Their senses always follow after them. It is on account of this ignorance that death has received its name. Those who desire the fruits of action, when the time comes to enjoy those fruits, depart for heaven, leaving their bodies behind. Consequently, they cannot escape death. Embodied beings, being unable to attain the knowledge of Brahman and being bound by their attachment to earthly pleasures, are compelled to remain within the cycle of rebirth, moving upward, downward, and round about. The sole natural inclination of man toward pursuits that are unreal is the cause of the senses being led into delusion. The soul, constantly given over to the pursuit of unreal objects, remembering only what it is always occupied with, cherishes nothing but the earthly pleasures that surround it. Desire for enjoyment is the first thing that kills men. Lust and anger soon follow after it. These three — the craving for enjoyment, lust, and anger — lead foolish men to death. But those who have conquered their own souls succeed, through self-restraint, in escaping death. He who has conquered his soul, not allowing himself to be roused by ambitious desire, overcomes these three, regarding them as worthless, by means of self-knowledge. Ignorance, having taken the form of Yama, cannot devour that learned man who has thus mastered his desires. The man who follows his desires perishes together with them. But he who can renounce his desires will surely be able to drive away all sorrow. Desire is indeed ignorance, darkness, and hell for all beings, for, yielding to it, they lose their reason. Just as intoxicated men, walking along the road, stagger into ruts and pits, so too men under the sway of desire, led astray by deceptive pleasures, rush headlong toward their ruin.