Swords and Plowshares/The Self

​The Self

From the Sanscrit

THE Infinite is the Self—below, above. Behind, before, to left hand and to right.Who knows this truth and feels it needs must love And revel in the Self with calm delight.
And such an one rules with a perfect sway As lord and master of Eternity.The rest abide in worlds doomed to decay And bear the yoke of man's authority.
He who has seen the Self in everything And all things in the Self, alone is free.To him what sorrow can conditions bring? Self is the lord of self; who else should be?

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