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“The thought manifests the word;
The word manifests the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let them spring forth from love
Born out of compassion for all beings.
As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.”
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The word manifests the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let them spring forth from love
Born out of compassion for all beings.
As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.”
―
“Watchfulness is the path of immortality:
Unwatchfulness is the path of death.
Those who are watchful never die:
Those who do not watch are already as dead.
Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth,
Those who are wise and ever watchful,
They feel the joy of watchfulness,
The joy of the path of the great.
And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation
With ever living power advance on the path,
They in the end reach NIRVANA,
The peace supreme and infinite joy.
~ Buddha”
― The Dhammapada
Unwatchfulness is the path of death.
Those who are watchful never die:
Those who do not watch are already as dead.
Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth,
Those who are wise and ever watchful,
They feel the joy of watchfulness,
The joy of the path of the great.
And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation
With ever living power advance on the path,
They in the end reach NIRVANA,
The peace supreme and infinite joy.
~ Buddha”
― The Dhammapada
“Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth.”
― Buddhist Scriptures
― Buddhist Scriptures
“For when the mind becomes bound to a passion of the wandering senses, this passion carries away man's wisdom, even as the wind drives a vessel on the waves.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“This is the great adventure and the great discovery. No one can do it for us. Until we have reached the top of the mountain we cannot see in full glory the view that lies beyond; but glimpses of light illumine our path to the mountain.
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“Fools, their wisdom weak,
are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
bitter fruit.”
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are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
bitter fruit.”
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“Whence this lifeless dejection, Arjuna, in this hour, the hour of trial? Strong men know not despair, Arjuna, for this wins neither heaven nor earth.
Fall not into degrading weakness, for this becomes not a man who is a man. Throw off this ignoble discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it.”
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Fall not into degrading weakness, for this becomes not a man who is a man. Throw off this ignoble discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it.”
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“When a fool does evil work, he forgets that he is lighting a fire wherein he must burn one day.”
― The Dhammapada
― The Dhammapada
“There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“Of what use are words of wisdom to the man who is unwise?
Of what use is a lamp to a man who is blind?
Hear the essence of thousands of sacred books: to help others is virtue: to hurt others is sin.
A man rises or goes down by his own actions: like the builder of a wall, or the digger of a well.
The narrow-minded man thinks and says: 'This man is one of us; this one is not, he is a stranger. To the man of noble soul the whole of mankind is but one family.
- quoted in the introduction, ascribed to the Hitopadesa”
― The Dhammapada
Of what use is a lamp to a man who is blind?
Hear the essence of thousands of sacred books: to help others is virtue: to hurt others is sin.
A man rises or goes down by his own actions: like the builder of a wall, or the digger of a well.
The narrow-minded man thinks and says: 'This man is one of us; this one is not, he is a stranger. To the man of noble soul the whole of mankind is but one family.
- quoted in the introduction, ascribed to the Hitopadesa”
― The Dhammapada
“Any interest in Yoga, in miracles or psychic powers, not based on that humbleness of the soul which is the beginning and the end of all true spiritual light and love is at its best something of scientific interest, and at its worst it is that pride and desire for power which are the surest signs of spiritual darkness.
Let us take an interesting psychological experiment: thought-transmission or thought-reading [.......] The person in deep sleep reads accurately what is written, and when the same experiment is repeated with success several times with different words and numbers not the slightest doubt is left in the mind of the operator that thought-transmission, or thought-reading, is a fact. And when he hears long arguments to the contrary by those who of course have not practised the experiment he cannot but smile.
Well, what does the experiment prove? Only that, to quote Hamlet again,
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
But supposing that after this experiment we could attain all the psychic powers promised in Yoga, does this mean that we have advanced a single step on the spiritual path? Of course not. We have learnt something of amazing psychological interest; but we have not advanced on the path of love. We may even have gone backwards if the slightest pride or self-satisfaction has infected our mind. Those who rely on physical miracles to prove the truth of spiritual things forget the ever-present miracle of the universe and of our own lives. The lover of the physical miracle is in fact a materialist: instead of making material things spiritual, as the poet or the spiritual man does, he simply makes spiritual things material, and this is the source of all idolatry and superstition. Leaving aside the question that matter and spirit may simply be 'different modes, or degrees in perfection, of a common substractum ', as Coleridge says, and the Upanishads suggest, there is the far greater question that in everything spiritual there is an element of beauty which is truth, and which we find in faith, but which is lacking in fanaticism and superstition.”
― The Upanishads
Let us take an interesting psychological experiment: thought-transmission or thought-reading [.......] The person in deep sleep reads accurately what is written, and when the same experiment is repeated with success several times with different words and numbers not the slightest doubt is left in the mind of the operator that thought-transmission, or thought-reading, is a fact. And when he hears long arguments to the contrary by those who of course have not practised the experiment he cannot but smile.
Well, what does the experiment prove? Only that, to quote Hamlet again,
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
But supposing that after this experiment we could attain all the psychic powers promised in Yoga, does this mean that we have advanced a single step on the spiritual path? Of course not. We have learnt something of amazing psychological interest; but we have not advanced on the path of love. We may even have gone backwards if the slightest pride or self-satisfaction has infected our mind. Those who rely on physical miracles to prove the truth of spiritual things forget the ever-present miracle of the universe and of our own lives. The lover of the physical miracle is in fact a materialist: instead of making material things spiritual, as the poet or the spiritual man does, he simply makes spiritual things material, and this is the source of all idolatry and superstition. Leaving aside the question that matter and spirit may simply be 'different modes, or degrees in perfection, of a common substractum ', as Coleridge says, and the Upanishads suggest, there is the far greater question that in everything spiritual there is an element of beauty which is truth, and which we find in faith, but which is lacking in fanaticism and superstition.”
― The Upanishads
“The finite in man longs for the Infinite. The love that moves the stars moves also the heart of man and a law of spiritual gravitation leads his soul to the Soul of the universe.”
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“What seems at first a cup of sorrow is found in the end immortal wine.”
― Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
― Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
“The radiance of eternal beauty shines over this vast universe and in moments of contemplation we can see the Eternal in things that pass away. This is the message of the great spiritual seers; and all poetry and art and beauty is only an infinite variation of this message.”
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“Self-knowledge has always been the theme of the Sages; and the Upanishads deal especially with the knowledge of the Self and also with the knowledge of God, because there is no difference between the Self and God. They are one and the same. That which comes out of the Infinite Whole must also be infinite; hence the Self is infinite. That is the ocean, we are the drops.”
― The Upanishads
― The Upanishads
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous,
and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then
the holy offerings lead him on the rays of the sun where
the Lord of all gods has his high dwelling.
But unsafe are the boats of sacrifice to go to the farthest
shore; unsafe are the eighteen books where the lower
actions are explained. The unwise who praise them as the
highest end go to old age and death again.
Abiding in the midst of ignorance, but thinking them-
selves wise and learned, fools aimlessly go hither and
thither, like blind led by the blind.
Wandering in the paths of unwisdom, 'We have attained
the end of life', think the foolish. Clouds of passion conceal
to them the beyond, and sad is their fall when the reward
of their pious actions has been enjoyed.
Imagining religious ritual and gifts of charity as the final
good, the unwise see not the Path supreme. Indeed they have
in high heaven the reward of their pious actions ; but thence
they fall and come to earth or even down to lower regions.
But those who in purity and faith live in the solitude of
the forest, who have wisdom and peace and long not for
earthly possessions, those in radiant purity pass through
the gates of the sun to the dwelling-place supreme where
the Spirit is in Eternity.”
― The Upanishads
and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then
the holy offerings lead him on the rays of the sun where
the Lord of all gods has his high dwelling.
But unsafe are the boats of sacrifice to go to the farthest
shore; unsafe are the eighteen books where the lower
actions are explained. The unwise who praise them as the
highest end go to old age and death again.
Abiding in the midst of ignorance, but thinking them-
selves wise and learned, fools aimlessly go hither and
thither, like blind led by the blind.
Wandering in the paths of unwisdom, 'We have attained
the end of life', think the foolish. Clouds of passion conceal
to them the beyond, and sad is their fall when the reward
of their pious actions has been enjoyed.
Imagining religious ritual and gifts of charity as the final
good, the unwise see not the Path supreme. Indeed they have
in high heaven the reward of their pious actions ; but thence
they fall and come to earth or even down to lower regions.
But those who in purity and faith live in the solitude of
the forest, who have wisdom and peace and long not for
earthly possessions, those in radiant purity pass through
the gates of the sun to the dwelling-place supreme where
the Spirit is in Eternity.”
― The Upanishads
“We must not divide our conception of the universe; for in dividing it, we have only fragmentary knowledge and we thus limit ourselves.”
― Upanishads
― Upanishads
“Aum.”
― The Upanishads
― The Upanishads
