राम
Abhanga 328Worldly Life

The Impossibility of Escaping Our Past

English Translation · I.P. 328

IT is mind that puts the mind in motion; so too the intellect the intellect, from moment to moment. I have learned how to protect myself by the aid of the power that entrapped me; whatever notion springs up in it, by the aid of it I subdue. Thoughts arise in me, and pass away. Tuka says, I have witnessed both processes.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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