Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5

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Who will conquer this Earth and this world of Death and the world of the gods as well?

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Who will find out and show the Right Path even like an expert florist?

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The Disciple will conquer the Earth and this world of Death and the world of the gods as well.

The Disciple will find out and show the Right Path even like an expert florist.

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He knows this body to be like foam, he recognises it to be of the same nature as a mirage. He cleaves the flowery shafts of the Tempter, he passes beyond the sight of King Death.

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As a mighty flood overtakes a sleeping village, even so Death comes and takes away the man with an obsessed mind busy collecting only flowers here.

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Death possesses the man who is never satisfied in his desires, who is busy collecting only flowers here with an obsessed mind.

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The wise one will move on from door to door in a village, even like a bee that collects honey from flower to flower hurting neither their colour nor their fragrance.

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Do not look at the lapses of others, what they have done or not done. Look only at what you have yourself done or not done.

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Even like a flower with beauty and colour but without fra­grance, a word well spoken is barren unless it is acted upon.

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Even like a flower with beauty and colour and with fragrance, a word well spoken is fruitful when acted upon.

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As out of a heap of flowers one can' make great many garlands, even so a mortal in this birth may do great many good deeds.

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The fragrance of a flower does not move against the wind, neither the fragrance of sandal, nor of incense nor of jasmine. But the fragrance of the saint travels against the wind; like the wind the holy man spreads himself everywhere.

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Whether it is sandal or incense or jasmine or lily, nothing has a perfume superior to that of good conduct.

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A little thing it is, this fragrance that is in incense and sandal; but the fragrance that emanates from the righteous is the fairest that blows towards the gods.

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Mara cannot find out the way of those who have realised the virtues, who live and move without error and delusion, who have gained perfect knowledge and so attained liberation.

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As the lotus blooms, fragrant and beautiful, out of a heap of rubbish left on the highway, even so, among the ignorant and blinded masses of men the disciple of the Perfectly Enlightened shines out in his knowledge.

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