God Loves All Beings

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T he Lord is my light and my salvation . . .


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K eep ye My statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you.


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I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. . . . Who hath announced this from ancient time, And declared it of old? Have not I the Lord?


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W hen thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go back to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow . . . When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee ; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. . . .


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W ash you, make you clean, . . . Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.† Isaiah 1:16-20 ( JPS Tanakh (1917) ) ‘And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise — for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry . . . ’


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T hou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart . . . Thou shalt not take vengeance . . . I am the Lord.


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T hou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.


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I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. . . . Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.


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A nd we cried unto the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression. And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders. And He hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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T he Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice; And He saw that there was no man, And was astonished that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation unto Him; And His righteousness, it sustained Him; And He put on righteousness as a coat of mail, And a helmet of salvation upon His head, . . .


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T hus saith the Lord: The heaven is My throne, And the earth is My footstool; Where is the house that ye may build unto Me? And where is the place that may be My resting-place?


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K nowing pain and pleasure in all their variety ( patteyam ), and seeing his life not yet decline, a wise man should know that to be the proper moment (for entering a religious life); while the perceptions of his ear, eye, organs of smell, tasting, touching are not yet deteriorated, while all these perceptions are not yet deteriorated, man should prosecute the real end of his soul. Thus I say.


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R ight belief depends on the acquaintance with truth, on the devotion to those who know the truth . . . there is no (right) conduct without right belief, and it must cultivated (for obtaining) right faith . . . Without (right) faith there is no (right) knowledge, without (right) knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.


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L ook at the exterior (world from analogy with thy own) self; [then]thou wilt neither kill nor destroy (living beings);’ viz. out of reciprocal regard [well examining] he does no sinful act. What is the characteristic of a sage? ‘Recognising the equality (of all living beings), he appease himself.’


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H e who knows the internal, knows the external and he who knows the external, knows the internal.


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O ne who knows soul as pure oneself attains a pure self. But who contemplates the soul as having impure nature becomes himself impure.


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T o kill any living being amounts to killing oneself. Compassion to others is compassion to one’s own self.


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J ust as you do not like misery, in the same way others also do not like it. Knowing this, you should do unto them what you want them to do unto you.


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( One should reflect thus:) Let me treat all living beings with eqanimity and none with enmity.


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T he Arhats and Bhagavats of the past, present, and future, all say thus, speak thus, declare thus, explain thus: all breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.


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I forgive all living beings,
May all living beings forgive me.
My friendship is with all living beings,
My enmity is nonexistent.


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M ay the whole universe be blessed,
May all beings engage in each other’s well-being,
May all weakness, sickness and faults diminish and vanish,
May everyone be healthy, prosperous, blissful, and peaceful.


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I bow to the enlightened beings.
I bow to the liberated souls.
I bow to religious leaders.
I bow to religious teachers.
I bow to all ascetics of the world. . . .


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T hese are revelations of Allah. We recite them unto thee in truth. Allah willeth no injustice to (His) creatures. Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and unto Allah all things are returned.


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