राम
Abhanga 815Worldly Life

That We Should Make the Most of It

English Translation · I.P. 815

IF you do what is right for your class and station, you will reach the better world. Do you not know that you can become Brahma in the body itself ? If you are a learned man, you will show your learning in matters of speech; if a singer, you will sing according to the rules of art; if a Yogi, you will know all about the systems of worship, as they are laid down in the Sastras ; the effort by which meditation is accomplished, the motions of the eyes. Tuka says, You do not need all these things; the saints dwell in the body and yet are free from the body.

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

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