राम
Abhanga 337Worldly Life

Nothing is Gained by Works of Law or Austerities

English Translation · I.P. 337

IT is a student’s duty to recite the Vedas; in the second stage a man must perform the six tasks. When he takes to the forest he seeks separation through union; a sanyasi must renounce his plans. If a man is initiate, know his open secret; he is beyond all caste, religion or family. He who preaches a rule and does not follow it, he is a sinner, as the Vedas say. Tuka says, Every state has its own rules; it is all empty toil that ends in pain. IU ; Our Taitft a Reward of merit

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

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