(Ibid.)

"If thou art wise seek ease and happiness
In deeds of virtue and of usefulness;
And ever act in such a way by day
That in the night thy sleep may tranquil be;
And so comport thyself when thou art young
That when thou art grown old, thy age may pass
In calm serenity. So ply thy talk
Through thy life, that when thy days are ended,
Thou may'st enjoy eternal bliss hereafter."

(Ibid.)

"Do naught to others which if done to thee
Would cause thee pain; this is the sum of duty."

(Ibid.)

"No sacred lore can save the hypocrite,--
Though he employ it craftily,--from hell;
When his end comes, his pious texts take wings,
Like fledglings eager to forsake their nest."

(Ibid.)

"Iniquity once practiced, like a seed,
Fails not to yield its fruit to him who wrought it,
If not to him, yet to his sons and grandsons."

(Manu.)

"Single is every living creature born,
Single he passes to another world.
Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds,
Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves
His body like a log or heap of clay
Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away;
Virtue alone stands by him at the tomb,
And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom."

(Ibid.)

"Thou canst not gather what thou dost not sow;
As thou dost plant the tree so will it grow."

(Ibid.)

"He who pretends to be what he is not,
Acts a part, commits the worst of crimes,
For, thief-like, he abstracts a good man's heart."

(Ibid.)

FOOTNOTES:

[384:1] "Before the separation of the Aryan race, before the existence
of Sanscrit, Greek, or Latin, before the gods of the Veda had been
worshiped, ONE SUPREME DEITY had been found, had been named, and had
been invoked by the ancestors of our race." (Prof. Max Mueller: The
Science of Religion, p. 67.)

[384:2] See Chap. XII. and Chap. XX., for Only-begotten Sons.

[384:3] See Chap. XII. and Chap. XXXII., where we have shown that many