Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. |
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth. |
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages. |
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants. |
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. |
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. |
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. |
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? |
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form. |
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. |
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. |
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. |
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. |
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. |
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. |
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause. |
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way. |
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. |
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form. |