Comprehending with the help of knowledge that all objects exist with faults, with which human leings, Pishachas, Rakshasas, Yakshas, snakes, Gandharvas, and Pitris and those who are wandering in the intermediate orders of being, and great birds, and the Maruts and royal sages and regenerate sages and Asuras and V shvedevas and the celestial Rishis and Yogins invested with supreme power and the Prajapatis and Brahman himself are engaged, and understanding truly what the highest limit of a man's life in this world, and perceiving also the great-truth, O foremost of orator, about what is called happiness here, and having a perfect knowledge of what the miseries are that befall when the hour comes all those who are concerned with (transitory) objects, and knowing full well the miseries of those who have fallen into the intermediate orders of being and of those who have sunk into hell, perceiving all the merits and all the shortcomings of heaven, O Bharata, and all the demerits of the declarations of the Vedas and all the excellencies thereof, recognising the faults and merits of the Yoga and the Sankhya systems of philosophy, realizing also that the quality of Goodness has ten properties, that of Darkness has nine, and that of Ignorance has eight, that the Understanding has seven properties, the Mind has six, and Ether has five, and once more conceiving that the Understanding has four properties and Ignorance has three, and Darkness has two and Goodness has one, and truly undertaking the path that is followed by all objects when destruction befalls them and what the course is of self-knowledge, the Sankhyas, endued with knowledge and experience and exalted by their perceptions of causes, and acquiring thorough auspiciousness, attain to the happiness of Liberation like the rays of the Sun, or the Wind, taking refuge in Ether.
ज्ञानेन परिसंख्याय सदोषान् विषयान् नृप। मानुषान् दुर्जयान् कृत्स्नान् पैशाचान् विषयांस्तथा॥ राक्षसान् विषयान् ज्ञात्वा यक्षाणां विषयांस्तथा। विषयानौरगान् ज्ञात्वा गान्धर्वविषयांस्तथा॥ पितॄणां विषयान् ज्ञात्वा तिर्यक्षु चरतां नृप। सुपर्णविषयान् ज्ञात्वा मरुतां विषयांस्तथा।॥ राजर्षिविषयान् ज्ञात्वा ब्रह्मर्षिविषयांस्तथा। आसुरान् विषयान् ज्ञात्वा वैश्वदेवांस्तथैव च॥ देवर्षिविषयान् ज्ञात्वा योगानामपि चेश्वरान्। प्रजापतीनां विषयान् ब्रह्मणो विषयांस्तथा॥ आयुषश्च परं कालं लोके विज्ञाय तत्त्वतः। सुखस्य च परं तत्त्वं विज्ञाय वदतां वर॥ प्राप्ते काले च यद् दुःखं सततं विषयैषिणाम्। तिर्यक्षु पततां दुःखं पततां नरके च यत्॥ स्वर्गस्य च गुणान् कृत्स्नान् दोषान् सर्वांश्च भारत। वेदवादेऽपि ये दोषा गुणा ये चापि वैदिकाः॥ ज्ञानयोगे च ये दोषा गुणा योगे च ये नृप। सांख्यज्ञाने च ये दोषास्तथैव च गुणा नृप॥ सत्त्वं दशगुणं ज्ञात्वा रजो नवगुणं तथा। तमश्चाष्टगुणं ज्ञात्वा बुद्धिं सप्तगुणां तथा॥ षड्गुणं च मनो ज्ञात्वा नभः पञ्चगुणं तथा। बुद्धिं चतुर्गुणां ज्ञात्वा तमश्च त्रिगुणं तथा॥ द्विगुणं च रजो ज्ञात्वा सत्त्वमेकगुणं पुनः। मार्ग विज्ञाय तत्त्वेन प्रलये प्रेक्षणे तथा॥ ज्ञानविज्ञानसंपन्नाः कारनैर्भाविताः शुभाः। प्राप्नुवन्ति शुभं मोक्षं सूक्ष्मा इव नभः परम्॥