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truthfulness, and harmlessness, Patience and honour,
reverence for the wise. Purity, constancy, control of self, Contempt
of sense-delights, self-sacrifice, Perception of the certitude of
ill In birth, death, age, disease, suffering, and sin; Detachment,
lightly holding unto home, Children, and wife, and all that binded
men; An ever-tranquil heart in fortunes good And fortunes evil, with
a will set firm To worship Me- Me only! ceasing not;
Loving all solitudes, and shunning noise
Of foolish crowds; endeavors resolute To reach perception of the
Utmost Soul, And grace to understand what gain it were So to
attain,- this is true Wisdom, Prince! And what is otherwise is
ignorance!
Now will I speak of knowledge best to
know- That Truth which gived man Amrit to drink, The Truth of HIM,
the Para-Brahm, the All, The Uncreated; not Asat, nor Sat, Not Form,
nor the Unformed; yet both, and more;- Whose hands are everywhere,
and everywhere Planted His feet, and everywhere His eyes Beholding,
and His ears in every place Hearing, and all His faces everywhere
Enlightening and encompassing His worlds.
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