हिन्दी
(Of actions) of which the motives are visible and invisible, the motive, where no visible (motive) exists, (tends) to exaltation.
Ablution, fast, brahmacarya, residence in the family of the preceptor, life of retirement in the forest, sacrifice, gift, oblation, directions, constellations, seasons, and religious observances conduce to invisible fruit.
The observance of the four Āśramas (has been already mentioned). Misbeliefs and disbeliefs as well as beliefs are also (sources of adṛṣṭa or dharma and adharma).
Upadhā or Impurity (denotes) impurity of emotion, or of the soul; anupadhā (denotes) purity.
The pure is that which possesses prescribed Colour, Taste, Smell and Touch, and is sprinkled with water along with the recitation of sacred hymns, and also without it, or is sprinkled with water both with pronation and with supination.
Impure — such is the form of the negation of the pure.
(It is) also something else.
To the unrestrained, exaltation does not accrue from eating what is pure, inasmuch as there is an absence of self-restraint; and it accrues, (where there is self-restraint), inasmuch as self-restraint is a different thing (from eating).
(Self-restraint alone is not the cause of exaltation), for there is non-existence (of exaltation), where (the eating of pure food) does not exist.
From Pleasure (arises) Desire.
(Desire and Aversion arise) also through habituation to that.
(Desire and Aversion arise) from adṛṣṭam also.
(Desire and Aversion arise) also from racial distinctions.
Application to dharma and adharma has for its antecedents Desire and Aversion.
Conjunction (of soul with body, sense, and life), produced by them (i.e., dharma and adharma), (is called birth); Disjunction (of body and mind, produced by them, is called death).
(It has been) declared that the actions of the soul taking place, salvation (results).
