Existential Atlas

Vol. I — Dhanasari Ashtapadi

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God is pleased with love and service, not with idolatry or pilgrimages :—

God maketh Himself manifest and beholdeth men.

He is not pleased by obstinate penance nor by many religious garbs.

He who fashioned the vessel of the body and poured into it His ambrosial gifts,

Will only be satisfied with man's love and service.

They who, though ever reading, forget God's name shall suffer punishment,

And notwithstanding their great cleverness undergo trans migration.

He who repeateth the Name and thus eateth the food of fear,

Shall become a pious worshipper and be absorbed in God.

He who worshippeth stones, visiteth places of pilgrimage, dwelleth in forests,

And renounceth the world, wandereth and wavereth.

How can his filthy mind become pure ?

He who meeteth the True One shall obtain honour.

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