- Those fools head for disaster who in their ignorance attribute to God the six evils (lust, anger, greed, delusion, conceit and jealousy) ,7! which are of their own making, but the wise will gain untainted deliverance who recognize the
same evils to be of their own making and not God’s.
- Disciple: How is it that God who is impartial,
advances a few and degrades others?
Master: He is like the father who encourages his sons who are in the right way, and frowns on the other sons who are in the wrong way. Know it to be mercy to punish the erring and direct them to be righteous.
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The celestial tree,22 fire and water, protect those who seek them, by fulfilling their desires, keeping them warm and quenching their thirst. So also Jshvara is kind to His devotees and not so to others. Now think well and judge whose fault it is.
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Now here is the vital point: Rebirths will be at an end for him who adopts with perseverance the way to Deliverance shown by God in the scriptures, follows the Sages, gives up his evil propensities, discriminates the Real from the unreal, rejects the illusion born of ignorance and
gains Wisdom (by realizing the Self). Then and then only, will rebirths be at an end for him. This is the Truth.
- This Wisdom can be gained by a long course of
practice of unceasing enquiry into the Self.
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