Property:HPB Gem text
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B
There exists no spot on the earth, or in the sky, or in the sea, neither is there any in the mountain-clefts, where an evil deed does not bring trouble to the doer. +
There is a road that leads to Wealth; there is another road that leads to Nirvana. +
There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth, than in descending into a wild beast's den. +
There is no death without sin, and no affliction without transgression. +
There is “true” Knowledge. Learn thou it is this:<br>
To see one Changeless Life in all that lives,<br>
And in the Separate, One Inseparable.<br>
There is imperfect Knowledge: that which sees<br>
The separate existences apart,<br>
And, being separated, holds them real.<br>
There is false Knowledge: that which blindly clings<br>
To one as if 'twere all, seeking no cause,<br>
Deprived of light, narrow, and dull, and “dark”. +
This life is in the world of work and retributive justice; the life that follows is in the world of great reward. +
This world is a venomous tree, bearing two honey-sweet fruits: the divine essence of poetry and the friendship of the noble. +
Those who prefer to swim in the waters of their ignorance, and to go down very low, need not exert the body or heart; they need only cease to move, and they will surely sink. +
Though despised, one sleeps with comfort, with comfort awakes, with comfort lives in this world; but the scorner perisheth. +
Thoughts alone cause the round of rebirths in this world; let a man strive to purify his thoughts, what a man thinks, that he is: this is the old secret. +
Three things can never be got with three things: wealth, with wishing for it; youth, with cosmetics; health, with medicine. +
Three things make a poor man rich: courtesy, consideration for others, and the avoidance of suspicion. +
Through joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, the soul comes to a knowledge of itself. +
To enjoy the day of plenty, you must be patient in the day of want. +
To every man that is born, an axe is born in his mouth, by which the fool cuts himself, when speaking bad language. +
To feel one's ignorance is to be wise; to feel sure of one's wisdom is to be a fool. +
To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us. +
To him who has subdued self by SELF, his self is a friend; but to him who has not subdued senses by mind, that self is an enemy. +
To hold on with fortitude in one condition, and sobriety in the other, is a proof of a great soul and an impregnable virtue. +
To obtain the knowledge of self, is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future. +