Self-Control 12

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Om Namah Sivaya

“The more is a man’s attachment to the world, the less is he likely to attain Knowledge (Jnana). The less his attachment to the world, the more is the probability of his gaining Knowledge.”

---Sri Ramakrishna

Tirumantiram by Rishi Tirumular :

Verse 2030 : Strength of Wisdom Leads to Higher Life

Of their Karma's strength is life here below,

Of their prayers' strength is life in heaven above,

Of their wisdom's strength is men's higher life;

Verily, of their strength of Grace

Is their way of life.

Bhagavad Gita:

 

>From Chapter VI: The Yoga of Meditation

4. When a man is not attached to the sense-objects or to actions, having renounced all thoughts, then he is said to have attained to Yoga.

5. Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone; let him not lower himself, for this self alone is the friend of oneself and this self alone is the enemy of oneself.

6. The self is the friend of the self for him who has conquered himself by the Self, but to the unconquered self, this self stands in the position of an enemy like the (external) foe.

7. The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful is balanced in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as also in honour and dishonour.

Tirukural:

(307) As a man trying to strike the ground with his hand can hardly fail, just as surely will one who treasures his temper be destroyed.

 

 

 

Sivaya Namah

 

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