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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (6.1.3)
Verily, he who knows the most excellent becomes the most excellent of his own [people]. Speech, verily, is the most excellent. He who knows this becomes the most excellent of his own [people] and even of those of whom he wishes so to become.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (2)
He who knows the richest, becomes himself the richest. Speech indeed is the richest.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (1)
He who knows the oldest and the best becomes himself the oldest and the best. Breath indeed is the oldest and the best.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (24)
Thus he, being magnanimous, possessing, through knowledge, what is the most precious of all, the best of all, being quick in applying himself to...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (6)
And to the Great Creator (shall there be) a Realm such as that (whose strength I asked for victory ), and which (at the last) shall flourish in its ho...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 2 (2)
'He who meditates on speech as Brahman, is, as it were, lord and master as far as speech reaches he who meditates on speech as Brahman.' 'Sir, is...
Mundaka Upanishad
Third Mundaka, First Khanda (4)
He revels in the Self, he delights in the Self, and having performed his works (truthfulness, penance, meditation, &c.) he rests, firmly established i...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 48 — Spenta Mainyu Gatha (3)
(Yea, tell me then this), for to the enlightened man is that the best of teachings which the beneficent Ahura doth proclaim, and through (the...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVI: Pleasure (217)
He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (5)
He who knows the home, becomes a home of his people. The mind indeed is the home.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (4)
He who knows success, his wishes succeed, both his divine and human wishes. The ear indeed is success.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 8 (3)
Speech yields the milk, which is the milk of speech itself, to him who knowing this meditates on the sevenfold Sâman in speech. He becomes rich in...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 45 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (5)
Yea, thus I will declare that which the most bountiful One told me, that word which is the best to be heeded by mortals. They who therein grant me...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter IX (9.2)
If thou knowest thyself well, thou art better and more praiseworthy before God, than if thou didst not know thyself, but didst understand the course o...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 45 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (6)
Aye, thus I will declare forth Him who is of all the greatest, praising through my Righteousness, I who do aright, those who (dispose of all as well...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 51 — Vohu Khshathra Gatha (16)
(And one of you, the greatest, has indeed attained to that wisdom which is thus blessed with a promise), Kavi Vîstâspa has reached it in the Realm of...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (94)
Secondly, If one nowadays has learnt more in worldly sciences, or studied more than the vulgar or layman, in an instant no vulgar or layman is to be...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (19)
Let them hear Him who conceived of the Righteous Order for the worlds, the (all)-wise One, O Ahura! For truthful speech He rules with absolute sway...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (8)
For we do not practise what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory,," says the apos...
Bhagavad Gita
Vijnana Yoga (7.18)
Noble indeed are they all; but the man endowed with wisdom I deem to be My very Self. For, steadfast in mind, he remains fixed in Me alone as the...
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