Soma and Rudra, may you maintain your divine dominion, and may the oblations reach you properly. Bringing the seven treasures to every house, be kind to our children and our cattle...
O True believers, perform your contracts. Ye are allowed to eat the brute cattle,[83] other than what ye are commanded to abstain from; except the game which ye are allowed at othe...
I pray with benedictions for a benefit, and for the good, even for the entire creation of the holy and the clean; I beseech for them the generation which is now alive, for that whi...
As the sea Vouru-kasha is the gathering place of the waters, rising up and going down, up the aerial way and down the earth, down the earth and up the aerial way: Thus rise up and...
"Come, come on, O clouds, from up above, down on the earth, by thousands of drops, by myriads of drops"--thus say, O holy Zarathustra! "to destroy sickness, to destroy death, to de...
"As the sea Vouru-kasha is the gathering place of the waters, rising up and going down, up the aerial way and down the earth, down the earth and up the aerial way: thus rise up and...
`I have conquered all, I know all, in all conditions of life I am free from taint; I have left all, and through the destruction of thirst I am free; having learnt myself, whom shal...
`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity
`All forms are unreal,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity
`All created things are grief and pain,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity
`Here I shall dwell in the rain, here in winter and summer,' thus the fool meditates, and does not think of his death
And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing the immortal place, a life of one day is better if a man sees the immortal place
And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing the highest law, a life of one day is better if a man sees the highest law Evil
And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing beginning and end, a life of one day is better if a man sees beginning and end
(Those who) possessed the highest (sense of) propriety were (always seeking) to show it, and when men did not respond to it, they bared the arm and marched up to them
"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease
A Bhikshu (mendicant) who delights in reflection, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness, cannot fall away (from his perfect state)--he is close upon Nirvana Thought
A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and mother, and two holy kings, and an eminent man besides
All men tremble at punishment, all men love life; remember that thou art like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows h...
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength
He who seeking his own happiness does not punish or kill beings who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death
Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has cut all fetters, who never trembles, is independent and unshackled
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Let us live happily then, free from greed among the greedy! among men who are greedy let us dwell free from greed!
Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise! When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth and decay