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The Masnavi
Mahmud and Ayaz (continued) (84-93)
Just so 'tis your idea of your terrible foe O Moses, thy revelations shed glory on the mount, Be not too proud, but know that you must first endure The idea of the Truth, and thence come to the reality. No one is frightened by the mere idea of fighting, For "no courage is needed before fighting begins." In the mere idea of fighting a coward can imagine The pictures of Rustam on the wall of a bath Are similar to a coward's ideas of fighting. But when these ideas are tested by actual sight,
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (61)
Just in this manner thou settest, and no other, when thou art in the Pleasures of the Flesh; if thou wilt not fight, thou canst not look for any...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.59)
If, indulging egotism, thou thinkest 'I will not fight,' vain is this, thy resolve; nature will constrain thee.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (80)
Come on, brave Sir, upon thy brown Nag! who ridest from Heaven into Hell, and from Hell into Death, and therein the Sting of Death lies; view thyself...
Enuma Elish
Tablet II (48)
"'[Whoso is exalted in the battle], let him display (his) might!'"
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State (24.5)
O nobly-born, at about that time, the fierce wind of karma, terrific and hard to endure, will drive thee [onwards], from behind, in dreadful gusts....
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto II (2)
Upon this journey, whence thou givest him vaunt, Things did he hear, which the occasion were Both of his victory and the papal mantle. Thither went...
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (52)
"'Whoso is exalted in the battle, let him display (his) might! '