Stand firm therefore.
And do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
Self slavery lies in the mind’s inner core.
It is with ourselves that we need to show the greatest bravery.

Suffering comes not only from wanting too much, denying ourselves or not caring.
Suffering comes from a death fear.
We cope with temporary setbacks, what troubles us is that death is unsparing.
And it is for ourselves that we shed a tear.

But death is pain free annihilation.
Or death is glorious new life.
We should not fear the body’s extermination.
For death is the end either way of all strife.

There is one who came to free us from the yoke of slavery.
We just need to free ourselves from life’s vain glory.