As long as you trust to your lock of hair and your
sacred thread, you are the slave of Vedic
texts. If you fail to keep the rules they prescribe,
you will fall into sin and go down to hell. Astute
and wise though you may be, take care you keep
the rules in all their integrity. Break off with the
lock and thread, then nothing more will encumber
you. Tuka says, Only when you behave as though
the world were strange to you, only then will
signs of Brahma come to light in you.
sacred thread, you are the slave of Vedic
texts. If you fail to keep the rules they prescribe,
you will fall into sin and go down to hell. Astute
and wise though you may be, take care you keep
the rules in all their integrity. Break off with the
lock and thread, then nothing more will encumber
you. Tuka says, Only when you behave as though
the world were strange to you, only then will
signs of Brahma come to light in you.