Property:HPB Gem text
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Rain in the morn brings the sun after noon. He who weeps today, may laugh tomorrow. +
Real self-knowledge is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature of man. +
Remember that life is wearing off, and a smaller part of it is left daily. +
Ring out the old, ring in the new,<br>
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:<br>
The year is going, let him go;<br>
Ring out the false, ring in the true.<br>
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind,<br>
For those that here we see no more;<br>
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,<br>
Ring in redress to all mankind. +
Sacrifice not thy weaker child to the stronger, but protect him. +
Save not thy life at the expense of another's, as he will take two of thy lives in future births. +
Say not 'I am,' 'I was,' or 'I shall be,'<br>
Think not ye pass from house to house of flesh<br>
Like travellers who remember and forget,<br>
Ill-lodged or well-lodged. Fresh<br>
Issues upon the universe that sum<br>
Which is the lattermost of lives. It makes<br>
Its habitation as the worm spins silk<br>
And dwells therein. +
Seek refuge in thy soul; have there thy Heaven! Scorn them that follow virtue for her gifts! +
Self is the lord of self: who else could be the lord! With self well subdued, a man finds a master such as few can find. +
Self-knowledge is unattainable by what men usually call "self-analysis." It is not reached by reasoning or any brain-powers. +
Shall there not be as good a 'Then' as 'Now'?<br>
Haply much better... <br>
:::...Therefore fear I not;<br>
And therefore, Holy Sir! my life is glad,<br>
Nowise forgetting yet those other lives<br>
Painful and poor, wicked and miserable,<br>
Whereon the Gods grant pity! But for me,<br>
What good I see, humbly I seek to do,<br>
And live obedient to the law, in trust<br>
That what will come, and must come, <br>
:::shall come well. +
Shun him who secretly slanders, and praises openly; he is like a cup of poison, with cream on the surface. +
Sin should be abstained from, not through fear, but for the sake of the becoming. +
Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past. +
Some pluck the fruits of the tree of knowledge to crown themselves therewith, instead of plucking them to eat. +
Spirituality is not what we understand by the words "virtue" and "goodness." It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences. +
That man alone is wise, who keeps the mastery of himself. +
That man who accurately understands the movement and the cause of the revolutions of the wheel of life is never deluded. +
That which does not make man worse, does not make his life worse; as a result, he has no harm either within or without. +
That word which all the Vedas record, which all penances proclaim, which men desire when they live as religious disciples, that word I tell thee briefly, it is OM. +