SPIRITUAL LIBRARY

SPIRITUAL LIBRARY

"BE OPEN TO ALL TEACHERS
AND ALL TEACHINGS

AND LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART"

BAHA'I "Blessed are those who prefer others before themselves." -- Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, 71	BUDDHISM "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful." -- Udana-Varga, 5:18
CHRISTIANITY "Always treat others as you would like them to treat you." -- Jesus, Matthew 7:12	CONFUCIANISM "Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you." -- Analects 15:23
HINDUISM "This is the sum of all duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you." -- Mahabharata 5:1517	ISLAM "No one of you is a believer until you desire for another that which you desire for yourself" -- Sunnah
JAINISM "In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, regard all creatures as you would regard your own self." -- Lord Mahavir 24th Tirthankara	JUDAISM "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor, That is the entire Torah; all the rest is commentary." -- Talmud, Shabbat 31a
NATIVE AMERICAN "Respect for all life is the foundation" -- The Great Law of Peace	SIKHISM "Be not estranged from another for God dwells in every heart." -- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
WICCAN "Everything you do, whether positive or negative, is returned to you threefold." -- The Threefold Law	ZOROASTRIANISM "Human nature is good only when it does not do unto another whatever is no good for its own self." -- Dadistan-i-Dinik, 94:5

Ashtakam

Bhagawad Gita

The attributeless one without a second Brahman desired to be many and it created Maya (illusion). The Maya then created the triad of Gods Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh who were personifications of three Gunas [qualities of nature] - Satva (stands for qualities like goodness, purity, and excellence), Rajas (stands for passion, attatchment and fickleness), Tamas (stands for darkness whence proceed folly, ignorance, worldly dillusion, blindness of lust,pride).