Janaka said:
1. First I relinquished physical action, then immoderate speech and thought. Now I abide in peace.
2. Having relinquished all attachment to sound and other objects of sense, and also the Self, as Self is beyond perception (and conception), I now remain at peace, my mind being freed from agitation and distraction.
3. Concentration is needed when the mind is distracted by false identification. Realizing this, I abide in peace.
4. O Sage! I am not concerned with what is to be accepted and what is rejected. I experience neither joy nor sorrow. Thus do I abide.
5. I am as indifferent to the presence of the four stages of life as I am to their absence. Meditation, and renunciation of the contents of my mind, are likewise not for me. This is the state in which I abide.
6. Bother performance and cessation of action are notions born of nescience. Knowing this, thus do I abide.
7. To attempt to think of the Self, which is beyond the range of thought, is only to create a new thought. Abandoning such a thought, I abide in peace.
8. Blessed is he who is established in this peace. Such a man has realized his own nature.