Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5

Vigilance

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Vigilance is the way to immortality. Negligence the way to Death. The vigilant never dies; the negligent is already dead.

[2]

They know this thoroughly well, the wise in vigilance and they rejoice in their vigilance, ever in the presence of the Great Ones.

[3]

They who are intelligent, meditative, persevering, combat ceaselessly against themselves, reach the Nirvana that is supreme felicity.

[4]

He who is full of zeal, he who is mindful, he who is pure in deed, and acts thoughtfully, who is self-controlled and lives in accordance with the Law sees his fame ever growing.

[5]

By his zeal and vigilance and discipline and self-control, the intelligent man should create an island for himself which no flood can overwhelm.

[6]

The stupid, devoid of intelligence, give themselves to negli­gence. The intelligent guards vigilance as the supreme treasure.

[7]

Do not give yourself to negligence nor to the enjoyment of the passions. It is the vigilant, given to meditation, that attains the vast happiness.

[8]

The wise dispel negligence by vigilance, they climb to the heights of wisdom and griefless themselves they contemplate from a hilltop as it were the ignorant ones grieving on the plains.

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Vigilant among the negligent, wide awake among the slumber­ous, one intelligent goes fast like a steed that leaves behind a faint mount.

[10]

By vigilance Indra has become supreme among the gods. Vigilance is praiseworthy. Negilgence is always blameworthy.

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The Bhikkhu who is given to vigilance and who shuns negli­gence moves forward like a fire consuming all bonds, great or small.

[12]

The Bhikkhu who is given to vigilance and who shuns negli­gence never goes astray, he moves near unto Nirvana.

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