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LECTURE IV.
189 the beginners are tattlers, and those that are advanced are triflers.
Each brain is full of thought of grasping Thee; the brow of Plato even burned with the fever-heat of this hopeless thought.
How shall a thoughtless man like me succeed, when Thy jealousy strikes a dagger into the liver of saints ?
so that Thy grace would cleanse my brain; for if not, my restlessness will end in madness.
"To bow down the head upon the dust of Thy threshold and then to look up, is neither right in faith, nor permitted by truth.'
O man, thou coin bearing the double stamp of body and spirit, I do not know what thy nature is; for thou art higher than heaven and lower than earth.
Thy frame contains the image of the heavenly and the lower regions; be either heavenly or earthly, thou art at liberty to choose.
Do not act against thy reason, for it is a trustworthy counsellor; put not thy heart on illusions, for the heart is a lying fool.
"If thou wishest to understand the secret meaning of the words, “to prefer the welfare of others to thy own," treat thyself with poison, and others with sugar.
Accept misfortune with a joyful look, if thou art in the service of Him whom people serve.
Plunged into the wisdom of Greece, my mind rose again from the deep in the land of Ind; be thou as if
