Truly understanding qualities by the help of hundreds of qualities and faults by hundreds of faults, and various causes by hundreds of causes, determining that the world is like the froth of water, covered by hundreds of illusions flowing from Vishnu, like a painted place, and as unsubstantial as a reed, seeing it to be like a dark pit, or as unreal as bubbles of water, for the years that compose its age are as fleeting as bubbles, seeing it exposed to immediate destruction, bereft of happiness, having certain ruin for its end and from which it can never escape, sunk in Darkness and Ignorance and utterly helpless like an elephant sunk in mire,-noting all this-this the Sankhyas, O king, gifted with great wisdom, renouncing all affection arising from one's relations towards one's children, by the help, O king, of that extensive and all embracing knowledge which their system advocates, and cutting off quickly, with the weapon of knowledge and the bludgeon of penances, 0 Bharata, all inauspicious smell begotten of Darkness and all scents of a like nature originating from Ignorance and all auspicious scents arising from Goodness and all pleasures of the touch born of the same three qualities and attaching to the body, indeed, O Bharata, aided by the Yoga of knowledge, these Yatis crowned with success,-Cross the Ocean of life. That dreadful Ocean has sorrow for its waters. Anxiety and grief from its deep lakes. Disease and death are its huge alligators. The great fears that strike the heart at every step are its huge snakes.
गुणान् गुणशतैर्ज्ञात्वा दोषान् दोषशतैरपि। हेतून् हेतुशतैश्चित्रश्चित्रान् विज्ञाय तत्त्वतः॥ अपां फेनोपमं लोकं विष्णोर्मायाशतैर्वृतम्। चित्रभित्तिप्रतीकाशं नलसारमनर्थकम्॥ तमः श्रुभ्रनिभं दृष्ट्वा वर्षबुबुदसंनिभम्। नाशनायं सुखाद्धीनं नाशोत्तरमिहावशम्॥ रजस्तमसि सम्मग्नं पङ्के द्विपमिवावशम्। सांख्या राजन् महाप्राज्ञा स्त्यक्त्वा स्नेहं प्रजाकृतम्।।६१ ज्ञानयोगेन सांख्येन व्यापिना महता नृप। राजसानशुभान् गन्धांस्तामसांश्च तथाविधान्॥ पुण्यांश्च सात्त्विकान् मन्धान स्पर्शजान् देहसंश्रितान्। छित्त्वाऽऽशु ज्ञानशस्त्रेण तपोदण्डेन भारत॥ ततो दुःखोदकं घोरं चिन्ताशोकमहाह्रदम्। व्याधिमृत्युमहाग्राहं महाभयमहोरगम्॥