361 The wise declare, through all the days, to every living thing.
That ceaseless round of birth from seed of strong desire doth spring.
Meaning of the Quote : (The wise) say that the seed, which produces unceasing births, at all times, to all creatures, is desire.

362 If desire you feel, freedom from changing birth require!
'I' will come, if you desire to 'scape, set free from all desire.
Meaning of the Quote : If anything be desired, freedom from births should be desired; that (freedom from births) will be attained by desiring to be without desire.

363 No glorious wealth is here like freedom from desire;
To bliss like this not even there can soul aspire.
Meaning of the Quote : There is in this world no excellence equal to freedom from desire; and even in that world, there is nothing like it.

364 Desire's decease as purity men know;
That, too, from yearning search for truth will grow.
Meaning of the Quote : Purity (of mind) consists in freedom from desire; and that (freedom from desire) is the fruit of the love of truth.

365 Men freed from bonds of strong desire are free;
None other share such perfect liberty.
Meaning of the Quote : They are said to be free (from future birth) who are freed from desire; all others (who, whatever else they may be free from, are not freed from desire) are not thus free.

366 Desire each soul beguiles;
True virtue dreads its wiles.
Meaning of the Quote : It is the chief duty of (an ascetic) to watch against desire with (jealous) fear; for it has power to deceive (and destroy) him.

367 Who thoroughly rids his life of passion-prompted deed,
Deeds of unfailing worth shall do, which, as he plans, succeed.
Meaning of the Quote : If a man thoroughly cut off all desire, the deeds, which confer immortality, will come to him, in the path in which he seeks them.

368 Affliction is not known where no desires abide;
Where these are, endless rises sorrow's tide.
Meaning of the Quote : There is no sorrow to those who are without desire; but where that is, (sorrow) will incessantly come, more and more.

369 When dies away desire, that woe of woes
Ev'n here the soul unceasing rapture knows.
Meaning of the Quote : Even while in this body, joy will never depart (from the mind, in which) desire, that sorrow of sorrows, has been destroyed.

370 Drive from thy soul desire insatiate;
Straight'way is gained the moveless blissful state.
Meaning of the Quote : The removal of desire, whose nature it is never to be satisfied, will immediately confer a nature that can never be changed.