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Dhammapada
Chapter XXII: The Downward Course (312)
An act carelessly performed, a broken vow, and hesitating obedience to discipline, all this brings no great reward.
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.8)
He who abandons obligatory duties from fear of bodily discomfort, as painful (to the body), thus does Tamasic renunciation and obtains not the fruit...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: Preface. the Author's Object. the Utility of Written Compositions. (11)
We must, as far as we can, imitate the Lord.I And he will do so, who complies with the will of God, receiving freely, giving freely, and receiving as ...
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.23)
He who discards the injunctions of the scriptures and acts upon the impulse of desire attains neither perfection nor happiness nor the Supreme Goal.
The Path of Light
Chapter 4: Heedfulness in the Thought of Enlightenment (2)
Numberless are the Enlightened who have passed by in search of all living beings; and through my own fault I have not come into their healing hands. I...
The Masnavi
The Darvesh who Broke his Vow (Summary)
There was once a Darvesh who took up his abode in the mountains, in order to enjoy perfect solitude. In that place were many fruit-trees, and the...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto V (3)
The other, which is known to thee as matter, May well indeed be such that one errs not If it for other matter be exchanged. But let none shift the bur...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XXXVIII (38.2)
Christ did not lead such a life as His for the sake of reward, but out of love; and love maketh such a life light and taketh away all its hardships, s...
The Conference of the Birds
Question of the Twelfth Bird (3)
A king gave a robe of honour to a slave, who went away very pleased with himself. As he walked along, the dust of the street settled on him, and he...
Bhagavad Gita
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.13)
And that sacrifice which is not performed according to the scriptural rules, and in which no food is distributed, no hymns are chanted, and no fees pa...
The Path of Light
Chapter 7: The Perfect Strength (11)
As poison that has reached the blood spreads through the body, so the sin that finds a weak spot spreads through the spirit. A man carrying a bowl...
The Path of Light
Chapter 7: The Perfect Strength (6)
In setting his hand to a work one should foster pride, according to the rule of the Vajra-dhvaja Sutra. When he has first considered the sum of...
The Path of Light
Chapter 4: Heedfulness in the Thought of Enlightenment (1)
THE son of the Conqueror, who has thus firmly laid hold of the Thought of Enlightenment, must constantly strive without slackening to observe the...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.25)
Whatever action is undertaken from delusion, without regard to consequences of loss (of money etc), injury (to himself and others), and (one’s own)...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (34)
Transgressions are injury, falsehood, theft, incontinence, envy; whether committed, or caused, or assented to, through greed, wrath, or infatuation;...
Bhagavad Gita
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.12)
But that sacrifice which is performed in expectation of reward and for the sake of ostentation— know that to be of the nature of rajas.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto V (2)
Now wilt thou see, if thence thou reasonest, The high worth of a vow, if it he made So that when thou consentest God consents: For, closing between...
The Masnavi
The Man who boasted that God did not punish him for his sins, and Jethro's answer to him (47-55)
One sign that I punish him is this, That he observes obedience and fasting and prayer, And devotions and almsgiving, and so on, He performs the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Excellence and Utility of Faith. (3)
There being then a twofold species of vice - that characterized by craft and stealth, and that which leads and drives with violence - the divine Word...
Bhagavad Gita
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.28)
Whatever sacrifice or gift is made, whatever austerity is practised, whatever ceremony is observed— it is all called “asat,” “non-existent,” if it is...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (21-30)
O careless straggler, bind a rope upon thy feet, Lest thou lose even thine own self! But thy ingratitude and unthankfulness That road was perforce...
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