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इत्थं कस्य कृते कृतः स विधिना कीदृक् पदं संपदां |
29. The felicity of those, whom contentment unceasingly makes happy, is not interrupted, while the cravings of those of greedy and con- founded minds are never quenched. Such being the case, for whom did the Creator create the Meru, representing inconceivable wealth, but confining to itself the glorious potency of its gold ? I would not covet it.
[कस्य कृते कृतः etc. The idea is that Meru, the (fabled} mountain of gold, serves no useful purpose to anybody and so I would not go in for it (न मे रोचते) : because those that are contented feel quite happy without possessing it, and those that hanker after wealth feel never satisfied howsoever big might be their acquisitions स्वात्मन्येव समाप्तहेममहिमा– Its gold serves only to glorify itself, but not satisfy the greedy.]
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भिक्षाहारमदैन्यमप्रतिसुखं भीतिच्छिदं सर्वतो |
30. The great Yogis describe food which begging brings as follows : it does not humiliate (vide Verse No . 23) ; it is an independent pleasure (i.e. not dependent on the pleasure of
