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                                                  ANGER SPOIL THE LIFE

         LET  A MAN LEAVE ANGER, LET HIM FORSAKE PRIDE, LET HIM OVERCOME ALL BONDAGE! NO SUFFERINGS BEFALL THE MAN WHO IS NOT ATTACHED TO NAME AND FORM, AND WHO CALLS NOTHING HIS OWN. HE WHO HOLDS BACK RISING ANGER LIKE A ROLLING CHARIOT, HIM I CALL A REAL DRIVER, OTHER PEOPLE ARE BUT HOLDING THE REINS. LET A MAN OVERCOME ANGER BY LOVE, LET HIM OVERCOME EVIL BY GOOD, LET HIM OVERCOME THE GREEDY BY LIBERALITY, THE LIAR BY TRUTH! SPEAK THE TRUTH, DO NOT YIELD TO ANGER, GIVE, IF THOU ART ASKED FOR LITTLE, BY THESE THREE STEPS THOU WILT GO NEAR THE GODS. THE SAGES WHO INJURE NOBODY, AND WHO ALWAYS CONTROL THEIR BODY, THEY WILL GO TO THE UNCHANGEABLE PLACE(NIRVANA) WHERE IF THEY HAVE GONE, THEY WILL SUFFER NO MORE. THOSE WHO ARE EVER WATCHFUL, WHO STUDY DAY AND NIGHT, AND WHO STIVE, AFTER NIRVANA, THEIR PASSIONS WILL COME TO AN END. THIS IS AN OLD SAYING, THEY BLAME HIM WHO SPEAKS MUCH, THEY ALSO BLAME HIM WHO SAYS LITTLE, THERE IS NO ONE ON EARTH WHO IS NOT BLAMED. THERE NEVER WAS, THERE NEVER WILL BE, NOR IS THERE NOW, A MAN WHO IS ALWAYS BLAMED, OR A MAN WHO IS ALWAYS PRAISED.

           BUT HE WHOM THOSE WHO DISCRIMINATE PRAISE CONTINUALLY DAY AFTER DAY, AS WITHOUT BLEMISH, WISE, RICH IN KNOWLEDGE AND VIRTUE, WHO WOULD DARE TO BLAME HIM, LIKE A COIN MADE OF GOLD FROM THE GAMBU RIVER? EVEN THE GODS PRAISE HIM, HE IS PRAISED EVEN BY BRAHMAN.

           BEWARE OF BODILY ANGER, AND CONTROL THY BODY! LEAVE THE SINS OF THE BODY, AND WITH THY BODY PRACTISE VIRTUE! BEWARE OF THE ANGER OF THE TONGUE, AND CONTROL THY TONGUE! LEAVE THE SINS OF THE TONGUE, AND PRACTISE VIRTUE WITH THY TONGUE!

           BEWARE OF THE ANGER OF THE MIND, AND CONTROL THY MIND! LEAVE THE SINS OF THE MIND, AND PRACTISE VIRTUE WITH THY MIND! THE WISE WHO CONTROL THEIR MIND, ARE INDEED WELL CONTROLLED.

                                                                      PLEASURE

                 HE WHO GIVES HIMSELF TO VANITY AND DOES NOT GIVE HIMSELF TO MEDITATION, FORGETTING THE REAL AIM OF LIFE AND GRASPING AT PLEASURE, WILL IN TIME EVERY HIM WHO HAS EXERTED HIMSELF IN MEDITATION. LET NO MAN EVER CLING TO WHAT IS PLEASANT, OR TO WHAT IS UNPLEASANT NOT TO SEE WHAT IS PLEASANT IS PAIN, AND IT IS PAIN TO SEE WHAT IS UNPLEASANT. LET, THEREFORE NO MAN LOVE ANYTHING, LOSS OF THE BELOVED IS EVIL, THOSE THOSE WHO LOVE NOTHING, AND HATE NOTHING, HAVE NO FETTERS. FROM PLEASURE COMES GRIEF, FROM PLEASURE COMES FEAR, HE WHO IS FREE FROM PLEASURE KNOWS NEITHER GRIEF NOR FEAR.

              FROM AFFECTION COMES GRIEF, FROM AFFECTION COMES FEAR, HE WHO IS FREE FROM AFFECTION KNOWS NEITHER GRIEF NO FEAR. FROM LUST COMES GRIEF, FROM LUST COMES FEAR, HE WHO IS FREE FROM LUST KNOWS NEITHER GRIEF NOR FEAR. FROM LOVE COMES GRIEF, FROM LOVE COMES FEAR, HE WHO IS FREE FROM LOVE KNOWS NEITHER GRIEF NOR FEAR. FROM GREED COMES GRIEF, FROM GREED COMES FROM FEAR, HE WHO IS FREE FROM GREED KNOWS NEITHER GRIEF NOR FEAR.

             HE WHO POSSESSES VIRTUE AND INTELLIGENCE, WHO IS JUST, SPEAKS THE TRUTH, AND DOES WHAT IS HIS OWN BUSINESS, HIM THE WORLD WILL HOLD DEAR. HE IN WHOM A DESIRE FOR THE INEFFABLE (NIRVANA) HAS SPRUNG UP, WHO IN HIS MIND IS SATISFIED, AND WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE NOT BEWILDERED BY LOVE, HE IS CALLED URDHVAMSROTAS.

               KINSMEN, FRIENDS, AND LOVERS SALUTE A MAN WHO HAS BEEN LONG AWAY, AND RETURNS SAFE FROM AFAR. IN LIKE MANNER HIS GOOD WORDS RECEIVE HIM WHO HAS DONE GOOD, AND HAS GONE FROM THIS WORLD TO THE OTHER-AS KINSMEN RECEIVE A FRIEND ON HIS RETURN.