Eman asks:
How many of you know that you can not fight the battle for bread by eating? And, how many of you fighters know that this battle can not be fought by surrendering to the natural recoil of astonishment, grief, horror, dismay, dejection, bewilderment of mind and the war of reason against self, the collapse towards the principle of ignorance and inertia?
How many of you know that this battle will be fought against the righteous and the pious, generous men and the learned men, men who have interpreted the books and men who have followed the ideals from the four kingdoms of the four castles?
How many of you know that this battle can not be fought without grasping the higher law which grants the destroying of good to go beyond good and evil? For, have you not learned that when evil descends to lower depths, drags the good along with it.
The evil has fallen far below,
to enable you to save the good as it is.
Thus do I understand the middle path!
Thus do I not yield to the law of opposites!
And choose neither the good nor the evil of the day!
Do you know that in this battle men shall identify one another not by their faces, but by their allies, their vehicles; men riding tigers shall fight men riding tigers, men riding asses shall fight men riding asses!
How many of you know that this battle would have been fought in their land if you had been the traders and looted their wealth? I consider it my luck that this battle has become my lot! And my friends in the far away lands will suffer very long before they get a chance.
How many of you have learned of good and evil and the dualities from your teachers, your parents, your elders and teach your children that which you practice? And how many of you take a side in every fight that you witness? Thus I understand tradition, where men taught their children what they practiced and took a side in every fight in their midst , the chivalry which will not break the bruised reed, but helps and protects the weak and the oppressed, and the wounded and the fallen.
How many of you know that the time has come when everyone who is weak have to be weak, otherwise they will be hard and cruel ! For, everyone who succeeded to grow strong would have joined the side of the strong. Listen to the sages:
Know god, know thyself, help men protect the right, do without fear and faltering thy work of battle in this world.
Thou art the eternal and imperishable spirit, the soul is here in its upward path to immortality. Life and death are nothing, sorrow and wounds and suffering are nothing, for these things have to be conquered and overcome.
Look not at thy own pleasure, pain and profit, but above and around, above at the shining summits to which thou climbest, around at this world of battle and trial in which good and evil, progress and retrogress are locked in stern conflict.
Men call to you, their strong man, their hero, for help. Help them fight.
Destroy when by destruction the world must advance, but hate not that which you destroy, nor grieve for all the destruction caused.
Know everywhere the one self, know all to be immortal souls and body to be but dust. Do thy work with a calm, strong and equal spirit.
Fight and fall nobly or conquer mightily. For, this is the work that god and thy nature have given to thee to accomplish.
Eman can hear the chant of the drunken sun-burnt body : 'I want my children to escape my fate on this wheel'. Eman had to remind him every time : 'You have given up the fight old man; I was riding astride your neck and remember what you did not speak to me. Old man, let me tell you this: Breathe out your wisdom when you are strong, breathe in when you are weak and hold it when in doubt. Also know this: you do not cheat me of my battle, only the children who carry on the battles of childhood find the road to freedom. And there are no battles for the aged, except keeping alive. Freedom and immortality eludes them.' He picks up his drum:
Did you not find the law of learning to be same?
For the earliest ancestors,
And supermen of space odysseys?
Did you not find the quest to be same,
in the eyes of the child and the sage?
I see the joy of the three gunas in the same eyes!
I have witnessed ...
the Dawn of Fear in time !
And understood all morality from eternity !
How many of you know that you can not fight the battle for bread by eating? And, how many of you fighters know that this battle can not be fought by surrendering to the natural recoil of astonishment, grief, horror, dismay, dejection, bewilderment of mind and the war of reason against self, the collapse towards the principle of ignorance and inertia?
How many of you know that this battle will be fought against the righteous and the pious, generous men and the learned men, men who have interpreted the books and men who have followed the ideals from the four kingdoms of the four castles?
How many of you know that this battle can not be fought without grasping the higher law which grants the destroying of good to go beyond good and evil? For, have you not learned that when evil descends to lower depths, drags the good along with it.
The evil has fallen far below,
to enable you to save the good as it is.
Thus do I understand the middle path!
Thus do I not yield to the law of opposites!
And choose neither the good nor the evil of the day!
Do you know that in this battle men shall identify one another not by their faces, but by their allies, their vehicles; men riding tigers shall fight men riding tigers, men riding asses shall fight men riding asses!
How many of you know that this battle would have been fought in their land if you had been the traders and looted their wealth? I consider it my luck that this battle has become my lot! And my friends in the far away lands will suffer very long before they get a chance.
How many of you have learned of good and evil and the dualities from your teachers, your parents, your elders and teach your children that which you practice? And how many of you take a side in every fight that you witness? Thus I understand tradition, where men taught their children what they practiced and took a side in every fight in their midst , the chivalry which will not break the bruised reed, but helps and protects the weak and the oppressed, and the wounded and the fallen.
How many of you know that the time has come when everyone who is weak have to be weak, otherwise they will be hard and cruel ! For, everyone who succeeded to grow strong would have joined the side of the strong. Listen to the sages:
Know god, know thyself, help men protect the right, do without fear and faltering thy work of battle in this world.
Thou art the eternal and imperishable spirit, the soul is here in its upward path to immortality. Life and death are nothing, sorrow and wounds and suffering are nothing, for these things have to be conquered and overcome.
Look not at thy own pleasure, pain and profit, but above and around, above at the shining summits to which thou climbest, around at this world of battle and trial in which good and evil, progress and retrogress are locked in stern conflict.
Men call to you, their strong man, their hero, for help. Help them fight.
Destroy when by destruction the world must advance, but hate not that which you destroy, nor grieve for all the destruction caused.
Know everywhere the one self, know all to be immortal souls and body to be but dust. Do thy work with a calm, strong and equal spirit.
Fight and fall nobly or conquer mightily. For, this is the work that god and thy nature have given to thee to accomplish.
Eman can hear the chant of the drunken sun-burnt body : 'I want my children to escape my fate on this wheel'. Eman had to remind him every time : 'You have given up the fight old man; I was riding astride your neck and remember what you did not speak to me. Old man, let me tell you this: Breathe out your wisdom when you are strong, breathe in when you are weak and hold it when in doubt. Also know this: you do not cheat me of my battle, only the children who carry on the battles of childhood find the road to freedom. And there are no battles for the aged, except keeping alive. Freedom and immortality eludes them.' He picks up his drum:
Did you not find the law of learning to be same?
For the earliest ancestors,
And supermen of space odysseys?
Did you not find the quest to be same,
in the eyes of the child and the sage?
I see the joy of the three gunas in the same eyes!
I have witnessed ...
the Dawn of Fear in time !
And understood all morality from eternity !
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