From affection comes grief, from affection comes fear; he who is free
from affection knows neither grief nor fear.
From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he who is free from lust
knows neither grief nor fear.
From love comes grief, from love comes fear; he who is free from love
knows neither grief nor fear.
From greed comes grief, from greed comes fear; he who is free from greed
knows neither grief nor fear.
He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth,
and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
He in whom a desire for the Ineffable (Nirvana) has sprung up, who in
his mind is satisfied, and whose thoughts are not bewildered by love, he
is called urdhvamsrotas (carried upwards by the stream).
Kinsmen, friends, and lovers salute a man who has been long away, and
returns safe from afar.
In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has
gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on his
return.
CHAPTER XVII
ANGER
Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all
bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and
form, and who calls nothing his own.
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real
driver; other people are but holding the reins.
Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him
overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for
little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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