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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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