Guide your child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
