Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01

SR No.: 007688
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1861
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 28 MB

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to their mouths milk, whilst yet in the stomach. They are placed amidst the fires of the belly: nevertheless they remain unscorched.
15. Oh, forget not, my brother, that God's power is always with you. There is a formidable pass within you, and crowds of evil passions flock to it: therefore comprehend God.
16. Commend the qualities which God possesseth. He gave you eyes, speech, head, feet, mouth, ears, and hands. He is the lord of life and of the world.
17. Ye forget God, who was indefatigable in forming every thing, and who keepeth every thing in order; ye destroy luis doctrines. Remember God, for he endued your body with life: remember that beloved one, who placed you in the womb, reared and nourished you.
18. Preserve God in your hearts, and put faith into your minds, so that by God's power your expectations may be realized.
19. He taketh food and enployment, and distributeth them. God is near; he is always with me.
20. In order that he may diffuse happiness, God becometh subservient to all; and although the knowledge of this is in the hearts of the foolish, yet will they not praise his name.
21. Although the people every where stretch out their hands to God; although his power is so extensive, yet is hie sometimes subservient to all.
22. Oh God, thou art as it were exceeding riches; thy regulations are without compare, thou art the chief of every world, yet remainest invisible.
23. Dádů sayeth, I will become the sacrifice of the Godhead; of him who supporteth every thing; of him who is able, in one moment, to rear every description of animal, from a worm even to an elephant.
24. Take such food and raiment as it may please God to provide you with. You require naught besides.
25. Those men who are contented, eat of the morsel which is from God. Oh disciple! why do you wish for other food, which resembles carrion ?
26. He that partaketh of but one grain of the love of God, shall be released from the sinfulness of all his doubts and actions.