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Light Abounding When light abounds, there is no room for darkness; as where darkness prevails, no room can be left for light. Similarly, where knowledge permeates, no room shall be left for passion; even as no scope shall be left for knowledge, where passion reigns supreme.
Artifice Ponder over this, my friends, with all the earnestness and equanimity at your command. You may strive your utmost to present a benign and attractive exterior; but of what avail will this spacious exterior prove, if your mind beneath be ugly and foul: You may succeed perchance in deceiving the world, in throwing dust in its eyes; but how could you contrive to inveigle your conscience, that ever-vigilant deity, the comrade of your eternal being? How would you manage to throw dust in his watchful eyes? Speak forth, my friends, speak! You will be stripped naked in the presence of your conscience. What, then, are you to do even as your eyes shall be besmeared with dust?
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