object:19.08 - Thousands
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
The Adept On Evil
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta DhammapadaPaliThousands
Thousands
[1]
Better than a thousand phrases built with meaningless words is one single meaningful word which brings tranquillity to the hearer.
[2]
Better than a thousand verses built with meaningless words is one single verse that brings tranquillity to the hearer.
[3]
Better than a hundred verses built with meaningless words on the lips is one single word of the Law that tranquilises you when you hear it.
[4]
One may conquer thousands and thousands of men in a battle, but he is the best among conquerors who has conquered himself.
[5 & 6]
Better to have conquered one's own self than to have conquered all these peoples.
And if one has conquered the self and moves always self-controlled, neither gods nor angels nor Mara nor even Brahma can change that victory of his into defeat.
[7]
If month after month one offers sacrifices by thousands for one hundred years and if one worships an accomplished soul even for a single moment, then this worship is greater than the other hundred-year sacrifice.
[8]
If for hundred years one tended the fire in a forest, and if one worshipped an accomplished soul even for a single moment, then that worship is worth more than the sacrifice done through hundred years.
[9]
Whatever sacrifice or offering is made in this world for a whole year, in expectation of merit, is not worth even a fourth part of that greater thing, the homage done to the Righteous.
[10]
In him who is always full of respect for the aged, these four attributes increase; life, beauty, happiness and strength.
[11]
Better than one who lives a hundred years in immorality and dissipation is one who lives a single day in righteousness and contemplation.
[12]
Better than one who lives a hundred years in ignorance and dissipation is the one who lives one single day in wisdom and meditation.
[13]
Better than one who lives a hundred years in indolence and inertia is the one who lives a single day in strength and energy.
[14]
Better than one who lives a hundred years seeing neither the beginning nor the end is the one who lives a single day seeing both the beginning and the end.
[15]
Better than one who lives a hundred years and does not see the seat of immortality is one who lives a single day but sees the seat of immortality.
[16]
Better than one who lives a hundred years not seeing the Supreme Law is the one who lives a single day but sees the Supreme Law.
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