एवं गुरूपासनयैकभक्त्या विद्याकुठारेण शितेन धीर: । विवृश्च्य जीवाशयमप्रमत्त: सम्पद्य चात्मानमथ त्यजास्त्रम् ॥ २४ ॥
evaṁ gurūpāsanayaika-bhaktyā vidyā-kuṭhāreṇa śitena dhīraḥ vivṛścya jīvāśayam apramattaḥ sampadya cātmānam atha tyajāstram
- evam
- thus (with the knowledge I have given you)
- guru
- of the spiritual master
- upāsanayā
- developed by worship
- eka
- unalloyed
- bhaktyā
- by loving devotional service
- vidyā
- of knowledge
- kuṭhāreṇa
- by the ax
- śitena
- sharp
- dhīraḥ
- one who is steady by knowledge
- vivṛścya
- cutting down
- jīva
- of the living entity
- āśayam
- the subtle body (filled with designations created by the three modes of material nature)
- apramattaḥ
- being very careful in spiritual life
- sampadya
- achieving
- ca
- and
- ātmānam
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- atha
- then
- tyaja
- you should give up
- astram
- the means by which you achieved perfection
With steady intelligence you should develop unalloyed devotional service by careful worship of the spiritual master, and with the sharpened ax of transcendental knowledge you should cut off the subtle material covering of the soul. Upon realizing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you should then give up that ax of analytic knowledge.