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<h1 style="text-align:center;background-color:#606060;color:white;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;">Sayings of Buddha - Dhammapada</h2>
<center><h2>Conjugate Verses</h2></center>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">In
all things the primordial element is mind. Mind
predominates. Everything proceeds from mind.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">If
a man speaks or acts with an evil mind, suffering
follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the
bullock that pulls the cart.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">Mind
predominates. Everything proceeds from mind. In all
things the primordial element is the mind. If a man
Speaks or acts with a purified mind, happiness accompanies
Him as closely as his inseparable shadow.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">"He
has insulted me, he has beaten me, he has humiliated
me he has robbed me." Those who nourish thoughts such
as these never appease their hatred."</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">For,
in truth, in this world hatred is not appeased by
hatred; hatred is appeased by love alone. This is
the eternal law.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">Many
are those who are not aware that one day we all
must die. And those who are aware of it appease
their quarrels. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">Just
as the strong wind uproots a feeble tree, so Mara
Overwhelms the man who lives only in pursuit of pleasure,
Who does not control is senses, who knows not how
to Moderate his appetite, who is lazy and wastes
his energies.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">He
who puts on the, yellow robe while he is yet impure,
lacking in self-Control, and lacking in loyalty, truly
he is unworthy to wear the yellow robe of the
monk. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">But
he who has discarded all impurity, who
is firmly attached to the precepts of morality,
who knows how to moderate his appetite and
who is loyal, he, truly is worthy to wear the
yellow robe.</font></p>
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<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">Those
who take error for truth and the truth for error,
will never attain the supreme goal, for they, are
led astray by vain desires, and false views</font></p>
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<div align="left"><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099">Those
who know the true to be true and the false
to be false, they attain the supreme goal, for they
pursue right desires and correct views.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099">Just
as the rain penetrates through the thatch of a leaking
root, so the passions penetrate an unbalanced mind. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">Just
as the rain cannot penetrate a house well covered
with thatch, so also the passions cannot penetrate
a balanced mind. </font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">In
the two worlds, in this world and in the other, one
who does evil grieves. He laments and suffers as he
recalls his evil deeds.</font></div>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">One,
who does good rejoices in the two worlds in this
world and in the other. He rejoices more and more
as he recalls his good deeds.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3"><spacer size="72"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>One who does evil suffers in the two worlds, in this
world and in the, other. "I have done wrong": this
thought torments him. And his torments increase
still more as he follows the way which leads to
the internal world.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3"><spacer size="72"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>One who does good rejoices in the two worlds, in this
world and in the other. "I have done good". the
thought rejoices him and his happiness increases
more and more as he follows the way that leads to
the celestial world.</font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3"></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099">Even
though he may, recite a great number of sacred
texts, if he does not act accordingly, the foolish
one will be like the cowherd who counts the cows
of others. He cannot share in the life of the
disciples of the Blessed One.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000099" size="3">Though
he may recite only a tiny portion of the scared
texts, if he puts into practice. Their teaching,
having rejected all passion, all ill-will and
all delusion, he possesses the true wisdom; his
mind completely freed, no longer attached to anything,
belonging neither to this world nor to any other,
he shares in the life of the disciples of the
Blessed One. </font></p>
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<center><h2>Vigilance</h2></center>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Vigilance
is the way that leads to immortality(or Nirvana).
Negligence is the way that leads to death. Those negligent
not die. Those who are who are vigilant do not die.
Those who are negligent are dead already.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Having
fully understood what vigilance is, the sages delight
in it and take their pleasure in the presence of the
Great Ones. </font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Those
who are intelligent, meditative, persevering, who
ceaselessly struggle with themselves, attain
to Nirvana, which is the supreme felicity.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whosoever
can sustain his zeal, remain pure in his actions,
act wisely, restrain his passions, live according
to the Law ( or to morality), he shall see his renown
increase.</font></p>
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<p align=right><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">
</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">By
his effort, his vigilance, his discipline and
self-mastery, the intelligent man should create
for himself an island, which no flood can
submerge</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fools, devoid of intelligence, give themselves
up to negligence. The true sage guards vigilance
as his most precious treasure.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Do
not let yourself fall into carelessness, nor into
the pleasures of the senses. He who, is
vigilant and given to meditation acquires
a great happiness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
intelligent man who by his vigilance has dispelled
negligence, mounts to the heights of wisdom
whence he looks upon the many afflicted as one
on a mountain looks down upon the people of the
plain.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Vigilant
among those who are negligent, perfectly awake
among those who sleep, the intelligent man advances
like a rapid steed leaving behind a weary horse.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" color="#000080">Vigilance
is admired. Negligence is reproved. By vigilance,
Indra become the highest among the gods.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" color="#000080">The
Bhikkhu who delights in vigilance and who shuns
negligence advances like a fire consuming all
bonds, both small and great.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" color="#000080">The
Bhikkhu who takes pleasure in vigilance and who
shuns negligence can no longer fall. He draws
near to Nirvana.</font></p>
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<center><h2>The Mind</h2></center>
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<p align=justify><font face=Garamond color=#000080 size=3><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Just
as the arrow-maker straightens his arrows, so also</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">the
intelligent man straightens his thoughts, wavering
and fickle, difficult to keep straight, difficult
to master.</font></font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Just
as a fish cast out of the water, our mind quivers
and gasps when it leaves behind the kingdom of
Mara.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Difficult
to master and unstable is the mind, forever in
search of pleasure. It is good to govern it. A mind
that is controlled brings happiness.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
sage should remain master of his thoughts,
for they are subtle and difficult to seize and always
in search of pleasure. A mind that is well
guided brings happiness.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Wandering
afar, solitary, bodiless and hidden in the deep cave
of the heart, such is the mind. Whosoever succeeds
in bringing it under control liberates himself
from the fetters of Mara-</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
intelligence Of One whose id is unstable, who
is ignorant of the true Law, and whose faith is
wavering will never be able to develop.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
a man's thoughts are not agitated if his mind is not
troubled by desire, if he no longer cares for good
and evil, this man, wide awake, knows nothing
of fear.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Observing
that the body is as fragile as a jar, and fortifying
the mind like a city at arms, one should attack
Mara with the blade of intelligence and should
guard carefully whatever has been won.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Before
long this body will be lying on the earth, abandoned,
as. lifeless as a piece of old wood.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whatever
an enemy may do to an enemy, whatever a hater
may do lo a hater, the harm caused by a misdirected
mind is even greater still.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Neither
mother nor father nor any other kinsman can do
so much good as a well-directed mind.</font></p>
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<center><h2>The Flowers</h2></center>
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<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Who
will conquer this world of illusion and the kingdom
Of Yama<sup>1</sup> and the world of
the gods? Who will discover the path of the Law as
the skilled gardener discovers the rarest of flowers
?</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
disciple on the right path will conquer this world
of illusion and the kingdom of Yama and the world
of the gods. He will discover the path of the Law
as the skilled gardener discovers the rarest of flowers.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Knowing
his body to be as impermanent as foam and as illusory
as a mirage, the disciple on the right path will shatter
the flowery arrow of Mara and will rise beyond the
reach of the King of Death.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Death
carries away the man who seeks only the flowers of
sensual pleasure just as torrential floods carry away
a sleeping village.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Death,
the destroyer, overcomes the man who seeks only the
flowers of sensual pleasure before he can satisfy
himself.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
sage should go from door 10 door in his village, as
the bee gathers honey from the flowers without bringing
harm to their colours or their fragrance.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Do
not criticise others for what they do or have not
done, but be aware of what, Yourself, You do or have
not done.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Just
as a beautiful flower which is radiant yet
lacks fragrance, so are the beautiful words of one
who does not act accordingly.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Just
as a beautiful flower which is both radiant and sweetly
scented, so are the beautiful words of one who acts
accordingly.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Just
as many garlands can be made from a heap of flowers,
so a mortal can accumulate much merit by good deeds.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fragrance of flowers, even that of sandalwood or incense,
even that of jasmine, cannot go against the wind;
but the sweet fragrance of intelligence goes against
the wind. All around the man if intelligence spreads
the fragrance of his virtue.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">No
fragrance, not even that id sandalwood or incense,
nor of the lotus nor of jasmine, can be compared with
the fragrance of intelligence.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Weak
is the fragracne of incense or sandalwood compared
to that of a virtuos man which reaches up to the highest
of divinities.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Mara
cannot discover the way that those beings follow who
lead a life of perfect purity and which are liberated
by their total knowledge.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">AS
the beautiful scented lily rises by the wayside, even
so the disciple of the Perfectly Enlightened One,<sup>1
</sup>radiant with intelligence, rises from
the blind and ignorant multitude.</font></p>
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<center><h2>The Fool</h2></center>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Long
is the night for one who<b> </b>sleeps not,
long is the ,road for one who is weary, long
is the cycle of births, for the fool who knows
not the true law.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
a man cannot find a companion who is superior
or even his equal, he should resolutely follow
a solitary path; for no good can come from companionship
with a fool.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fool torments himself by thinking, mine, this
wealth is mine." How can he and riches, who
does not possess himself ?</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fool who recognises his foolishness is at least wise
in that. But the fool who thinks he is intelligent,
is a fool indeed.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Even
if the fool serves an intelligent man through
his life, he will nevertheless remain ignorant
of truth, just as the spoon knows not the taste
of soup.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
an intelligent man serves a wise man, if only
for t moment, he will quickly understand the
truth, just a, the tongue instantly perceives
the savour of the soup,</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fools, those who are ignorant, have no worse enemies
than themselves; bitter is the fruit they gather
from their evil actions.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
evil action which one repents later brings
only, regrets and the fruit one reaps will
be tears and lamentations.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
good action one does not need to repent later brings
no regret and 'he fruit One reaps will be contentment
and satisfaction.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">As
long as the evil action has not borne its fruits,
the fool imagines that it is as sweet as honey. But
when this action bears its fruits, he reaps only suffering.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Though
month after month the fool takes his food with the
tip of a blade Of <sup>1 </sup>Kusa
grass, he is not for all that worth a sixteenth Part
of one who has understood the truth.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">An
evil action does not yield its fruits immediately,
just as milk does not at once turn sour, but like
a fire covered with ashes, even so smoulders the evil
action.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whatever
vain knowledge a fool may have been able to acquire,
it leads, him only to his ruin, for it breaks his
head and destroys his worthier nature.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
foolish monk thirsts after reputation, and a high
rank among the Bhikkhus, after authority in the monastery
and veneration from ordinary men.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">"Let
ordinary men and holy ones esteem highly what I have
done,. let them obey me!" This is the longing of the
fool, whose pride increases more and more.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">One
path leads to earthly gain and quite another leads
to Nirvana. Knowing this, the Bhikkhu, the disciple
of the Perfectly Enlightened One, longs no more for
honour, but rather cultivates solitude.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font></p>
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<center><h2>The Sage</h2></center>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">We
should seek the company of the sage who shows us our
faults, as if he were showing us a hidden treasure;
it is best to cultivate relations with such a man
because he cannot be harmful to us. He will bring
us only good.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>One who exhorts us to good and dissuades us from doing
evil is appreciated, esteemed by the just man and
hated by the unjust.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>Do not seek the company or friendship of men of base
character, but let us consort with men of worth and
let us seek friendship with the best among men.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>He who drinks directly from the source of the Teaching
lives happy in serenity of mind. The sage delights
always in the Teaching imparted by the noble disciples
of the Buddha.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>Those who build waterways lead the water where they
want; those who make arrows straighten them; carpenters
shape their wood; the sage controls himself.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>No more than a mighty rock can be shaken by the wind,
can the sage be moved by praise or blame.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>The sage who has steeped himself in the Teaching, becomes
perfectly peaceful like a deep lake, calm and clear.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>Wherever he may be, the true sage renounces all pleasures.
Neither sorrow nor happiness can move him.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Neither
for his own sake, nor for the sake of others does
the sage desire children, riches or domains. He does
not aim for his own success by unjust ways. Such
a man is virtuous, wise and just.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Few
men cross to the other shore. Most men remain
and do no more than run up and down along shore.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>But those who live according to the Teaching cross
beyond the realm of Death, however difficult may be
the passage.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>The sage will leave behind the dark ways of but
he will following the way of light. He will his
home for the homeless life and in solitude will
seek the joy which is so difficult to find.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Having
renounced all desires and attachments of the senses,
the sage will cleanse himself of all the taints
of the mind.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">One
whose mind is well established in all the degrees
of knowledge, who, detached from all things delights
in his renunciation, and who has mastered his appetites,
he is resplendent, and even in this world he
attains Nirvana.</font></p>
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<center><h2>The Adept</h2></center>
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<p><font face=Garamond color=#000080 size=3><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">No
sorrow exists for one who has completed his journey,
who has let fall all cares, who is free in all his</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">parts,
who has cast off all bonds.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Those
who are heedful strive always and, like swans
leaving their lakes, leave one home after another.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Those
who amass nothing, who eat moderately, who have
Perceived the emptiness of all things and who
have attained unconditioned liberation, their path
is as difficult to trace as that of a bird in the
air.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">One
for whom all desires have Passed away and who
has perceived the emptiness of all things, who
cares little for food, who has attained unconditioned
liberation, his path is as difficult as that of trace
as that of a bird in the air.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Even
the Gods esteem one whose senses are controlled
as horses by the Charioteer one who is purged of
a[, Pride and freed from all Corruption.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">One
who fulfils his duty is as immovable as the earth
itself. He is as firm as a celestial pillar, pure
as an unmuddied lake. and for him the cycle
of births is completed.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Calm
are the thoughts, the words and the acts of one
who has, liberated himself by the true knowledge
and has achieved a perfect tranquillity.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
greatest among men is he who is not credulous</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font color=#000080>but
has the sense of the Uncreated, who has cut, an
ties, who has destroyed all occasion for rebirth.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whether
village or forest, plain or mountain, wherever the
adepts may dwell, that place is always delightful.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Delightful
are the forests which are shunned by the multitude.
There, the adept who is free from passion, will find
happiness, for he seeks not after pleasure.</font></p>
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</table><br>
<center><h2>The Thousands</h2></center>
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<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Better
than a thousand words devoid of meaning is a single
meaningful word which can bring tranquillity to one
who hears it.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Better
than a thousand verses devoid of meaning is
a single meaningful verse which can bring tranquillity
one who hears it.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Better
than the repetition of a hundred verses devoid,
of meaning is the repetition of a single
verse of the Teaching which can bring tranquillity
to one who hears it.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
greatest conqueror is not he who is victorious
over thousands of men in battle, but he who is
victorious over himself.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
victory that one wins over oneself is of value
than victory over all the peoples.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">No
god, no Gandharva<sup>1</sup>, nor Mara
nor Brahma<sup>2</sup> can change
that victory to defeat.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">if,
month after month, for a hundred years one offers
sacrifices by the thousand, and if for a single
one offers homage to, a being full of wisdom
single homage is worth more than all those countless
sacrifices.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
for a hundred years a man tends the flame on Agnis
altar, and if, for a single instant, he renders
homage to a man who has mastered his nature, this
brief</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">
<font color=#000080>homage has more value than
all his long devotions.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whatever
the sacrifices and ablations a man in this world
may offer throughout a whole year in order to
acquire merit, that is not worth even a quarter
of the homage offered to a just man.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">For
one who is respectful to his elders, four things
increase. long life, beauty, happiness and strength.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
single day spent in good conduct and meditation is
worth more than a hundred years spent in immorality
and dissipation.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
single day of wisdom and meditation is worth more
than a hundred years spent in foolishness
and dissipation.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
single day of strength and energy is worth more
than a hundred years spent in indolence and inertia.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
single day lived in the perception that all things
appear and disappear is worth more than a hundred
years spent not knowing that they appear and disappear.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
single day spent in contemplation of the path of
immortality is worth more than a hundred years
lived in ignorance, of the path of immortality.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
single day spent in contemplation of the supreme
Truth is worth more than a hundred years lived
in ignorance of the supreme Truth.</font></p>
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<center><h2>Evil</h2></center>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Hasten
towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts,
for to do good without enthusiasm is to have a mind,
which delights in evil.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
one does an evil action, he should not persist in
it, he should not delight in it. For full of suffering
is the accumulation of evil.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
one does a good action, he should persist in it and
take delight in it- Full of happiness is the accumulation
of good.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">As
long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evildoer
may experience contentment. But when it ripens,
the Wrongdoer knows unhappiness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">As
long as his good action has not Yet ripened, one
who does good May experience unhappiness. But when
it ripens, the good man knows happiness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Do
not treat evil lightly, saying, "That will not touch
me". A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the
fool fills himself little by little with wickedness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Do
not treat good lightly, saying, "That will not touch
me". A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the
sage fills himself little by little with goodness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
merchant who is carrying many precious goods and
who has but few companions, avoids dangerous</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">roads,
and a<b> </b>man who loves his life is wary
of poison. Even so should one act regarding
evil.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">A
hand that has no wound can carry poison with impunity,
act likewise, for evil cannot touch the righteous
man.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
you offend one who is pure, innocent and defenceless,
the insult will fall back on you, as if you threw
dust against the wind.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Some
are reborn here on earth, evil-doers go to the
worlds of Niraya,<sup>l</sup> the
just go to the heavenly worlds, but those who
have freed themselves from all desire attain
Nirvana.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Neither
in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean,
nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does
there exist a place where a man can find refuge
from his evil actions.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Neither
in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean,
nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does
there exist a place where a man can hide from
death.</font></p>
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<center><h2>Punishment</h2></center>
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<p><font face=Garamond color=#000080 size=3><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">All
tremble when faced with punishment; all fear</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">death-
Seeing others as ourselves, do not strike, do not
cause another to strike.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">All
tremble when faced with punishment, life is dear
to all. Seeing others as ourselves', do not strike,
do not cause another to strike.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whosoever
hurts creatures eager for happiness for the
sake of his own happiness, nevertheless will not
obtain it after his death.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Whosoever
does not hurt creatures eager for happiness
for the sake of his own happiness, will obtain
it after death.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Never
speak harsh words to anyone, for they will be
returned to you. Angry words cause suffering
and one who utters them will bear them
in return.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
you remain as silent as a broken gong, you
have</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">already
entered Nirvana, for violence no, longer abides
in you.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">As
the cowherd, with his stick, drives the herd to pasture,
so old age and death drive the life out of all
living beings.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fool does evil without knowing it, he is consumed
and tormented by his actions as by a fire.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">One
who does harm to one who does none, one who
offends one who offends not, will soon suffer one
Of the ten states that follow:</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">He
will endure intense pain, he will suffer disastrous
losses and terrible injury, serious illness, madness.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Or
he will come in conflict with authority, he will be
the object of gross calumny, he will lose his near
ones or his possessions. </font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Or
else fire will destroy his dwelling-place, and at
the time of the dissolution of his body he
will be reborn in Hell. </font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Neither
going naked or with matted hair, nor remaining dirty,
nor fasting, nor sleeping on the bare ground, nor
smearing the body with ashes, nor the practice of
ascetic postures, can purity the mortal who has not
cast away all doubt.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">However
richly he is dressed, if a man cultivates tranquility
of mind, if he is calm, resigned, master of himself,
pure, if he does no harm to any creature, he is a
Brahmin, he is an ascetic, he is a Bhikku.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Is
there in this world a man beyond reproach that merits
no blame, as a thoroughbred needs no blow from the
whip ?</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Like
a spirited horse, be quick and eager for the goal.
By trust, virtue, energy, meditation, the quest for
truth, perfection of knowledge and conduct, by faith
destroy in you all suffering.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Those
who build waterways lead the water where they</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">
<font color=#000080>Want; those who make arrows
straighten them; carpenters shape their wood; the
sage controls himself.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3"><spacer size="36"
type="HORIZONTAL"></spacer>One has the impression that these things were written
for rather primitive people, The series of calamities
that will befall you if you do harm is quite amusing.</font></p>
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<p><font face=Garamond color=#000080 size=3><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Why
this joy, </font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">this
gladness, when the world is forever burning
? O you who are enveloped in shadows, why do
you not seek the light?</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">See
then this poor decorated form, this mass of corruptible
elements, of infirmities and vain desires
in which nothing is lasting or stable.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">This
fragile body is but a nest of misery,
of decrepitude and corruption; for life
ends in death.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">What
pleasure is there in contemplating these white
bones strewn like gourds in autumn ?</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">In
this fortress made of bone and covered with
flesh and blood, only pride and jealousy,
dissolution and death are established.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Even
the gorgeous chariots of kings are worn out
in the end; It is the same with
this body which at last is worn out
with age,, but the true Law is never
worn out and so one sage can pass it
on to another.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
ignorant man grows older like a bullock; his
weight increases but not his intelligence.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Many
times have I passed in vain through the cycle
of births in search of the builder of this house.
And how painful is this cycle of births</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">At
last, I have found you, builder, never again shall
you build this house that is my body. All the beams
are shattered and the ridge of the roof has crumbled.</font><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>
<br>
</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">My
liberated mind has attained the extinction of all
desires.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Those
who have not lived a life of self-control and
who, in their youth, have not known how to gather
the true riches, perish like aged herons beside
a lake with no fish.</font></p>
<p align=justify><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Those
who have not lived a life of self-control and
who, in their youth, have not known how to gather
the true riches are like shattered bows; they
grieve for their lost strength.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">
</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
a man holds himself dear, let him guard himself closely.
The sage should watch through one of the three vigils
of his existence (youth,. maturity, or old age).</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">One,
should begin by establishing oneself in the right
path; then, one will be able to advise others. Thus
the sage is above all reproach.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">If
on puts into, practice what, he teaches to others,
being master of himself, he can very well guide others,,
for in truth it is difficult to master oneself.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">In
truth, one is one's own master, for what other master
can there be ? By mastering oneself,, one acquires
a mastery which Is difficult to achieve.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
evil done by himself, originated by himself, emanating
from him, crushes the fool as the diamond crushes
a hard gem.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Just
as the creeper clings to the Sal free, even so one
entrapped by his own evil actions does to himself
the harm his enemy would wish him.,</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">It
is so easy to d o oneself wrong I and harm, but how
difficult it is to do what is good and profitable!</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">The
fool who, because of his wrong his views, rejects
the teachings of the adepts, the Noble Ones and the
Just, brings about his own destruction, as the fruit
of the bamboo kills the plant.</font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000080" size="3">Doing
evil, one harms oneself, avoiding evil, one purifies