Sacrifice your body to your Creator. In return, you will receive a great reward. For if you do not sacrifice it, it will either vanish into thin air or, since it belongs to Him, it will return to Him.

If you rely on your body, you will fall into nothingness. For existence can only be found by abandoning the body. Likewise, if you are inclined to value your body, only a single point of it will remain in your hand. Your entire body, in all its four aspects, will remain in nothingness. But if you cast aside even that point, your body will remain completely filled with light.

Another matter is the pleasures of the world. This depends on fate. Seeking them leads to stagnation. And because of their rapid transience, a sensible person does not take them to heart or value them.

Whatever the ultimate outcome of the world, it is preferable to abandon its pleasures. For the ultimate outcome is either happiness, and happiness is achieved by abandoning these fleeting pleasures. Or it is wickedness. Can a man awaiting death and execution find pleasure and delight in the adornment and embellishment of the gallows?

For a man who, driven by disbelief, imagines the end of his worldly life to be absolute nothingness, abandoning pleasures is preferable. Because the agonizing pains of absolute nothingness, which occur with the disappearance of those pleasures, are felt every moment. Such pleasures cannot overcome those pains.