Śukadeva said: You have spoken correctly, but in this world intelligent people do not at all put faith in the unsteady mind, which is like a degraded, cunning person. You have spoken correctly. The mystic powers should not give problems. However, intelligent persons (eke) never put faith in the mind. Why? The mind at every moment takes on a new condition. Becoming pure, the mind immediately becomes impure. The degraded (kirāta), cunning person, after showing friendship, kills the trusting person after robbing him. After showing its purity, with power not to be influenced by lust and anger, one day the mind makes the sādhaka who has become lax in effort to fall down by a sudden appearance of lust or anger. Though the low-born person constantly studies t dharma and shows good character, and is trusted even in the treasury, he sometimes commits theft since his nature is difficult to give up. Similarly, though one trusts the mind which has been purified by sense control and mind control and has become fixed in hearing and meditation, the uncontrolled mind becomes absorbed in sinful object when given the opportunity, and takes away discriminating knowledge.