Property:HPB Gem text
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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. +
Trifling ruins earnestness, lying is the enemy of truth, and oppression perverts justice. +
True clemency is in foregoing revenge, when it is in one's power; true patience is in bearing up against disappointments. +
Trust not in business one ever caught asleep by the sun rising or setting, for thereby he incurs great sin. +
Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night. +
Two things are impossible in this world of Maya: to enjoy more than Karma hath allotted; to die before one's hour hath struck. +
UTTISTHA! — Rise! Awake!<br>
Seek the great Teachers, and attend! The road<br>
Is narrow as a knife-edge! Hard to tread!<br>
But whoso once perceiveth HIM that IS; —<br>
Without a name, Unseen, Impalpable,<br>
Bodiless, Undiminished, Unenlarged,<br>
To senses undeclared, without an end,<br>
Without beginning, Timeless, Higher than height,<br>
Deeper than depth! Lo! Such an one is saved!<br>
Death hath not power upon him! +
Unenduring are youth, beauty, life, wealth, lordship, the society of the beloved; let not the wise be deluded by these. +
Useless to seek to seize the ocean-echo, by clasping the shell in which it lies hid; as useless to try to seize this essence, by grasping the form in which for a moment it shone. +
Vain hopes cut man off from every good; but the renunciation of avarice prevents every ill. +
Vehement desires about any one thing render the soul blind with respect to other things. +