Verses 1080–1089

1080. To what end is all this reading, to what end are all these disputations? If thou wouldest remain of one mind, thou shouldest become an accomplished sage and attaining absorptions become thyself, the Universe.

1081. Surely these vile tenets (Veda) are mere contention. The words of Vemana are knowledge (Veda). Verify none can show you any good. Though good were taught, you would not do it. If a man did well this would be the perfect man. ([Telugu] is a vocative plural of which [Telugu] is the singular. )

1082. Like as camphor, burnt in fire loses its fine smelt. Thus the fragrance of wisdom in the debased can attain no nobility.

1083. He who knows the truth knows the Divinity and this will enable him to slay all his lust (literally vigours). Will he who has swallowed a delicious plantain swallow venom?

1084. Wonderful is it that the millions of animated beings should behold the great spirit, if thou consider in thy heart.

1085. Sorrow originates in impurity of heart. Like as the sun shines on all nature, pure water is in the sanctified body.

1086. Ye who first drove away all your original Gods, ye who drove away the succeeding deities, smite with the slipper your present paltry divinities.

1087. He who has beheld all the glory that is concealed within the veil, and has also fixed his mind on the divinity, that mighty saint who existeth in exalted holiness, at where shall we seek him?

1088. To know myself is to know thee How should he who knoweth not himself know thee. Let us learn from Boya Caannappa the prayer that teaches a knowledge of ourselves and thee (easy and useful in grammatical construction).

1089. That deity that alone comprehendeth the scriptures is found by constant seeking The Lord seeketh the man that seeketh him. Are there any who are wise and have learnt to seek him?