yet art awake thou art capable of enjoying sounds and other objects of sense of severe of protecting thy creatures and of living in indifference to all external things the roads leading to perfection which vary according to the different revealed systems all end in thee as the waves of the flow to the ocean for those men whose hearts are fixed on thee who have committed to thee their works thou art a refuge so that they escape further thy glory as manifested to the senses in the earth and other objects is yet this i presume to the stories of sleeping on the ocean in the intervals between the dissolution of one world and the creation of the next incomprehensible what shall be said who be proved only by the authority of scripture and by seeing that the remembrance of thee alone a man � the rewards of other mental when directed towards thee are thereby indicated as the w ers exceed the ocean and as the beams of light exceed the sun so thy acts our praises there is nothing for thee to attain which thou hast not already attained kindness to the world is the only motive for thy birth and for thy actions if this our hymn now comes to a close after thy greatness the reason of this is our exhaustion or our inability to say more not that there is any limit so the dutch to thy attributes these verses have not all been rendered v af iii fi in this passage the greater part of which has been translated by mo in the indian for june of the hard lot of her righteous husband and charges the deity with injustice but is answered by i give here the verses which i have attempted to render as well as some others g od i na the to creatures everything � happiness and suffering the agreeable and the disagreeable darting radiance before him just as the wooden figure of a woman moves its several limbs according as it is adjusted so too do these creatures as a bird bound and confined by a string is not its own master so a man must remain under the control of god he is neither the lord of others nor of himself like a strung upon a thread or a bull tied by a nose rope a man follows the command of the to whom he belongs and on whom he depends not self directing a man to some of time like a tree which has fallen from a river bank and has reached the middle of the current ignorant and powerless � compare the ill there i nothing which i am bound to nor which i h ve yet to obtain and yet i to act as the ignorant who are devoted to action do ao let the man do to promote the of the world to command his own pleasures and sufferings he must go to heaven or hell according as he is impelled by god as the tips of grass are swayed by the of a strong wind so too all beings are subject to the to noble action and again to sinful deeds god all creatures and it is not perceived that he is there acting according to his pleasure this lord them or them plays with living creatures as with a child s toys the does not treat his creatures like a father or a mother but acts angrily as any other being like ourselves seeing noble virtuous and modest men in want and men happy i am as it were agitated with perplexity and perceiving this of thine and the prosperity of i blame the who regards you with an unequal eye good fortune on him who the rules of conduct observed by noble men who is cruel greedy and a of justice what good end does the gain the same sentiments are expressed in the following fragment of no in the edition of iv ed h ex rt d a tt ov x i y tt t to d r v d i jl � t tt it is strange that those who are and descendants of wicked men should fare while those who are good and sprung from noble men should be unfortunate it was not meet that the gods should deal thus with mortals i am indebted to professor for suggesting the reading which gives this sense for which the text of the m has men ought to obtained from the gods some manifest advantage while the unjust should on the contrary have some evident penalty for their evil deeds and thus no one who was wicked would have been prosperous with verses s compare also verses ff � ri n ai why do they say that wretched mortals are wise for we are dependent upon thee and do whatever thou to will � i have heard y the charming and amiable discourse full of sparkling phrases which thou hast spoken but thou sentiments n i do not act from a desire to gain the of my works i give what i ought to give and the rites which i am bound to whether reward to me or not i do to the best of my power what a man should do as if he were living at home the speaker is represented as being at the time in the forests it is on duty alone that my thoughts are fixed and this too naturally the man who seeks to make of a is low and the meanest of those who about the man who seeks to milk i e to extract from it all the advantage that he can does not obtain its reward i say it do not doubt about he who does so is on the way to he bom as a brute n and other are all wise through for thou plainly these saints 