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3. Greatness of Renunciates





  1. The Scriptures exalt above every other good
    the greatness of virtuous renunciates.

  2. Attempting to speak of the renunciate's magnitude is like
    numbering all the human multitudes who have ever died.

  3. Behold those who have weighed the dual nature of things and
    followed the renunciate's way. Their greatness illumines the world.

  4. He whose firm will, wisdom's goading hook, controls his five senses
    is a seed that will flourish in the fields of Heaven.

  5. Such is the power of those who subdue the five senses,
    that even Indra, sovereign of spacious Heaven's celestials, suffered their curse.

  6. The magnificent ones are they who can dispatch the most
    difficult tasks; the insignificant ones are they who cannot.

  7. Touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing are the senses
    he who controls these five magically controls the world.

  8. Their own secret sayings reveal to the world
    the greatness of men whose words prove prophetic.

  9. It is impossible to endure, even for a second, the wrath of those
    who have scaled and stand upon the mountain called virtue.

  10. Pious men are called the priestly ones,
    for they are clothed in robes of compassion for all life.

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