Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Atman


Hell has three doors: lust, rage and greed. These lead to man’s ruin. Therefore he must avoid them all.


Men whose temperament is dominated by sattva, worship God, in His various aspects. Men of rajas worship power and wealth. As for the rest -the men of tamas- they worship the spirits of the dead, and make gods of the ghosts of their ancestors.
The sages tell us that renunciation means the complete giving-up of all actions which are motivated by desire. And they say that non-attachment means abandonment of the fruits of action.

 

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