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In Search of the Ultimate
A wise monk never casts a glance at a painting, image or figure of a woman. If accidentally his eyes fall on a woman's body it rebounds back as from the midday sun.
A wise one does not wish for big dinners, precious jewellery or the company of women. He considers these things as obstructions in the path of liberation.
He does not look at a woman's figure, body, face, limbs and the shape of different parts of her body. He does not look into her eyes, because these things only increase desires and lust.
As gold gets purified in fire, a wise monk engaged in study and meditation, polite and virtuous, gets spiritually purified in the fire of austerity.
Humbleness (and a balanced mind which can differentiate) is the root of religion.
The supreme and ultimate goal of religion is emancipation
One who is impolite, ignorant, quarrelsome, destructive and who is cheating always floats in the stream like a piece of wood which gets carried away in the currents (of the materialism of this world)
Men and women, equipped with humble virtues attain happiness and prosperity with great fame.
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