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Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (340)
The channels run everywhere, the creeper (of passion) stands sprouting; if you see the creeper springing up, cut its root by means of knowledge.
Bhagavad Gita
Puruṣhottama Yoga (15.2)
Above and below spread its branches, nourished by the gunas. Sense-objects are its buds; and its clustering roots spread downward in the world of...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (72-81)
Corresponding to that root grow up branches The tops of the perfect trees reach the heavens, The roots firm, and the branches in the sky. Since then...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 11 (1)
If he were to strike at its stem, it would bleed, but live. If he were to strike at its top, it would bleed, but live. Pervaded by the living Self tha...
Katha Upanishad
Fourth Vallī (14)
'As rain-water that has fallen on a mountain-ridge runs down the rocks on all sides, thus does he, who sees a difference between qualities, run after...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (182-191)
Ho! seek aid of Him, not of another than Him Seek water in the ocean, not in a dried-up channel. On cleansing the inward temple of the heart from...
The Masnavi
The Old Man who made no Lamentation at the Death of his Sons (21-30)
When they are swept aside, the water is seen; But when God unlooses not the hands of reason, The weeds on our water grow thick through carnal lust;...
Gospel of Philip
Hidden Parts (Hidden Parts)
As long as their [insides] are hidden, [most] beings in the world are alive and well. [If their insides] are exposed, they die, as is clear by the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Mosaic Law the Fountain of All Ethics, and the Source From Which the Greeks Drew Theirs. (14)
This type of husbandry may serve as a mode of instruction, teaching that we must cut the growths of sins, and the useless weeds of the mind that...
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.17)
From sattva springs knowledge, and from rajas, greed; from tamas spring inadvertence, delusion, and ignorance.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 11 (2)
'But if the life (the living Self) leaves one of its branches, that branch withers; if it leaves a second, that branch withers; if it leaves a third,...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (7)
This is like one who does not plunge into the ocean will never find the priceless pearl. Likewise, a man who does not enter the ocean of klesa will ne...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (6)
As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. the True. Yes, all these creatures, O son, ...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.9)
On it, they say, is white and blue And yellow and green and red. That was the path by Brahma found; By it goes the knower of Brahma, the doer of...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (6.3.13)
This, indeed, did Satyakama Jabala tell to his pupils, and say: ' Even if one should pour this on a dry stump, branches would be produced and leaves...
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...
Bhagavad Gita
Puruṣhottama Yoga (15.1)
The Lord said: They speak of an imperishable Aśvattha Tree with its root above and branches below. Its leaves are the Vedas, and he who knows it...
Bhagavad Gita
Jnana Yoga (4.42)
Therefore, with the sword of Knowledge cut asunder the doubt born of ignorance about the Self, dwelling in the heart and take refuge in Yoga. Arise, O...
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (14)
The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path (to the Self) is hard.'...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: Some Points in the Beatitudes. (5)
It is therefore necessary to learn how to make use of every occurrence, so as by a good life, according to knowledge, to be trained for the state of e...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
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