Janaka said:

The tranquility of consciousness
that nothing else exist is rare,
even on that one that wears nothing but
a loin-cloth. Therefore giving up
renunciation and acceptance, I live happily. 13.1

Sometime there is distress due to the body,
sometime due to the tongue is fatigued,
sometime due to the mind is tired.
forgoing this goals in life, I live happily. 13.2

  Fully realizing that The Self is not acting
whenever I do use the body's senses,
I do whatever presents itself to be done and
so I live happily. (*) 13.3

   Note:   a body has been given to you,
   in which you will remain,
   in a symbiotic relationship
   until it crumbles.
   you are the witness of a process,
   one that will teach you,
   what love is,
   a process that will give you
   the meaning of hunger,
   a process that will show you
   what hatred is capable of.
   Given you are not those emotions.

The Yogins who are attached to the body
insist upon action or inaction.
myself owning to the absence of
association and dissociation, happily live. 13.4

No good or evil accrues to me by
staying, going, or sleeping.
So whether I stay, go, or sleep,
I live happily. 13.5
I do not lose by sleeping, nor gain by striving
So by forgoing loss and elation, I live happily. 13.6

Observing the inconstancy of pleasure and pain
under different circumstances,
I have renounced good and evil, and happily live. 13.7

XIII   Happiness.
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