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Abhanga 734The Moral Ideal

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English Translation · I.P. 734

SUCH as have stored up a heap of merit, such will importune God to save them; if a man is strong enough to send a weak man to Benares, when he has gone and come back, the merit will be shared between them. When worship or dinner is going on, a sleeping man should be sound; there is boundless pleasure in doing this. To perform a sacrifice a man must take a loan, and one who is prosperous ought to grant it him; if it is lost, neither of them will be grieved. Tuka says, With full knowledge of the purpose the loan should be asked and taken; there should be no false pretences.

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

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The Moral Ideal

Purity, sincerity, truthfulness, humility, peacefulness, and service.

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