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Who need cook, or who need grind? Wherever ye cast your eyes, ye may see provisions.
27. Meditate on the nature of your bodies, which resemble earthen vessels; and put every thing away from them, which is not allied to God.
28. Didú sayeth, I take for my spiritual food, the water and the leaf of Rám. For the world I care not, but God's love is unfathomable.
29. Whatever is the will of God, will assuredly happen; therefore do not destroy yourselves by anxiety, but listen.
30. What hope can those have elsewhere, even if they wandered over the whole earth, who abandon God? oh foolish one! righteous men who have meditated on this subject, advise you to abandon all things but God, since all other things are affliction.
31. It will be impossible for you to profit any thing, if you are not with God, even if you were to wander from country to country; therefore, oh ignorant, abandon all other things, for they are affliction, and listen to the voice of the holy.
32. Accept with patience the offering of truth, believing it to be true; fix your heart on God, and be humble as though you were dead.
33. He who meditateth on the wisdom which is concealed, eateth his morsel and is without desires. The holy praise liis name, who hath no illusion.
31. Have no desires, but accept what circumstances may bring before you; because whatever God pleaseth to direct, can never be wrong.
35. Have no desires, but eat in faith and with meditation whatever chances to fall in your way. Go not about, tearing from the tree, which is invisible.
36. Have no desires, but take the food which chances to fall in your way, believing it to be correct, because it cometh from God; as much as if it were a mouthful of atmosphere.
37. All things are exceeding sweet to those who love God; they would never style them bitter, even if filled with poison; on the contrary, they would accept them, as if they were ambrosia.
