Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5

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Let us live happily without enmity among enemies;

Among men inimical let us dwell without enmity.

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Let us live happily without affliction among the afflicted;

Among men afflicted let us dwell without affliction.

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Let us live happily without greed among the greedy:

Among greedy men let us dwell without greed.

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Let us live happily we who have nothing, nothing at all:

We shall feed upon delight even like the gods.

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Victory breeds enmity, the victim lies in distress;

The tranquillised soul dwells in happiness abandoning victory and defeat.

[6]

There is no fire like lust, no viper like hatred;

There is no misery like life's yoke. And happiness none like the Supreme Calm.

[7]

Hunger is the worst malady, life-will the worst calamity:

Knowing this perfectly, one knows that Nirvana is the supreme Felicity.

[8]

Health is the supreme gain, contentment the supreme wealth;

Faith is the supreme kinsman, Nirvana the supreme Happiness.

[9]

He has tasted the sweetness of solitude, he has tasted the

sweetness of the final Peace;    

So he is become fearless and sinless, he has drunk of the devotion

to the Law.

[10]

It is good to meet the Noble Ones, it is always a happiness

to live with them;

And it is always a happiness not to have sight of the ignorant.

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One who moves with the ignorant, goes grieving a long way,

To live with the ignorant is as painful as to live always with

the enemy;

To live with the wise is happiness even like the company of

one's own kinsmen.

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Therefore seek the steadfast, the wise, the learned, the

            patient, the perseverant, the Noble Ones,

Seek such high souls, illumined intelligences even as the

            moon follows the path of the stars.

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