True happiness comes not from contact-born pleasures, but from self-control. The serenity of mind that is attained by the practice of self-control works such a change that it may be said that thereby the soul is liberated even though it is still imprisoned in the flesh.
The pleasures that are contact-born become, Indeed, wombs of pain Such pleasures have beginning and ending; the wise does not rejoice in them.
V-22
He is a happy man and a Yogi who learns to withstand here on earth, ere he be liberated from the body, the force of desire and anger.
V-23
He whose Pleasure is within himself, who derives joy within himself, who has a shining light within himself, that Yogi attains final liberation and is absorbed in Brahma.
V-24
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