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Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
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Emperor Forget King Ocean Wealth
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a, man , is called a son self given.
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Abandoned Himself Lost Man Parents
I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
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Existence Identity Myself
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.
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Conquer Focus Mindset Realization Understand
Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.
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Architect Fake Karma Love
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
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Children Production Reason Visible
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
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Fly Intellectual Shallow Sweet
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
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Death Existence Home Peace Touch Yourself
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
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Attachment Emotional Illusion Pain
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.
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Ancestor Faith Heaven Performance Religious Service Wife
O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.
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Fountain God Heart Love Rain
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
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Beautiful Body Clothes Fake
He, who is appointed to, cohabit with the widow shall, approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, and beget one son, by no means a second.
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Herself Night Silence Son
The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.
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Body Bride Growth Ignorance Love Old Pain Suffering Widow
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
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Alone Bliss Meditation Soul Supreme
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
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Faith Knowledge Man Need

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