Property:HPB Gem text
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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. +
The Higher Self knows that highest home of Brahman, which contains all and shines so bright. The wise who without desiring happiness worship that SELF, are not born again. +
The Sage who knows Brahman moves on; on the small, old path that stretches far away, rests in the heavenly place, and thence moves higher on. +
The altar on which the sacrifice is offered is Man; the fuel is speech itself, the smoke the breath, the light the tongue, the coals the eye, the sparks the ear. +
The avaricious go not to the world of the gods (devas), for the fool commands no charity. +
The being of the gods, and their concern in human affairs, is beyond dispute. +
The best of medicines is death; the worst of diseases is vain anticipation. +
The best policy for a man is not to boast of his virtues. +
The best possession of the man of clay is health; the highest virtue of the man of spirit is truthfulness. +
The brave man of whose prowess all men stand in need, will never be distressed by adversaries. +
The calumniator is like one who flings dirt at another when the wind is contrary, the dirt does but return on him who threw it. +