Chapter 36: Knowledge of Truth

Verse 359
Clinging to the divine feet of the Lord, a devotee’s hands are upheld in ecstasy. Below him we see birth, death, disease, hunger and other forms of suffering which come from attachment to lesser things.

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Weaver’s Wisdom

Verse 351

The muddled mentality that mistakes the unreal for the Real
is the genesis of woeful births.

Verse 352

For those of undimmed perception, free from delusion,
darkness departs and rapture rushes in.

Verse 353

Heaven is nearer than Earth for those who
dispel all doubt and know the Truth.

Verse 354

All knowledge acquired through the five senses is worthless
to those without knowledge of Truth.

Verse 355

In everything of every kind whatsoever,
wisdom perceives Truth in that thing.

Verse 356

Those who find the highest Reality here and now
follow a path which never comes back to this world.

Verse 357

Having thought profoundly and realized fully That which is,
one need never think of being born again.

Verse 358

Wisdom is that rare realization of Perfection’s True Being,
which banishes forever the folly of rebirth.

Verse 359

He who clings to life’s true support clings not to lesser things.
Sorrows, which destroy by clinging, no longer cling to him.

Verse 360

Desire, delusion and indignation–annihilation of these
three terms is the termination of torment.