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[ 48 ] Religiousness is that attitude or activity by which thinking and feeling are being purified.
[ 49 ] It is a good thing not to be proud of our caste, lineage, strength, beauty, austerity, wealth, wisdom or gain; but our mental purity, and our religious activity too ought not to be capable of making us conceited.
[ 50 ] An Aryan is he who remains aloof from all objectionable actions.
[51] Indulging in sensual enjoyment makes a soul fall from its spiritual heights. It is like lying down on a couch made of untwisted threads, which nobody could do without falling to the ground.
( 52 ) Birth as a human being is like a wish-tree, which one must not allow to wither from the brine of sensuality and passion.
[ 53 ) On being united with the desirable, thou shalt not exult, and on being separated from it, thou shalt not grieve. Nor shalt thou grieve on being united with the undesirable, nor exult on being separated from it.
( 54 ) The happiness and pain, which the soul has to experience, are imparted by fate alone, and fate is nothing but the consequence of our good or evil deeds.
[ 55 ] Meditating on the dispassionate makes the soul approach the ideal state of dispassionateness, and meditating on the impassioned makes it impassioned.
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