Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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CHAPTER VI, 36.
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sees the self abiding in all beings, and all beings in the self'. To him who sees me in everything, and everything in me, I am never lost, and he is not lost to me. The devotee who worships me abiding. in all beings, holding that all is one, lives in me, however he may be living. That devotee, O Arguna ! is deemed to be the best, who looks alike a on pleasure or pain, whatever it may be, in all (creatures), comparing all with his own (pleasure or pain).
Arguna said: I cannot see, O destroyer of Madhu! (how) the sustained existence is to be secured) of this devotion by means of equanimity which you have declared in consequence of fickleness. For, O Krishna! the mind is fickle, boisterouso, strong, and obstinate; and I think that to restrain it is as difficult as (to restrain) the wind.
The Deity said: Doubtless, O you of mighty arms! the mind is difficult to restrain, and fickle?. Still, O son of Kuntil it may be restrained by constant practice and by indifference (to worldly objects). It is my belief, that devotion is hard to obtain for one who does not • restrain his self. But by one who is self-restrained
"Realises the essential unity of everything. • He has access to me, and I am kind to him. · Cr. Leopanishad, p. 13. • •Even abandoning all action,' says Sudhara; and cf. infra, p. 105.
• Who believes that pleasure and pain are as much liked or disliked by others as by himself, and puts himself in fact in the place of others.
• Troublesome to the body, senses, &c. 'CL Dhammapada, stanza 33 scq.
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