5.8 And desiring to reach, by mental means, unclutteredness, He warded off the friends who had been following him. With leaves rustling agreeably all around, He found a solitary spot at the foot of a rose-apple tree. 5.9 Sitting at that place of purity, On verdant ground -- grass shimmering like cat's-eye -- He contemplated the origin and demise of living things, And hit upon the path of stillness of the mind. 5.10 As instantly his mind was able to right itself, So also he was set free from physical liabilities, such as desire for objects of the senses. He experienced, alongside intellectual doubt and hesitation, a state of calm: This is the first realisation, a freedom of sorts from energetic leaks. 5.11 What he realized next, however, springing out from discrimination, Was the balanced state of mind, which is the deepest joy and happiness. Upon this very state, from that time onward, his mind was set -- And with this mind he observed the course of the world, plainly.