SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

                                                    RELATIONSHIPS

      AS THE EGOIC MODE OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND ALL THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURES THAT IT CREATED ENTER THE FINAL STAGE OF COLLAPSE, THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN REFLECT THE DEEP STATE OF CRISIS IN WHICH HUMANITY NOW FINDS ITSELF. AS HUMAN HAVE BECOME INCRESINGLY IDENTIFIED WITH THEIR MIND, RELATIONSHIPS ARE NOT ROOTED IN BEING AND SO TURN INTO A SOURCE OF PAIN AND BECOME DOMINATED BY PROBLEMS AND CONFLICT.

         MILLIONS ARE NOW LIVING ALONE OR AS SINGLE PARENTS, UNABLE TO ESTABLISH AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP OR UNWILLING TO REPEAT THE INSANE DRAMA OF PAST RELATIONSHIPS. OTHERS GO FROM ONE RELATIONSHIP TO ANOTHER, FROM ONE PLEASURE - AND - PAIN CYCLE TO ANOTHER, IN SEARCH OF THE EXCLUSIVE GOAL OF FULFILLMENT THRROUGH UNION WITH THE OPPOSITE ENERGY POLARITY. STILL OTHERS COMPROMISE AND CONTINUE TO BE TOGETHER IN A DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH NEGATIVITY PREVAILS, FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN OR SECURITY, THROUGH FORCE OF HABIT, FEAR OF BEING ALONE, OR SOME OTHER MUTUALLY "BENEFICIAL" ARRAGEMENT, OR EVEN THROUGH THE UNCONSCIOUS ADDICTION TO THE EXCITEMENT OF EMOTIONAL DRAMA AND PAIN.

               HOWEVER EVERY CRISTS REPRESENTS NOT ONLY DANGER BUT ALSO OPPORTUNITY. IF RELATIONSHIPS ENERGIZE AND MAGNIFY EGOIC MIND PATTERNS AND ACTIVITY THE PAIN-BODY, AS THEY DO AT THIS TIME, WHY NOT ACCEPT THIS FACT RATHER THAN TRY TO ESCAPE FROM IT? WHY NOT COOPERATE WITH IT INSTEAD OF AVOIDING RELATIONSHIPS OR CONTINUING TO PURSUE THE PHANTOM OF AN IDEAL PARTNER AS AN ANSWER TO YOUR PROBLEMS OR A MEANS OF FEELING FULFILLED? THE OPPORTUNITY THAT IS CONCEALED WITHIN EVERY CRISIS DOES NOT MANIFEST UNTIL ALL THE FACTS OF ANY GIVEN SITUATION ARE ACKNOWLEDGED AND FULLY ACCEPTED. AS LONG AS YOU DENY THEM, AS LONG AS YOU TRY TO ESCAPE FROM THEM OR WISH THAT THINGS WERE DIFFERENT THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY DOES NOT OPEN UP, AND YOU REMAIN TRAPPED INSIDE THAT SITUATION, WHICH WILL REMAIN THE SAME OR DETERIARATE FURTHER. 

                       WITH THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TTHE FACTS ALSO COMES A DEGREE OF FREEDOM FROM THEM. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN YOU KNOW THERE IS DISHARMONY AND YOU HOLD THAT "KNOWING" THROUGH YOUR KNOWING A NEW FACTOR HAS COME IN, AND THE DISHARMONY CANNOT REMAIN UNCHANGED. WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT AT PEACE, YOUR KNOWING CREATES A STILL SPACE THAT SURROUNDS YOUR NONPEACE IN A LOVING AND TENDER EMBRACE AND THEN TRANSMUTES YOUR NONPEACE INTO PEACE. AS FAR AS INNER TRANSFORMATION IS CONCERNED, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. YOU CANNOT TRANSFORM YOURSELF, AND YOU CERTAINLY CANNOT TRANSFORM YOUR PARTNER OR ANYBODY ELSE. ALL YOU CAN DO IS CREATE A SPACE FOR TRANSFORMATION TO HAPPEN, FOR GRACE AND LOVE TO ENTER.  

           SO WHENEVER YOUR RELATIONSHIP IS NOT WORKING, WHENEVER IT BRINGS OUT THE "MADNESS" IN YOU AND IN YOUR PARTNER, BE GLAD. WHAT WAS UNCONSCIOUS IS BEING BROUGHT UP TO THE LIGHT. IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SAVATION. EVERY MOMENT, HOLD THE KNOWING OF THAT MOMENT, PARTICULARLY OF YOUR INNER STATE. IF THERE IS ANGER, KNOW THAT THERE IS ANGER. IF THERE IS JEALOUSLY, DEFENSIVENESS, THE URGUE TO ARUGUE, THE NEED TO BE RIGHT, AND UNNER CHILD DEMANDING LOVE AND ATTENTION, OR EMOTIONAL AND HOLD THE KNOWING . THE RELATIONSHIP THEN BECOMES YOUR SADHANA, YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE. IF YOU OBSERVE UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOR IN YOUR PARTNER, HOLD IT IN THE LOVING EMBRACE OF YOUR KNOWING SO THA YOU WON'T REACT. UNCONSCIOUS AND KNOWING CANNOT COEXIST FOR LONG- EVEN IF THE KNOWING IS ONLY IN THE OTHER PERSON AND NOT IN THE ONE WHO IS ACTING OUT THE UNCONSCIOUSNESS. THE ENERGY FORM THAT LIES BEHIND HOSTILITY AND ATTACK FINDS THE PRESENCE OF LOVE ABSOLUTELY INTOLERABLE. IF YOU REACT AT ALL TO YOUR PARTNER'S UNCIOUSNESS, YOU BECOME UNCONSCIOUS YOURSELF. BUT IF YOU THEN REMEMBER TO KNOW YOUR REACTION NOTHING IS LOST.

                  IF YOU ARE CONSISTENLY OR AT LEAST PREDOMINANTLY PRESENT IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP, THIS WILL BE THE GREATEST CHALLENGE FOR YOUR PARTNER. THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TOLERATE YOUR PRESENCE FOR VERY LONG AND STAY UNCONSCIOUS. IF THEY ARE READY, THEY WILL WALK THROUGH THE DOOR THAT YOU OPENED FOR THEM AND JOIN YOU IN THAT STATE. IF THEY ARE NOT, YOU WILL SEPARATE LIKE OIL AND WATER. THE LIGHT IS TOO PAINFUL FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO REMAIN IN DARKNESS.

THE POWER OF POW

                                    WHICH IS THE POWERFUL TIME - ITS NOW!

               I HAVE LITTLE USE FOR THE PAST AND RARELY THINK ABOUT IT, HOWEVER, I WOULD BRIEFLY LIKE TO TELL YOU HOW I CAME TO BE A SPIRITUAL TEACHER AND HOW THIS BOOK CAME INTO EXISTENCE

            UNTIL  MY THIRTEENTH YEAR, I LIVED IN A STATE OF ALMOST CONTINUOS ANXIETY UNTERSPERSED WITH PERIODS OF SUICIDAL DEPRESSION. IT FEESL NOW AS IF I AM TALKING ABOUT SOME PAST LIFETIME OR SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE. 

           ONE NIGHT NOT LONG AFTER MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY. I WOKE UP IN THE EARLY HOURS WITH A FEELING OF ABSOLUTE DREAD. I HAD WOKEDN UP WITH SUCH A FEELING MANY TIMES BEFORE, BUT THIS TIME IT WAS MORE INTENSE THAN IT HAD EVER BEEN. THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT, THE VAGUE OUTLINES OF THE FURNITURE IN THE DARK ROOM, THE DISTANT NOISE OF A PASSING TRAIN-EVERYTHING FELT SO ALIEN, SO HOLTILE, AND SO UTTERLY MEANINGLESS THAT IT CREATED IN ME A DEEP LOATHING OF THE WORLD. THE MOST LOATHSOME THING OF ALL, HOWEVER, WAS MY OWN EXISTENCE. WHAT WAS THE POINT IN CONTINUING OF LIVE WITH THIS BURDEN OF MISERY? WHY CARRY ON WITH THIS CONTINIOUS STRUGGLE? I COULD FEEL THAT A DEEP LONGING FOR ANNIHILATION, FOR NONEXISTENCE, WAS NOW BECOMING MUCH STRONGER THAN THE INSTINCTIVE DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO LIVE.

                     I CANNOT LIVE WITH MYSELF LONGER, THIS WAS THE THOUGHT THAT KEPT REPEATING ITSELF IN MY MIND. THEN SUDDENLY I BECAME  AWARE OF WHAT A PECULIAR THOUGHT IT WAS. AM I ONE OR TWO? IF I CANNOT LIVE WITH MYSELF, THERE MUST BE TWO OF ME,  THE I AND SELF THAT I CANNOT LIVE WITH, MAYBE I THOUGHT ONLY ONE OF THEM IS REAL.

                 I WAS SO STUNNED BY THIS STRANGE REALIZATION THAT MY MIND STOPPED. I WAS FULLY CONSCIOUS, BUT THERE WERE NO MORE THOUGHTS. THEN I FELS DRAWN INTO WHAT SEEMED LIKE A VORTEX OF ENERGY. IT WAS A SLOW MOVEMENT AT FIRST AND THEN ACCELERATED. I WAS GRIPPED BY AN INTENSE FEAR, AND MY BODY STARTED TO SHAKE. I HEARD THE WORDS, RESIST NOTHING, AS IF SPOKEN INSIDE MY CHEST. I COULD FEEL MYSELF BEING SUCKED INT A VOID. IF FELT AS IF THE VOID WAS INSIDE MYSELF RATHER THAN OUTSIDE. SUDDENLY, THERE WAS NO MORE FEAR, AND I LET MYSELF FALL INTO THAT VOID. I HAVE NO RECOLLECTION OF WHAT HAPPEND AFTER THAT.

                    I WAS AWAKENED BY THE CHIRPING OF A BIRD OUTSIDE THE WINDOW. I HAD NEVER HEARD SUCH A SOUND BEFORE. MY EYES WERE STILL CLOSED. AND I SAW THE IMAGE OF A PRECIOUS DIAMOND. YES, IF A DIAMOND COULD MAKE A SOUND, THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE. I OPENED MY EYES. THE FIRST LIGHT OF DRAWN WAS FILTERING THROUGH THE CURTAINS. WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT, I FELT, K KNEW, THAT THERE IS INFINITELY MORE TO LIGHT THAT WE REALIZE. THAT SOFT LUMINOSITY FILTERING THROUGH THE CURTAINS WE LOVE ITSELF. TEARS CAME INTO MY EYES, I GOT UP AND WALKED AROUND THE ROOM. I RECONGNIZED THE ROOM, AND YET I KNEW THAT I HAD NEVER TRULY SEEN IT BEFORE. EVERYTHING WAS FRESH AND PRISTINE, AS IF IT HAD JUST COME INTO EXISTENCE, I PICKED UP THINGS, A PENCIL, AN EMPTY BOTTLE, MARVELLING AT THE BEAUTY AND ALIVENESS OF IT ALL.

                 THAT DAY I WALKED AROUND THE CITY IN UTTER AMAZEMENT AT THE MIRACLE OF LIFE ON EARTH, AS IF I HAD JUST BEEN BORN INTO THIS WORLD.

                  FOR THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS, I LIVED IN A STATE OF UNINTERUPPED DEEP PEACE AND BLISS. AFTER THAT, IT DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT IN INTENSITY, OR PERHAPS IT JUST SEEMED TO BECAUSE IT BECAME MY NATURAL STATE. I COULD STILL FUNCTION IN THE WORLD, ALTHOUGH I REALIZED THAT NOTHING I EVER DID COULD POSSIBLY AND ANYTHING TO WHAT I ALREADY HAD.

                     

            I KNEW OF COURSE, THAT SOMETHING PROFOUNDLY SIGNIFICANT HAD HAPPENED TO ME, BUT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL. IT WASN'T UNTIL SEVERAL YEARS LATER, AFTER I HAD READ  SPIRITUAL TEXTS AND SPEND TIME WITH SPIRITUAL TEACHERS. THAT I REALIZED THAT WHAT EVERYBODY WAS LOOKING FOR HAD ALWAYS HAPPENED TO ME. I UNDERSTOOD THAT THE INTENSE PRESSURE OF SUFFERING THAT NIGHT MUSH HAVE FORCED MY CONSCIOUSNESS TO WITHDRAW FROM ITS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE UNHAPPY AND DEEPTY FEERFUL SELF, WHICH IS ULTIMATELY A FICTION FO THE MIND. THIS WITHDRAWAL MUST HAVE BEEN SO COMPLETE THAT THIS FALSE, SUFFERING SELF IMMEDIATELY COLLAPSED, JUST AS IF A PLUG HAD BEEN PULLED OUT OF AN INFLATABLE TOY. WHAT WAS LEFT THEN WAS MY TRUE NATURE AS THE EVER-PRESENT I AM: CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS PURE STATE PRIOR TO IDENFICATION WITH FORM. LATER I ALSO LEARNED TO GO INTO THAT INNER TIMELESS AND DEATHLESS REALM THAT I HAD ORIGINALLY PERCEIVED AS A VOID AND REMAIN FULLY CONSCIOUS. I DWELT IN STATES OF SUCH INDESCRIBABLE BLISS AND SACREDNESS THAT EVER THE ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE. I JUST DESCRIBED PALES IN COMPARISON. A TIME CAME WHEN, FOR A WHILE, I WAS LEFT WITH NOTHING ON THE PHYSICAL PLANE. I HAD NO RELATIONSHIPS, NO JOB, NO HOME, NO SOCIALLY DEFINED IDENTITY. I SPENT ALMOST TWO YEARS STTING ON PARK BENCHES IN A STATE OF THE MOST INTENSE JOY.

                          BEFORE I KNEW, I HAD AN EXTERNAL IDENTITY AGAIN. I HAD BECOME A SPIRITUAL TEACHER.

                 

                        

            

YOGIS

                                                      THE YOGIS

                  THE YOGI WHOSE VIRTTIS HAVE THUS BECOME POWERLESS (CONTROLLED) OBTAINS IN THE RECEIVER, AND RECEIVED (THE SELF, THE MIND AND EXTERNAL OBJECTS), CONCENTRATEDNESS AND SAMENESS, LIKE THE CRYSTAL.

                 WHAT RESULTS FROM THIS CONSTANT MEDITATION? WE MUST REMEMBER HOW IN A PREVIOUS APHORISM PATANJALI WENT INTO THE VARIOUS STATES OF MEDITATION, AND HOW THE FIRST WILL BE THE GROSS, AND THE SECOND THE FINE OBJECTS, AND FROM THEM THE ADVANCE IS TO STILL FINER OBJECTS OF MEDITATION, AND HOW, IN ALL THESE MEDITATIONS, WHICH ARE ONLY OF THE FIRST DEGREE, NOT VERY HIGH ONES, WE GET AS A RESULT THAT WE CAN MEDITATES AS EASILY ON THE FINE AS ON THE GROSSER OBJECTS. HERE THE YOGI SEES THE THREE THINGS, THE RECEIVER, AND THE RECEIVING, CORRESPONDING TO THE SOUL, THE OBJECT, AND THE MIND. THERE ARE THREE OBJECTS OF MEDITATION GIVEN TO US. FIRST, THE GROSS THINGS, AS BODIES, OR MATERIAL OBJECTS, SECOND, FINE THINGS, AS THE MIND, THE CHITTA, AND THIRD, THE PURUSA QUALIFIED, NOT THE PURUSA ITSELF, BUT THE EGOISM. BY PRACTISE, THE YOGI GETS ESTABLISHED IN ALL THESE MEDITATIONS. WHENEVER THE MEDITATES HE CAN KEEP OUT ALL OTHER THOUGHT, HE BECOMES IDENTIFIED WITH THAT ON WHICH HE MEDIATES, WHEN HE MEDITATES HE IS LIKE A PIECE OF CRYSTAL, BEFORE FLOWERS THE CRYSTAL BECOMES ALMOST IDENTIFIED WITH FLOWERS. IF THE FLOWER IS RED, THE CRYSTAL LOOKS RED, OR IF THE FLOWER IS BLUE, THE CRYSTAL LOOKS BLUE.

                  SOUND MEANING, AND RESULTING KNOWLEDGE, BEING MIXED UP, IS (CALLED SAMADHI) WITH REASONING. 

                   SOUND HERE MEANS VIBRATION, MEANING, THE NERVE CURRENTS WHICH CONDUCT IT, AND KNOWLEDGE, REACTION. ALL THE VARIOUS MEDITATION WE HAVE HAD SO FAR, PATANJALI CALLS SAVITARKA (MEDITATION WITH REASONING). LATER ON HE WILL GIVE US HIGHER AND HIGHER DHYANAS. IN THESED THAT ARE CALLED "WITH REASONING" WE KEEP THE DUALITY OF SUBJECT AND OBJECT, WHICH RESULTS FROM THE MIXTURE OF WORD, MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS FIRST THE EXTERNAL VIBRATION, THE WORD, THIS CARREID INWARD BY THE SENSE CURRENTS, IS THE MEANING. AFTER THAT THERE COMES A REACTIONARY WAVE IN THE CHITT, WHICH IS KNOWLEDGE . IN ALL THE MEDITATIONS UP TO THIS , WE GET THIS MIXTURE AS OBJECT OF MEDITATION. THE NEXT SAMADHI IS HIGHER.

                  THE SAMADHI CALLED WITHOUT REASONING(COMES) WHEN THE MEMORY IS PURIFIED, OR DEVOID OF QUALITIES, EXPRESSING ONLY THE MEANING(OF THE MEDITATED OBJECT).

                  IT IS BY PRACTICE OF MEDITATION OF THESE THREE THAT WE COME TO THE STATE WHERE THESE THREE DO NOT MIX. WE CAN GET RID OF THEM. WE WILL FIRST TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THESE THREE ARE. HERE IS CHITTA, YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE SIMILE OF THE LAKE, THE MIND-STUFF, AND THE VIBRATION, THE WORD, THE SOUND, LIKE A PULSATION COMING OVER IT. YOU HAVE THAT CALM LAKE IN YOU, AND I PRONOUNCE A WORD, "COW". AS SOON AS IT ENTERS THROUGH YOUR EARS THERE IS A WAVE PRODUCED IN YOUR CHITTA ALONG WITH IT. SO THAT WAVE REPRESENTS THE IDEA OF THE COW, THE FORM OR THE MEANING AS WE CALL IT. THAT APPARENT COW THAT YOU KNOW IS REALLY THAT WAVE IN THE MIND-STUFF, AND THAT COMES AS A REACTION TO THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SOUND-VIBRATIONS, AND WITH THE SOUND, THE WAVE DIES AWAY, THAT WAVE CAN NEVER EXIST WIHOUT A WORD.                 

                      YOU MAY ASK HOW IT IS WHEN WE ONLY THINK OF THE CO, AND DO NOT HEAR A SOUND. YOU MAKE THAT SOUND YOURSELF. YOU ARE SAYING "COW" FAINTLYIN YOUR MIND, AND WITH THAT COMES A WAVE. THERE CANNOT BE ANY WAVE WITHOUT THIS IMPULSE OF SOUND. AND WHEN IT IS NOT FROM OUTSIDE IT IS FROM INSIDE, AND WHEN THE SOUND DIES, THE WAVE DIES. WHAT REMAINS? THE RESULT OF THE REACTION, AND THAT IS KNOWLEDGE. THESE THREE ARE SO CLOSELY COMBINED IN OUR MIND THAT WE CANNOT SEPERATE THEM. WHEN THE SOUND COMES, THE SENSE VIBRATE, AND THE WAVE RISES IN REACTION, THEY FOLLOW SO CLOSELY UPON ONE ANOTHER THAT THERE IS NO DISCERNING ONE FROM THE OTHER, WHEN THIS MEDITATION HAS BEEN PRACTISED FOR A LONG TIME, MEMORY THE RECEPTACLE OF ALL IMPRESSIONS, BECOMES PURIFIED, AND WE ARE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH THEM FORM ONE ANOTHER. THIS IS CALLED "NIRVITARKA" CONCENTRATION WITHOUT REASONING. 

THE MAN

                                               

                                                       THE MAN CHAPTER 2

              IF A MAN HOLD HIMSELF, LET HIM WATCH HIMSELF CAREFULLY, DURING ONE AT LEAST OUT OF THE THREE WATCHE'S A WISE MAN SHOULD BE WATCHFUL. LET EACH MAN DIRECT HIMSELF FIRST TO WHAT IS PROPER, THEN LET HIM TEACH OTHERS, THUS A WISE MAN WILL NOT SUFFER. IF A MAN MAKE HIMSELF AS HE TEACHES OTHERS TO BE, THEN, BEING HIMSELF WELL SUBDUED, HE MAY SUBDUE OTHERS, ONE'S OWN SELF IS DIFFICULT SUBDUE. SELF IS THE LORD OF SELF, WHO ELSE COULD BE THE LORD? WITH SELF WELL SUBDUED, A MAN FINDS A LORD SUCH AS FEW CAN FIND.

             THE EVIL DONE BY ONE'S SELF, SELF-FORGOTTEN, SELF-BRED, CRUSHES THE FOOLISH, AS A DIAMOND BREAKS EVEN A PRECIOUS STONE. HE WHOSE WICKEDNESS IS VERY GREAT BRINGS HIMSELF DOWN TO THAT STATE WHERE HIS ENEMY WISHES HIM TO BE, AS A CREEPER DOES WITH THE TREE WHICH IT SURROUNDS. BAD DEEDS, AND DEEDS HURTFUL TO OURSELVES, ARE EASY TO DO, WHAT IS BENEFICIAL AND GOOD, THAT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DO. THE FOOLISH MAN WHO SCORNS THE RULE OF THE VENERABLE(ARHAT), OF THE ELECT(ARIYA), OF THE VIRTUOS, AND FOLLOWS A FALSE DOCTINE, HE BEARS FRUIT TO HIS OWN DESTRUCTION LIKE THE FRUITS OF THE KATTHAKA REED?

                  BY ONE'S SELF THE EVIL IS DONE, BY ONE'S SELF ONE SUFFERS, BY ONE'S SELF EVIL IS STAND AND FALL BY ONE'S SELF ONE IS PURIFIED. THE PURE AND THE IMPURE STAND AND FALL BY THEMSELVES, NO ONE CAN PURIFY ANOTHER. LET NO ONE FORGET HIS OWN DUTY FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER'S HOWEVER GREAT, LET A MAN, AFTER HE HAS DISCERNED HIS OWN DUTY, BE ALWAYS ATTENTIVE TO HIS DUTY.

                                                               THE EVIL LAW

        DO NOT FOLLOW THE EVIL LAW! DO NOT LIVE ON IN THOUGHTNESSNESS! DON NOT FOLLOW FALSE DOCTRINE! BE NOT A FRIEND OF THE WORLD.ROUSE THYSELF! DO NOT BE IDLE! FOLLOW THE LAW OF VIRTUE! THE VIRTUEOUS REST IN BLISS IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE NEXT. FOLLOW THE LAW OF VIRTUE, DON NOT FOLLOW THAT OF SIN. THE VIRTUOUS REST IN BLISS IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE NEXT. LOOK UPON THE WORLD AS YOU WOULD ON A BUBBLE, LOOK UPON IT AS YOU WOULD ON A MIRAGE, THE KING OF DEATH DOES NOT SEE HIM WHO THUS LOOKS DOWN UPON THE WORLD. COME, LOOK AT THIS WORLD, GLITTERING LIKE A ROYAL CHARIOT, THE FOOLISH ARE IMMERSED IN IT, BUT THE WISE DO NOT TOUCH IT.

           HE WHO FORMERLY WAS RECKLESS AND AFTERWARDS BECAME SOBER, BRIGHTENS UP THIS WORLD, LIKE THE MOON WHEN FREED FROM CLOUDS. HE WHOSE EVIL DEEDS ARE COVERED BY GOOD DEEDS, BRIGHTENS UP THIS WORLD, LIKE THE MOON WHEN FREED FROM CLOUDS. THIS WORLD IS DARK, FEW ONLY CAN SEE HERE, A FEW ONLY GO TO HEAVEN, LIKE BIRDS ESCAPED FROM THE NET. THE SWANS GO ON THE PATH OF THE SUN, THEY GO MIRACUOUSLY THROUGH THE ETHER, THE WISE ARE LED OUT OF THIS WORLD, WHEN THEY HAVE CONQUERED MARA AND HIS TRAIN. IF A MAN HAS TRANSGRESSED THE ONE LAW, AND SPEAKS LIES, AND SCOFFS AT ANOTHER WORLD, THERE IS NO EVIL HE WILL NOT DO. THE UNCHARITABLE DO NOT GO TO THE WORLD OF THE GODS, FOOLS ONLY DO NOT PRAISE LIBERALITY, A WISE MAN REJOICES IN LIBERALITY, AND THOUGH IT BECOMES BLESSED IN THE OTHER WORLD.  BETTER THAN SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE EARTH, BETTAR THAN GOING TO HEAVEN, BETTER THAN LORDSHIP OVER ALL WORDS, IS THE REWARD OF SOTAPATTI, THE FIRST STEP IN HOLINESS.

                                                                   DONT SEEK

        HOW IS THERE LAUGHER, HOW IS THER JOY, AS THIS WORLD IS ALWAYS BURNING? DO YOU NOT SEEK A LIGHT, YE WHO ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS? LOOK AT THIS DRESSED-UP LUMP, COVERED WITH WOUNDS, JOINED TOGETHER, SICKLY, FULL OF MANY SCHEMES, BUT WHICH HAS NO STRENGTH, NO HOLD! THIS BODY IS WASTED, FULL OF SICKNESS, AND FRAIL, THIS HEAP OF CORRUPTION BREAKS, TO PIECES, LIFE INDEED ENDS IN DEATH. AFTER ONE HAS LOOKED AT THOSE GRAY BONES, THROWN AWAY LIKE GOURDS IN THE AUTUMN, WHAT PLEASURE IS THERE LEFT IN LIFE!.

         AFTER A STONGHOLD HAS BEEN MADE OF THE BONES, IT IS COVERED WITH FLESH AND BLOOD, AND THERE DWELL IN IT OLD AGE AND DEATH, PRIDE AND DECEIT. THE BRILLIAT CHARIOTS OF KINGS ARE DESTROYED, THE BODY ALSO APPROACHES DESTRUTION, BUT THE VIRTUE OF GOOD PEOPLE NEVER APPROACHES DESTRUCTION-THUS DO THE GOOD SAY TO THE GOOD. A MAN WHO HAS LEARNT, LITTLE, GROWS OLD LIKE AN OX, HIS FLESH GROWS, BUT HIS KNOWLEDGE DOES NOT GROW. LOOKING FOR THE MAKER OF THIS TABERNACLE, I HAVE RUN THROUGH A COURSE OF MANY BIRTHS, NOT FINDING HIM, AND PAINFUL IS BIRTH AGAIN AND AGAIN. BUT NOW, MAKER OF THER TABERNACLE, THOU HAS BEEN SEEN, THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UP THIS TABERNACLE AGAIN. ALL THY RAFTERS ARE BROKEN, THY RIDGE-POLE IS SUNDERED, THE MIND, APPROACHING THE ETERNAL(VISANKHARA NIRVANA) HAS ATTAINED TO THE EXTINCTION OF ALL DESIRES.

             MEN WHO HAVE NOT OBSERVED PROPER DISCIPLINE, AND HAVE NOT GAINED WEALTH IN THEIR YOUTH, PERISH LIKE OLD HERONS IN A LAKE WITHOUT FISH. MEN WHO HAVE NOT OBSERVED PROPER DISCIPLINE AND HAVE NOT GAINED WEALTH IN THEIR YOUTH, LIE, LIKE BROKEN BOWS, SIGHING AFTER THE PAST.

 

 

ANGER

                                                  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.

    

 

A MAN

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              A MAN IS NOT JUST IF HE CARRIES A MATTER BY VIOLENCE, HE WHO DISTINGUISHES BOTH RIGHT AND WRONG, WHO IS LEARNED AND GUIDES OTHERS, NOT BY VIOLENCE, BUT BY THE SAME LAW, BEING A GUARDIAN OF THE LAW AND INTELLETENT, HE IS CALLED JUST. A MAN IS NOT LEARNED BECAUSE HE TALKS MUCH, HE WHO IS PATIENT, FREE FROM HATRED AND FEAR, HE IS CALLED LEARNED. A MAN IS NOT A SUPPORTER OF THE LAW BECAUSE HE TALKS MUCH, EVEN IF A MAN HAS LEARNT LITTLE, BUT SEES THE LAW BODILY, HE IS A SOPPORTER OF THE LAW, A MAN WHO NEVER NEGLECTS THE LAW. A MAN IS NOT AN ELDER BECAUSE HIS HEAD IS GRAVY, HIS AGE MAY BE RIPE, BUT HE IS CALLED "OLD-IN-VAIN". HE IN WHOM ALL THIS IS DESTROYED, AND TAKEN OUT WITH THE VERY ROOT, HE, WHEN FREED FROM HATRED, IS CALLED REPECTABLE. NOT BY TONSURE DOES AN UNDISCIPLINED MAN WHO IS STILL HELD CAPTIVE BY DESIRE AND GREEDINESS? HE WHO ALWAYS QUIETS THE EVIL, WHETHER SMALL OR LARGE, HE IS CALLED A SAMANA (A QUITE MAN), BECAUSE HE HAS QUEITED ALL EVIL. A MAN IS NOT A MENDICANT (BHIKSHU) SIMPLY BECAUSE HE ASKS OTHERS FOR ALMS, HE WHO ADOPTS THE WHOLE LAW IN A BHIKSHU, NOT HE WHO ONLY BEGS. 

                 HE WHO IS ABOVE GOOD AND EVIL, WHO IS CHASTE, WHO WITH CARE PASSES THROUGH THE WORLD, HE INDEED IS CALLED A BHIKSHU. A MAN IS NOT A MUNI BECAUSE HE OBSERVES SILENCE IF HE IS FOOLISH AND IGNORANT, BUT THE WISE WHO, AS WITH THE BALANCE, CHOOSES THE GOOD AND AVOIDS EVIL, HE IS A MUNI, AND IS A MUNI THEREBY, HE WHO IN THIS WORLD WEIGHS BOTH SIDES IS CALLED A MUNI.

                A MAN IS NOT AN ELECT(ARIYA) BECAUSE HE INJUIRES LIVING CREATURES BECAUSE HE HAS PITY ON ALL LIVING CREATURES, THEREFORE IS A MAN CALLED ARIYA. NOT ONLY BY DISCIPLINE AND VOWS, NOT ONLY BY MUCH LEARNING, NOT BY ENTERING INTO A TRANCE, NOT BY SLEEPING ALONE, DO I EARN THE HAPPINESS OF RELEASE WHICH NO WORLDLING CAN KNOW. O BHIKSHU, HE WHO HAS OBTAINED THE EXTINCTION OF DESIRES, HAS OBTAINED CONFIDENCE.

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                THE BEST OF WAYS IN THE EIGHTFOLD, THE BEST OF TRUTHS THE FOUR WORDS, THE BEST OF VIRTUES PASSIONLESSNESS, THE BEST OF MEN HE WHO HAS EYES TO SEE. THIS IS THE WAY, THERE IS NO OTHER THAT LEADS TO PURIFYING OF INTELLEGENCE. GO ON THIS PATH! THIS THE CONFUSION OF MARA, THE TEMPTER. IF YOU GO ON THIS WAY, YOU WILL MAKE AN END OF PAIN! THE WAY PREACHED BY ME, WHEN I HAD UNDERSTOOD THE REMOVAL OF THE THORNS IN THE FLESH. YOU YOURSELF MUST MAKE AN EFFORT. THE TATHAGATAS(BUDDHAS) ARE ONLY PREACHERS. THE THOUGHTFUL WHO ENTER THE WAY ARE FREED FROM THE BONDAGE OF MARA. ALL CREATED THINGS PERISH, HE WHO KNOWS AND SEES THIS BECOMES PASSIVE IN PAIN, THIS IS THE WAY TO PURITY. ALL CREATED THINGS ARE GRIEF AND PAIN, HE WHO KNOWS AND SEES THIS BECOMES PASSIVE IN PAIN, THIS IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO PURITY. ALL FORMS ARE UNREAL, HE WHO KNOWS AND SEES THIS BECCOMES PASSIVE IN PAIN, THIS IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO PURITY. HE WHO DOES NOT ROUSE HIMSELF WHEN IT IS TIME TO RISE, WHO, THOUGH YOUNG AND STRONG, IS FULL OF SLOTH, WHOSE WILL AND THOUGHT ARE WEAK, THAT LAZY AND IDLE MAN NEVER FINDS THE WAY TO KNOWLEDGE.

                    WATCHING HIS SPEECH, WELL RESTRAINED IN MIND, LET A MAN NEVE COMMIT, ANY WRONG WITH HIS BODY! LET A MAN BUT KEEP THESE THREE ROADS OF ACTION CLEAR, AND HE WILL ACHIEVE THE WY WHICH IS TAUGHT BY THE WISE. THROUGH ZEAL KNOWLEDGE IS LOST, LET A MAN WHO KNOWS THIS DOUBLE PATH OF GAIN AND LOSS THUS PLACE HIMSELF THAT KNOWLEDGE MAY GLOW. CUT DOWN THE WHOLE FOREST OF DESIRES, NOT A TREE ONLY! DANGER COMES OUT OF THE FORESTS OF DESIRES. WHEN YOU HAVE CUT DOWN BOTH THE FOREST OF DESIRES AND ITS UNDERGROWTH, THEN, BHIKSHUS, YOU WILL BE RID OF THE FOREST AND OF DESIRES!

                     SO LONG AS THE DESIRE OF MAN TOWARDS WOMAN, EVEN THE SMALLEST, IS NOT DESTROYED, SO LONG IS HIS MIND IN BONDAGE, AS THE CALF THAT DRINKS MILK IS TO ITS MOTHER. CUT OUT THE LOVE OF SELF, LIKE AN AUTUMN LOTUS, WITH THY HANDLE CHERISH THE ROAD OF PEACE, NIRVANA HAS BEEN SLOWN BY SUGATA (BUDDHA). HERE I SHALL DWELL IN THE RAIN, HERE IN WINTER AND SUMMER,. THUS THE FOOL MEDITATES, AND DOES NOT THINK OF DEATH. DEATH COMES AND CARRIES OFF THAT MAN, HONORED FOR HIS CHILDREN AND FLOCKS, HIS MIND DISTRACTED, AS A FLOOD CARRIES OFF A SLEEPING VILLAGE. SONS ARE NO HELP, NOR A FATHER, NOR RELATIONS, THER IS NO HELP FROM KINSFOLK FOR ONE WHOM DEATH HAS SEIZED. A WISE AND WELL-BEHAVED MAN WHO KNOWS THE MEANING OF THIS SHOULD QUICKLY CLEAR THE WAY THAT LEADS TO NIRVANA.

WISDOM OF OUR THOUGHTS

                                                    THE TWIN THOUGHTS😇

                                                     CHAPTER 1

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                      ALL THAT WE ARE IS THE RESULT OF WHAT WE HAVE THOUGHT, IT IS FOUNDED ON OUT THOUGHTS, IT IS MADE UP OR OUR THOUGHTS. IF A MAN SPEAKS OR ACTS WITH AN EVIL THOUGHT, PAIN FOLLOWS HIM, AS THE WHEEL FOLLOWS THE FOOT OF THE OX THAT DRAWS THE CARRIAGE.

                     ALL THAT WE ARE IS TE RESULT OF WHAT WE THOUGHT, IT IS FOUNDED ON OUT THOUGHTS, IT IS MADE UP OR OUR THOUGHTS. IF A MAN SPEAKS OR ACTS WITH A PURE THOUGHTS, HAPPINESS FOLLOWS HIM, LIKE A SHADOW THAT NEVER LEAVES HIM.

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                  HE ABUSED ME, HE BEAT ME, HE DEFEATED ME, HE ROBBED ME, IN THOSE WHO HARBOR SUCH THOUGHTS HATRED WILL NEVER CEASE

                 HE ABUSED ME, HE BEAT ME, HE DEFEATED ME, HE ROBBED ME, IN THOSE WHO DO NOT CEASE BY HATRED WILL CEASE.

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                FOR HATRED DOES NOT CEASE BY HATRED AT ANY TIME. HATRED CEASES BY LOVE- THIS IS AN OLD RULE.

               THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW THAT WE MUST ALL COME TO AN END HERE, BUT THOSE WHO KNOW IT, THEIR QUIRRELS CEASE AT ONCE.

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                HE  WHO LIVES LOOKING FOR PLEASURES ONLY, HIS SENSES UNCONTROLLED, IMMODERATE IN HIS FOOD, IDLE, AND WEAK, MARA( THE TEMPTER) WILL CERTAINLY OVERTHROW HIM, AS THE WIND THROWS DOWN A WEAK TREE.

               HE WHO LIVES WITHOUT LOOKING FOR PLEASURES, HIS SENSES WELL CONTROLLED, MODERATE IN HIS FOOD, FAITHFUL AND STRONG, HIM MARA WILL CERTAINLY NOT OVERTHROW, ANY MORE THAN THE WIND THROWS DOWN A ROCKY MOUNTAIN.

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               HE WHO WISHES TO PUT ON THE YELLOW DRESS WITHOUT HAVING CLEANSED HIMSELF FROM SIN, WHO DISREGARDS ALSO TEMPERANCE AND TRUTH, IS UNWORTHY OF THE YELLOW DRESS.

                         BUT HE WHO HAS CLEANSED HIMSELF FROM SIN, IS WELL GROUNDED IN ALL VIRTUES, AND ENDOWED ALSO WITH TEMPORANCE AND TRUTH, HE IS INDEED WORTHY OF THE YELLOW DRESS.

 

              

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                         THEY WHO IMAGINE TRUTH IN UNTRUTH, AND SEE UNTRUTH IN TRUTH, NEVER ARRIVE AT TRUTH, BUT FOLLOW VAIN DESIRES.

                      THEY WHO KNOW THE TRUTH IN TRUTH, AND UNTRUTH IN UNTRUTH, ARRIVE AT TRUTH, AND FOLLOW TRUE DESIRES.

                  

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               AS RAIN BREAKS THROUGH AN ILL-THRATCHED HOURSE, WILL BREAK THROUGH AN UNREFLECTING MIND.

               AS RAIN DOES NOT BREAK THROUGH A WELL-THATCHED HOUSE, PASSION WILL NOT BREAK THROUGH A WELL-REFLECTING MIND.

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                 THE EVIL-DOER MOURNS IN THIS WORLD, AND HE MOURNS IN THE NEXT, HE MOURNS IN BOTH. HE DELIGHTS AND REJOICES, WHEN HE SEES THE PURITY OF HIS OWN WORK. 

                 THE EVIL-DOER SUFFERS IN THIS WORLD, AND HE DELIGHTS IN THE NEXT HE SUFFERS IN BOTH. HE SUFFERS WHEN HE THINKS OF THE EVIL HE HAS DONE, HE SUFFERS MORE WHEN GOING ON THE EVIL PATH.

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                            THE VIRTUOUS MAN IS HAPPY IN THIS WORLD, AND HE IS HAPPY IN THE NEXT, HE IS HAPPY IN BOTH. HE IS HAPPY WHEN HE THINKS OF THE GOOD HE HAS DONE, HE IS STILL MORE HAPPY WHEN GOING ON THE GOOD PATH.

                        THE THOUGHTLESS MAN, EVEN IF HE CAN RECITE A LARGE PORTION OF THE LAW, BUT IS NOT A DOER OF IT, HAS NO SHARE IN THE PRIESTHOOD, BUT IS LIKE A COWHERD COUNTING THE COWS OF OTHERS.

                     THE FOLLOWER OF THE LAW, EVEN IF HE CAN RECITE ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF THE LAW, BUT, HAVING FORSAKEN PASSION AND HATRED AND FOOLISHNESS, POSSESSES TRUE KNOWLEDGE AND SERENITY OF MIND, HE, CARING FOR NOTHING IN THIS WORLD OR THAT TO COME, HAS INDEED A SHARE IN THE PRIESTHOOD.

                                                           THOUGHT CHAPTER 2

           AS A FLETCHER MAKES STRAIGHT HIS ARROW, A WISE MAN MAKES STRAIGHT HIS TREMBLING AND INSTEADY THOUGHT, WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO GUARD, DIFFICULT TO HOLD BACK.

          AS A FISH TAKEN FROM HIS WATERY HOME AND THROWN ON THE DRY GROUND, OUR THOUGHT TREMBLES ALL OVER IN ORDER TO ESCAPE THE DOMINION OF MARA, THE TEMPTER.

   

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                IT IS GOOD TO TAME THE MIND, WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO HOLD IN AND FLIGHTY, RUSHING WHEREVER IT LISTETH, A TAMED MIND BRINGS HAPPINESS.

               LET THE WISE MAN GUARD HIS THOUGHTS, FOR THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO PERCEIVE, VERY ARTFUL, AND THEY RUSH WHEREVER THEY LIST, THOUGHTS WELL GUARDED BRING HAPPINESS.

                THOSE WHO BRIDLE THEIR MIND WHICH TRAVELS FAR, MOVES ABOUT ALONE, IS WITHOUT A BODY, AND HIDES IN THE CHAMBER OF THE HEART, WILL BE FREE FROM THE BONDS OF MARA, THE TEMPTER.

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                IF A MAN'S FAITH IS INSTEADY, IF HE DOES NOT KNOW THE TRUE LAW, IF HIS PEACE OF MIND IS THOUGHTS HIS KNOWLEDGE WILL NEVER BE PERFECT.

              IF A MAN'S THOUGHTS ARE NOT DISSIPATED, IF HIS MIND IS NOT PERPLEXED, IF HE HAS CEASED TO THINK OF GOOD OR EVIL, THEN THERE IS NO FEAR FOR HIM WHILE HE IS WATCHFUL.

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            KNOWING THAT THIS BODY ID FRAGILE LIKE A JAR, AND MAKING HIS THOUGHT FIRM LIKE A FORTRESS, ONE SHOULD ATTACK MARA, THE TEMPTER, WITH THE WEAPON OF KNOWLEDGE, ONE SHOULD WATCH HIM WHEN CONQUERED, AND SHOULD NEVER REST.

           BEFORE LONG, ALAS! THIS BODY WILL LIE ON THE EARTH, DESPISED WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING, LIKE A USELESS LOG.

 

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          WHATEVER A HATER MAY DO TO A HATER, OR AN ENEMY TO AN ENEMY, A WRONGLY-DIRECTED MIND WILL DO HIM GREATER MISCHIEF.

           NOT A MOTHER, NOT A FATHER, WILL DO SO MUCH, NOR ANY OTHER RELATIVES, A WELL-DIRECTED MIND WILL DO US GREATER SERVICE.