Quotes by Edwin Arnold

“Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind;Such is the likeness of the Yogi's mindShut from sense-storms and burning bright to Heaven.””

“Thou seest Me as Time who kills, Time who brings all to doom,The Slayer Time, Ancient of Days, come hither to consume;Excepting thee, of all these hosts of hostile chiefs arrayed,There shines not one shall leave alive the battlefield! DismayedNo longer be! Arise! obtain renown! destroy thy foes!Fight for the kingdom waiting thee when thou hast vanquished those.By Me they fall”

“Sir Edwin Chadwick, whose Sanitary Report proved to be a bestseller for the Stationery Office in 1842, confirmed that, every year, 20,000 adults and 30,000 youths and children were ‘imperfectly interred’ in less than 218 acres of burial ground, ‘closely surrounded by the abodes of the living’.2””

“Yet not by Vedas, nor from sacrifice, Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen! Only by fullest service, perfect faith, And uttermost surrender am I known And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince! Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me In all; adoreth always; loveth all Which I have made, and Me, for Love’s sole end That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.””

“Man hath no fate except past deeds,No Hell but what he makes, no Heaven too highFor those to reach whose passions sleep subdued.””

“Yet such abstraction, Chief!Is hard to win without much holiness.””

“When ye come where I have steppedYe will wonder why ye wept;””

“insight vast to spheres unnamed, System on system, countless worlds and suns Moving in splendid measures, band by band Linked in division, one yet separate, The silver islands of a sapphire sea With waves which roll in restless tides of change.””

“By wordless edict; having none to bid, None to forbid; for this is past all gods Immutable, unspeakable, supreme, A Power which builds, unbuilds and builds again,””

“If any teach NIRVÂNA is to cease,Say unto such they lie.If any teach NIRVÂNA is to live,Say unto such they err.””

“He goesUnto NIRVÂNA. He is one with Life,Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be.OM, MANI PADME, OM! the Dewprop slipsInto the shining sea!””

“The daylight lingered past its timeIn rose-leaf radiance on the watching peaks,So it seemed Night listened in the glensAnd Noon upon the mountains.””

“There hath been a slaughter for the sacrificeAnd slaying for the meat, but henceforth noneShall spill the blood of life, nor taste of flesh,Seeing that knowledge grows, and life is one,And mercy cometh to the merciful.””