16.
The Chapter on Love
209.
Having abandoned the good, grasping at the dear, one envies those devoted to self-development.
210.
Not seeing the dear is suffering, and so is seeing the not dear.
211.
Mental knots are not found in those for whom there is nothing dear or not dear.
212.
For one who is free from the dear, there is no sorrow, whence fear?
213.
For one who is free from love, there is no sorrow, whence fear?
214.
For one who is free from delight, there is no sorrow, whence fear?
215.
For one who is free from sensuality, there is no sorrow, whence fear?
216.
For one who is free from craving, there is no sorrow, whence fear?
217.
Doing one's own work, that one people hold dear.
218.
And with consciousness unbound to sensual pleasures, is called an upstream-goer.
219.
Relatives, friends and companions delight in his arrival.
220.
Merits receive him, like relatives a dear one who has arrived.
The Chapter on the Dear is concluded as sixteenth.