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For one tasting the bliss of the self, scriptures are redundant. Why eat hollow pastries when you can relish nourishing ones?
Lament only for yourself, not others—for your life shortens with each moment, whether active or idle.
An angry man destroys self and others, abandons dharma, commits sin, insults the worthy, and speaks abusively—what won’t wrathful man do?
Whether the ocean dries or floods the cosmos, the skyward-thirsty chataka bird neither loses nor gains—it only waits for pure raindrop.
A man reveals his self by his actions—good or bad. Even a fallen family lineage can be restored by righteous deeds.
You know, create, and dissolve yourself through yourself. The self alone is both agent and outcome.
Seeing herself beautifully in the mirror, with large calm eyes, she hastened to Shiva’s procession—for women, appearance fulfills love.
One who conquers the self, first as a ruler of self-nation, can then conquer ministers and enemies—self-mastery is true victory.
One must first desire a virtuous self, then manifest those virtues, before assessing others. Self-perfection precedes judgment.
This self is not mine, nor the earth. As it belongs to me, so to others. With this understanding, one feels no sorrow.
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