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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
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.23)
He who, neglecting the scriptural ordinance, acts under the impulse of desire, attains not perfection, nor happiness, nor the Supreme Goal.
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.8)
Whatever act one may abandon because it is painful, from fear of bodily trouble, he practises Râjasic abandonment, and he shall obtain no fruit...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.7)
Verily, the abandonment of an obligatory duty is not proper; the abandonment thereof from ignorance is declared to be Tâmasic.
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 ...
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...
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 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
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.28)
Whatever is sacrificed, given, or done, and whatever austerity is practised, without faith, it is called 'asat,' O Pârtha; it is naught here or...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.48)
The duty born with oneself, O son of Kuntî, though faulty, one ought not to abandon; for, all undertakings are surrounded with evil, as fire with...
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;...
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
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.12)
The threefold fruit of action, — evil, good, and mixed, — accrues after death to non-abandoners, but never to abandoners.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: The Objection to Join the Church on Account of the Diversity of Heresies Answered. (4)
If one, then, violate his engagements, and go aside from the confession which he makes before us, are we not to stick to the truth because he has beli...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.16)
He who follows not here the wheel thus set in motion, who is of sinful life, indulging in senses, he lives in vain, O son of Pritha.
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.8)
Do thou perform (thy) bounden duty; for, action is superior to inaction. And even the maintenance of the body would not be possible for thee by...
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (3)
'Unblessed, surely, are the worlds to which a man goes by giving (as his promised present at a sacrifice) cows which have drunk water, eaten hay,...
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