Fetters

Let us boast of nothing but an intelligent friend — and whoever has found kindness a fetter is fettered by it — and I have seen nothing like humility for height — and it was as though it, and as though they, were dreams — God is One and loves the one alone, so be alone.

The fetters belonging to Varuṇa and those belonging to Nirṛti, the fetters of trees and of plants, those earthly ones that have arisen from the earth — may they not harm you;

The fetters that are in the atmosphere, those that are in the sky, those scattered throughout food that bind in manifold ways, those that have arisen from among cattle — may they not harm you;

The human bond with which men curse, or the priestly rite of the fathers which one undertakes — Varuṇa who comes as the proximate one, may he not harm you;

And he bound his hands with gyves, and is bringing that chieftain once so prosperous as a trophy hither, whose fortune now doth preach a lesson, clear as day, to all the sons of men, that none should envy him, who seems to thrive, until they see his death;