Sifting the chaff from the grain.
I went seeking
The Like, Alike,
Thou art Narayan. thou art Narayan
Thou art Narayan, then,
Why this will- of- the- wisp ?
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What was it you had sown which should have borne a rich harvest?
shaped and stretched it taut on pegs,(Your only care your own body which you pegged to the bonds of desire) .But counsel to a fool is labour lost,Like a ball thrown at a big-sized pillar,rebounding but not hitting the mark;Or fruitless as feeding a tawny bullock on sweet molasses,And expect a yield of milk from…
Why have you sunk deep in the sea
Why have you pulled down the high-banked roadwhich could have led you safe across?The dense darkness of tamas surrounds you now,and, at the appointed time,Yama’s apparitors prepare to dragyour body bleeding to death.Who can dispel your fear of death?
Chidananda, the light of absolute knowledge
Are free, realised souls:Limitless, infinite,Hundreds of hundreds of timesIntertwined are the ignorantIn the cycle of life and death
He, who overcomes pride, greed, vanity
from his path,Facilitates his contemplation:And, in all humility, serves mankind,Discarding all else as uselessIs the real seeker of the Lord![Translated by P. N. Razdan (Mahanori)]
Impart not esoteric truth to fools,
Do not sow seed in sandy beds,Nor waste your oil on cakes of bran.
Who slays the highway robbers three,
And yet, in utter humility, serveshis fellow-men-He truly seeks out the Lord,disregarding as worthless ashesall other things.