- the wise person lets go all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone
- resolute understanding is single pointed. thoughts of the irresolute are many-branched and endless
- wisdom is obscured by desire
- if a person keeps dwelling on sense-objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment, desire flares up; from desire, anger is born; from anger, confusion follows; from confusion, weakness of memory; from weak memory, weak understanding; from weak understanding, ruin.
- the person who is self-controlled, who meets the objects of the sense with neither craving nor aversion, will attain serenity at last.
- abandoning all desires, acting without craving, free from all thoughts of “i” and “mine”, that person finds utter peace
- no one, not even for an instant, can exist without acting; all beings are compelled, however unwilling, by the three strands of nature called gunas
- the whole world becomes a slave to its own activity. if you want to be truly free, perform all actions as worship.
- whatever a great person does ordinary people will do. whatever standard that person sets everyone else will follow.
- the wise are free of attachments and act for the well-being of the whole world.
- it is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do another’s; you are safe from harm when you do what you should be doing…..
Oct 042011
