained even by a king.

The joy of getting control over mind and to be the king of one’s own city of body is beyond that of being a king.  To seize the lowly servants called senses is to win over the foe of mind.

One of pure mind and heart will bloom like creepers in spring.  The arrogance of the mind and he would have conquered the foes of senses.

The pleasure tendencies will decline and vanish like lotuses in autumn.  The vāsanas of the mind and heart will gallop away like the demon in the night.

Mind can be overwhelmed and conquered by persevering practice of the principle of essential oneness (of all manifestation).

A servant is considered intelligent if he does with diligence what he is told.  A minister is considered to possess discrimination if he does the right and good things.  One who seizes and gains control of senses is thought of as one with discriminating intelligence.  A lady is considered good by love and affection.  One who looks after his children is considered to be a good father.

 A mind his noble beliefs is the best friend of man.  Such a mind perceives itself.  It makes the truths laid out in scriptures to be internally experienced.

This father of mind offers (to its possessor) the accomplishment of the Supreme State.  Discarding itself (its normal nature) it offers proper perceptions, good enlightenment, firmness and the enjoyment of the Supreme State.

This mind-diamond shines radiantly in the heart in a delightful manner.

It axes down the tree of incarnations – This minister-mind motivates good works.  This raw mind-diamond, O Rāma, is stained by varieties of mud.  It should be washed clean by the waters of discrimination.

-17. O Rāma, do not slip into the terrible and calamitous fields of world like an unintelligent person.  Do not fall into the grip of the wild delusion of the worldly things which are full of calamitous confusions.

-19. Take refuge in discrimination and seek the truth.  Conquer the senses and cross the oceans of ‘samsara’.  This body is unreal and so are joys and sorrows.