Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5

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If to give up a small pleasure is to find a vast pleasure, then it is wiser to give up the small in view of the vast.

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If one seeks one's pleasure by inflicting pain upon others, then one is entangled in the meshes of enmity and is not freed from it.

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To reject what should be done, to do what should not be done is just how the depraved and the deluded increase their sins.

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They who keep a perfect vigilance over their body, who do not indulge a thing that should not be done, ever doing faithfully what should be done, they are the good souls who have knowledge; sins disappear from them.

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He slays his father (egoism), he slays his mother (lust), he slays twin kings (wrong views), he slays the whole State with all its adherents (the senses) and still he remains the stainless, the Brahmin.

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He slays his father, he slays his mother, he slays the two warrior kings, he slays the fifth one, the tiger, and still he remains stainless, the Brahmin.

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They are truly awake in perfect wakefulness who follow Gautama who have their mind fixed upon the Buddha day and night.

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They are fully awake in perfect wakefulness who follow Gautama who have their mind fixed upon the Dharma day and night.

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They are fully awake in perfect wakefulness who follow Gautama, who have their mind fixed upon the Samgha.

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They are fully awake in perfect wakefulness who follow Gautama and have their mind vigilant about the body.

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They are fully awake in perfect wakefulness who follow Gautama and have their mind fixed upon compassion.

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They are fully awake in perfect wakefulness who follow Gautama and have their mind fixed upon meditation.

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A home is a painful thing, difficult to abandon, difficult to enjoy, difficult to inhabit. It is painful to live with unequals, painful to wander in the cycles. Do not wander, do not stray into suffering.

[14]

A man of faith and virtue, like a man of fame and wealth, receives worship wherever he happens to be.

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The wise one shines from afar even like the snowy Himalaya, the unwise one is invisible like an arrow shot in the night.

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One who sits alone, lies alone, walks alone untiringly, disciplining oneself all by oneself rejoices in his lonely forest.

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