Property:HPB Gem text
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An act may seem right, but it is by its results that its purpose is shown. +
An easy temper is a good counsellor, and a pleasant tongue is an excellent leader. +
An evil deed does not turn on a sudden like curdling milk; it is like fire smoldering in the ashes, which burns the fool. +
An evil deed kills not instantly, as does a sword, but it follows the evil-doer into his next and still next rebirth. +
And if the gods are not, or take no care of mortals – why, then, a world without gods is not worth a man's while to live in. +
As a man digging comes to water, so a zealous student attains unto knowledge. +
As a person having seen one in a dream, recognizes him afterwards; so does one who has achieved proper concentration of mind perceive the SELF. +
As a sower gets not his harvest if he sow seed in salt soil, so the giver gets no fruit by bestowing on the unworthy. +
As all earthen vessels made by the potter end in being broken, so is the life of mortals. +
As large as is the unbounded Universe,<br>
So large that little, hidden Spirit is!<br>
The Heavens and Earths are in it! Fire and air,<br>
And sun and moon and stars; darkness and light,<br>
It comprehends! Whatever maketh Man,<br>
The present of him, and the past of him,<br>
And what shall be of him; – all thoughts and things<br>
Lie folded in the eternal vast of It! +
As many passions of the soul, so many fierce and savage despots. +
As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind. +
As the bee collects nectar, and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or scent, so let a Sage dwell in his village. +
As the spider moving upward by his thread gains free space, thus also he who undertakes moving upward by the known word OM, gains independence. +
As the streams of a river flow on, and return not, so pass away the days and nights, taking away the lives of men. +
As two pieces of wood may come together in the ocean, and having met, may separate again; like this is the meeting of mortals. +
At present your nature is distinct; but ere long you will vanish into the whole: you will be returned into that universal reason which gave you your being. +
At the end of a life of study, the man possessed of knowledge approaches Deity; and at the end of many lives, the wise man becomes one with the ALL. +
Bathe in the river of the soul, O man, for not with water is the soul washed clean. +
Be not a friend to the wicked – charcoal when hot, burns; when cold, it blackens the fingers. +