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Lesson - 5 Bhagavati Aradhana
1.
In the company of the wicked, even the virtuous man renounces for certain his own virtue, just as, with the contact of fire, water relinquishes its cold nature.
The light of knowledge (is) (the real) light. There is no vanishment of the light of knowledge. The sun illumines a small area, but knowledge (illumines) the total universe.
3.
The learning of a devotee certainly reaches its fullness and (it) is fruitful. Then, for the undevout how will the seed of emancipation fructify?
He who desires to move on the path of emancipation without the light of knowledge is (like) the blind person who desires to go to the forest in darkness.
5.
As many sufferings have pervaded in the four grades of existence (so many) are there in the world. Know those sufferings as the result of violence (Hiṁsā) to beings.
Water, sandal, moon, pearl, and even moon-stone do not produce such satisfaction to a person as the words (which are) beneficent, sweet, limited and endowed with meaning bring about.
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