Muhammad

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But they live in wisdom who subdue them And keep their minds ever absorbed in me. When you keep thinking about sense objects, Attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire, The lust of possession which, when thwarted, Burns to anger. Anger clouds the judgment And robs you of the power to learn from Past mistakes. Lost is the discriminative Faculty, and your life is utter waste. But when you move amidst the world of sense From both attachment and aversion freed, There comes the peace in which all sorrows end, And you live in the wisdom of the Self. The disunited mind is far from wise; How can it ...more
God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose (Essential Easwaran Library Book 4)
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