bhadro yathāśvaḥ kaśayābhitāḍita hy ātāpinaḥ saṃvijitāś careta |
śrāddhas tathā śīlaguṇair upetaḥ samāhito dharmaviniścayajñaḥ |
sampannavidyā caraṇaḥ pratismṛtas tāyī sa sarvaṃ prajahāti duhkham |19,2|
2. If a good horse is struck with a whip, he is frightened and exerts himself with all his strength; so likewise when one is full of faith, morality, and meditation, having never aught to do with the phenomenal world, having knowledge and (observing) the fundamental (rules): thus goaded on he casts away every particle of misery.