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The Spirit of Guidance 
from the Petama Project website
 

We read in the Hindu Scriptures:

One attains peace, who, self controlled, approaches objects with the senses
devoid of love and hatred and brought under one's own control.

From: Bhagavad Gita, Discourse 2, Sankya Yoga

We read in the Buddhist Scriptures:

Not by silence alone does one who is dull and ignorant become a sage, but
that wise one who, as if holding a pair of scales, embraces the best and
shuns evil, is indeed a sage. For that reason one is a sage. One who
understands both worlds is a sage.

From:  Dhammapada, The Just or Righteous

We read in the Zoroastrian Scriptures:
 
Ahura Mazda rejoiced Zarathustra and said, "The three greatest concerns of
men are these: to make one who is an enemy a friend, to make righteous one
who is wicked, and to make the ignorant learned - to be grateful in the
world and to wish happiness for everyone - this is greater and happier than
every good work - and do not approve for another what you do not like yourself.

From: Zarathusthra, The Straight Path
 
We read in the Jewish Scriptures:

Indeed over all the glory shall hang a canopy which shall serve as a
pavilion for shade from heat by day and as a shelter for protection
against drenching rain.

From: Tanakh, Isaiah Ch 4, V 5-6

We read in the Christian Scriptures:

In a ll our prayers to God, the father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, we thank
him for you, because we have heard of the faith you hold in Jesus Christ
and the love you bear towards all God's people.

From: The New Testament, Letter of Paul to the Colossians

We read in the Scriptures of Islam:

But to God belongeth all things, In heaven and on earth:
And he it is that Encompasseth all things.

From: The Holy Qur'an, Sura IV, 126

We read from Gayan:

My thoughtful self! Reproach no one. Hold a grudge against no one.
Bear malice against no one. Be wise, tolerant, considerate, polite and kind to all.

From: Gayan, Vadan, Nirtan
 

From: The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan:

In spite of the justice and injustice we see on the surface of this world,
a keen insight into one's own life will teach that there is no comparison
between our faults and our good actions. The good actions in comparison to
our faults are so few that if we were judged we should not have one mark to
our credit. It does not mean that justice is absent there. It only means,
what is behind law? Love. And what is Love? God. And how do we see
God's love, in what form? In many forms; but the most beautiful form of
the love of God is Compassion. Divine Forgiveness. Considering these
things we realise we have a duty towards God.

Volume 1, p. 216, Dharma


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