Be not thoughtless, watch your thoughts! |
Before long, alas! this body will lie on the earth, despised, without understanding, like a useless log. |
Better than sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than lordship over all worlds, is the reward of the first step in holiness. |
Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body! |
But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting. |
But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent. |
But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the greatest taint. |
But those who, when the law has been well preached to them, follow the law, will pass across the dominion of death, however difficult to overcome. |
By earnestness did Indra rise to the lordship of the gods. |
By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. |
By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. |
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death |
Come, look at this glittering world, like unto a royal chariot; the foolish are immersed in it, but the wise do not touch it. |
Cut down the whole forest (of lust), not a tree only! |
Cut off the five (senses), leave the five, rise above the five. |