You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Only when service for a common good is the primary purpose are you truly leading.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
You created the counterfeit and the genuine. You appraise all people. You appraise the true, and place them in Your treasury; You consign the false to wander in delusion.
