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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XV
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Bundahishn
Chapter XV (11)
When they had devoured the milk Mâshya said to Mâshyôî thus: 'My delight was owing to it when I had not devoured the milk, and my delight is more delightful now when it is devoured by my vile body.'
The Masnavi
The Visions seen by the Saint Daquqi (100-108)
On its killing the cow of the body, the source of evil. Lust says, "Why hast thou killed my cow?" It says, "Because lust's cow is the form of the...
The Masnavi
The Three Travelers (11-20)
Those two exalted ones have found exalted science, And rivaled the very angels in intellect; O humble and simple and despised one, Arise and eat of...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (18)
She had learned about evil; she went away from them and she entered into a new conduct. Afterwards she despises this life, because it is transitory. A...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (22-31)
Like the earth or like a fetus I devour blood, If that 'Faithful Spirit' should shed my blood, At night I boil on the fire like a cooking-pot, It...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 13 (4)
Speech yields the milk, which is the milk of speech itself to him who knows this Upanishad (secret doctrine) of the Sâmans in this wise. He becomes...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (8)
The desires beget harm in this world and beyond: here, by bondage, slaughter, and loss of limb; beyond, in hell. That for the sake of which thou hast...
The Masnavi
The Visions seen by the Saint Daquqi (41-50)
And my body learnt from the soul its mode of journeying, Now my body has renounced the bodily mode of journeying; It journeys secretly and without for...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (36)
And when the Spirit of this World perceived that, then it said; Why wilt thou only eat of that which thou comprehendest not, and drink of that which t...
The Masnavi
The Courtier who quarreled with his Friend for saving his Life (35-45)
Your true treasure is hidden under a false one, The false one is this transitory body of yours, Long time this milk is exposed to view, And the soul's...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 6 (2)
'In the same manner, my child, the subtile portion of earth (food), when eaten, rises upwards, and becomes mind.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter X: The Opinion of the Apostles on Veiling the Mysteries of the Faith. (11)
If, then, "the milk" is said by the apostle to belong to the babes, and "meat" to be the food of the full-grown, milk will be understood to be...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 16 (2)
'You eat food and see your desire, and whoever thus meditates on that Vaisvânara Self, eats food and sees his desire, and has Vedic glory in his...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (161-170)
I have never tasted wine sweeter than this poison, No health can be sweeter than this sickness! No devotion is better than this sin (of love), Years...
The Masnavi
The Three Travelers (70-78)
The mouse of the body drags it back with that string; Ah! what sorrow it tastes through being dragged back If it were not dragged down by that insolen...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (32-41)
At the words, ' Strike the corpse with part of her.' O pious ones, slay the cow (of lust), If ye desire true life of soul and spirit! I died as...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 10 (3)
Ushasti said: 'Give me to eat of them.' He gave him the beans, and said: 'There is something to drink also! Then said Ushasti: 'If I drank of it, I...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 15 (2)
'You eat food and see your desire, and whoever thus meditates on that Vaisvânara Self, eats food and sees his desire, and has Vedic glory in his...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (44)
But when it becomes false, so that its Essences flatter with the Spirit of the great World, and desire the Fulness of the World, viz. 1. [In] the [sou...
The Masnavi
Mahmud and Ayaz. 1 (1-11)
A loved one said to her lover to try him, Early one morning, "O such an one, son of such an one, I marvel whether you hold me more dear, Or yourself;...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (3)
When a man is thus said to be hungry, water is carrying away (digests) what has been eaten by him. Therefore as they speak of a cow-leader (go-nâya), ...
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