Scriptural
Reasoning
For The
Welt Ethos
The 4 components of the Welt Ethos
include: Ahimsa, Socioeconomic Balance,
Truthfulness, and Sexual Ethics. The
proceeding are Scriptural verses (respectively from Judaism, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam), organised by category, that support the
assertion of this Welt Ethos.
Ahimsa
Matthew 5:9
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called sons of God.”
Luke 22:47 – 51
“While he was still speaking, there
came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading
them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss
him; but Jesus said to him, ‘Judas,
would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?’
And when those who were about him saw what would follow, they said,
‘(Leader), shall we strike with the sword?’
And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his
right ear. But Jesus said, ‘No more of
this!’ And he touched his ear and healed
him.”
Dhammapada 1:1 – 6
“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil though as the
wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it.
“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that
never leaves.
“He was angry with me, he attacked me,
he defeated me, he robbed me”—those who dwell on such thoughts will never be
free from hatred.
“He was angry with me, he attacked me,
he defeated me, he robbed me”—those who do not dwell on such thoughts will
surely become free from hatred.
“For hatred can never put an end to
hatred; love alone can. This is an unalterable law.
“People forget that their lives will
end soon. For those who remember,
quarrels come to an end.”
Brahma Gala Sutta 1:8
“ ‘Putting away the killing of living
things, Gotama the recluse holds aloof from the destruction of life. He has laid the cudgel and the sword aside,
and ashamed of roughness, and full of mercy, he dwells compassionate and kind
to all creatures that have life.’ It is
thus that the unconverted man, when speaking in praise of the Tathâgata, might
speak.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:55
“They live in wisdom who see
themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and
sense craving tormenting the heart.”
Bhagavad Gita 5:7
“Those who follow the path of service,
who have completely purified themselves and conquered their senses and
self-will, see the Self in all creatures and are untouched by any action they
perform.”
Bhagavad Gita 3:42 – 43
“The senses are higher than the body,
the mind higher than the senses; above
the mind is the intellect, and above the intellect is the Atman.
“Thus, knowing that which is supreme,
let the Atman rule the ego. Use your
mighty arms to slay the fierce enemy that is selfish desire.”
Bhagavad Gita 6:7 – 9
“The supreme Reality stands revealed
in the consciousness of those who have conquered themselves. They live in peace, alike in cold and heat,
pleasure and pain, praise and blame.
“They are completely fulfilled by
spiritual wisdom and (Self-Realisation).
Having conquered their senses, they have climbed to the summit of human
consciousness. To such people a clod of
dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
“They are equally disposed to family,
enemies, and friends, to those who support them and those who are hostile, to
the (benevolent) and the evil alike.
Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.”
Sura 2:190
“And fight in the way of Allah against
those who fight against you but be not aggressive. Surely Allah loves not the aggressors.”
Sura 2:192 – 193
“But if they desist, then surely Allah
is Forgiving, Merciful.
“And fight them until there is no
persecution, and religion is only for Allah.
But if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the
oppressors.”
Sura 25:63
“And the servants of the Beneficent
are they who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them,
they say, ‘Peace.’”
Shmot 20:13
“You shall not murder."
Vayikra 19:33 – 34
“When a stranger resides with you in
your land, you shall not wrong him. The
stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were
strangers in the land of Egypt: I the
LORD am your God.”
Socioeconomic Balance
Bhagavad Gita 6:16 – 18
“Arjuna, those who eat too much or eat
too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in
meditation.
“But those who are temperate in eating
and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through
meditation.
“Through constant effort they learn to
withdraw the mind from selfish cravings and absorb it in the Self. Thus they attain the state of union.”
Bhagavad Gita 14:5 – 9
“It is the three gunas born of
prakriti—sattva, rajas, and tamas—that bind the immortal Self to the body.
“Sattva—pure, luminous, and free from
sorrow—binds us with attachment to happiness and wisdom.”
“Rajas is passion, arising from
selfish desire and attachment. These
bind the Self with compulsive action.
“Tamas, born of ignorance, deludes all
creatures through heedlessness, indolence, and sleep.”
Bhagavad Gita 14:12, 19
“When rajas predominates, a person
runs about pursuing selfish and greedy ends, driven by restlessness and desire.
“The wise see clearly that all action
is the work of the gunas. Knowing that
which is above the gunas, they enter into union with (Me).”
Bhagavad Gita 14:22 – 26
“They are unmoved by the harmony of
sattva, the activity of rajas, or the delusion of tamas. They feel no aversion when these forces are
active, nor do they crave for them when these forces subside.
“They remain impartial, undisturbed by
the actions of the gunas. Knowing that
it is the gunas which act, they abide within themselves and do not vacillate.
“Established within themselves, they
are equal in pleasure and pain, praise and blame, kindness and unkindness. Clay, a rock, and gold are the same to
them. Alike in honor and dishonour,
alike to friend and foe, they have given up every selfish pursuit. Such are those who have gone beyond the
gunas.
“By serving (Me) with steadfast love,
a man or woman goes beyond the gunas.
Such a one is fit for union with Brahman. For I am the support of Brahman, the eternal,
the unchanging, the deathless, the everlasting (Dharma), the source of all
joy.”
Shmot 20:13
“You shall not steal.”
Vayikra 19:9 – 10
“When you reap the harvest of your
land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the
gleanings of your harvest. You shall not
pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the
stranger: I the LORD am your God.”
Devarim 23:25 – 26
“When you enter another man’s
vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want, until you are fill, but you
must not put any in your vessel. When
you enter another man’s field of standing grain, you may pluck ears with your
hand; but you must not put a sickle to
your neighbour’s grain.”
Vayikra 19:11 – 18
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely
with one another. You shall not swear
falsely by My name, profaning the name of your God: I am the LORD.
“You shall not defraud your
fellow. You shall not commit
robbery. The wages of a labourer shall
not remain with you until morning.
“You shall not insult the deaf, or
place a stumbling block before the blind.
You shall fear your God: I am the
LORD.
“You shall not render an unfair
decision: do not favour the poor or show
deference to the rich; judge your
kinsman fairly. Do not deal basely with
your countrymen. Do not profit by the
blood of your fellow: I am the LORD.
“You shall not hate your kinsman in
your heart. Repove your kinsman but
incur no guilt because of him. You shall
not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your countrymen. Love your fellow as yourself: I am the LORD.”
Shmot 22:24 – 26
“If you lend money to My people, to
the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them. If you take your neighbor’s garment in
pledge, you must return it to him before the sun sets; it is his only clothing, the sole covering
for his skin. In what else shall he
sleep? Therefore, if he cries out to Me,
I will pay heed, for I am compassionate.”
Devarim 15:12 - 15
“If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is
sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall
set him free. When you set him free, do
not let him go empty-handed: Furnish him
out of the flock, threshing floor, and vat, with which the LORD your God has
blessed you. Bear in mind that you were
slaves in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you
today.”
Devarim 15:1 – 2
“Every seventh year you shall practice
remission of debts. This shall be the
nature of the remission: every creditor
shall remit the due that he claims from his fellow; he shall not dun his fellow or kinsman, for
the remission proclaimed is of the LORD.”
Vayikra 25:8 – 17
“You shall count off seven weeks of
years—seven times seven years—so that the period of seven weeks of years gives
you a total of forty-nine years. Then
you shall sound the horn loud; in the
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month—the Day of Atonement—you shall
have the horn sounded throughout your land and you shall hallow the fiftieth
year. You shall proclaim release
throughout the land for all its inhabitants.
It shall be a jubilee for you;
each of you shall return to his holding and each of you shall return to
his family. That fiftieth year shall be
a jubilee for you: you shall not sow,
neither shall you reap the aftergrowth or harvest the untrimmed vines, for it
is a jubilee. It hall be holy to
you: you may only eat the growth direct
from the field.
“In this year of jubilee, each of you
shall return to his holding. When you
sell property to your neighbour, or buy any from your neighbour, you shall not
wrong one another. In buying from your
neighbour, you shall deduct only for the number of years since the
jubilee; and in selling to you, he shall
charge you only for the remaining crop years:
the more such years, the higher the price you pay; the fewer such years, the lower the
price; for what he is selling you is a
number of harvests. Do not wrong one
another, but fear your God; for I the
LORD am your God.”
Brahma Gâla Sutta 9:8
“Or he might say: ‘Putting away the taking of what has not been
given, Gotama the recluse lived aloof from grasping what is not his own. He takes only what is given, and expecting
that gifts will come, he passes his life in honesty and purity of heart.”
Sâmañña Phala Sutta 35 – 36
“ ‘Now what do you think, O king. Suppose among the people of your household
there were a slave who does work for you, rises up in the morning before you do
and retires later to rest, who is keen to carry out your pleasure, anxious to
make himself agreeable in what he does and says, a man who watches your every
look. Suppose he should think, ‘Strange
is it and wonderful, this issue or meritorious deeds, this result of merit! Here is the king of Magadha, Agâtasattu, the
son of the Videha princess—he is a man, and so am I. But the king lives in the full enjoyment and
possession of the five pleasures of sense—a very (angel), methinks—and here am
I a slave, working for him, rising before him and retiring later to rest, keen
to carry out his pleasure, anxious to make myself agreeable in deed and word,
watching his very looks. Would that I
were like him, that I too might earn merit.
Why should not I have my hair and beard shaved off, and don the yellow
robes, and going forth from the household state, renounce the world?’ And suppose, after a time, he should do
so. And having been admitted into a
(Sangha), should dwell restrained in act and word and thought, content with
mere food and shelter, delighting in solitude.
And suppose your people should tell you of this, saying: ‘If it please your majesty, do you know that
such a one, formerly your slave, who worked for you, (and so on), has now
donned the yellow robes, and has been admitted into a (Sangha), and dwells
restrained, content with mere food and shelter, delighting in solitude?’ Would you then say: ‘Let the man come back; let him become a slave again, and work for
me’?’
“ ‘Nay, (Leader), rather should we
greet him with reverence, and rise up from our seat our of deference towards
him, and press him to be seated. And we
should have robes and a bowl, and a lodging place, and medicine for the
sick—all the requisites of a recluse—made ready, and beg him to accept of them. And we should order watch and ward and guard
to be kept for him according to the law.’
“ ‘But what do you think, O king. That being so, is there, or is there not,
some fruit, visible in this world, of the life of a recluse?’
“ ‘Certainly, (Leader), that is so.’
“ ‘This then, O king, is the first
kind of the fruit, visible in this world, which I maintained to arise from the
life of a recluse.’”
Matthew 10:5 – 11
“These twelve Jesus sent out, charging
them, ‘Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but
go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go, saying, ‘The
(Sovereignty) of heaven is at hand.’
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without
pay. Take no gold, nor silver, nor
copper in your belts, no bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor
a staff; for the labourer deserves his
food. And whatever town or village you
enter, find out who is worthy in it, and stay with him until you depart.”
Matthew 19:16 – 24
“And behold, one came up to him, saying,
‘Teacher, what (benevolent) deed must I do, to have eternal life?’ And he said to him, ‘Why do you ask me about
what is (benevolent)? One there is who
is (benevolent). If you would enter
life, keep the commandments.’ He said to
him, ‘Which?’ And Jesus said, ‘You shall
not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not
bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your
neighbour as yourself.’ The young man said
to him, ‘All these I have observed; what
do I still lack?’ Jesus said to him, ‘If
you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven; and come,
follow me.’ When the young man hear this
he went away sorrowful; for he had great
possessions.
“And Jesus said to his disciples,
‘Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the (Sovereignty)
of heaven. Again I tell you, it is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to
enter the (Sovereignty) of God.’”
Luke 21:1 – 4
“He looked up and saw the rich putting
their gifts into the treasury; and he
saw a poor widow put in tow copper coins.
And he said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all
of them; for they all contributed out of
their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she
had.’”
Matthew 25:34 – 40
“Then the King will say to those at
his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my (Creator), inherit the (Sovereignty)
prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me,
I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him,
‘(Leader), when did we see thee hungry and deed thee, or thirsty and give thee
drink? And when did we see thee a
stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee? And when did we see thee sick or in prison
and visit thee?’ And the King will
answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these
my brethren, you did it to me.’”
Matthew 20:25 – 28
“But Jesus called them to him and
said, ‘You know that the rulers of the Gentiles (lead) it over them, and their
great men exercise authority over them.
It shall not be so among you; but
whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be
first among you must be your slave; even
as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a
ransom for many.”
Luke 11:46
“And he said, ‘Woe to you lawyers
also! For you load men with burdens hard
to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.”
Sura 2:177
“It is not righteousness that you turn
your faces towards the East and the West, but righteous is the one who believes
in Allah, and the Last Day, and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and
gives away wealth out of love for (Allah) to the near of kin and the orphans
and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask and to set slaves free and
keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate;
and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the
patient in distress and affliction and in the time of conflict. There are they who are (Truthful); and these are they who keep their duty.”
Sura 4:36
“And serve Allah, and associate naught
with (Allah), and be (benevolent) to the parents and to the near of kin and the
orphans and the needy and the neighbour of your kin and the alien neighbour,
and the companion in a journey and the wayfarer and those whom your right hands
possess. Surely Allah loves not such as
are proud, boastful.”
Sura 2:280 – 281
“And if the debtor is in straitness,
let there be postponement till he is in ease.
And that you remit it as alms is better for you, if you only knew.
“And guard yourselves against a day in
which you will be returned to Allah.
Then every soul will be paid in full what it has earned, and they will
not be wronged.”
Sura 104:1 – 4
“Woe to every slanderer, defamer.
“Who amasses wealth and counts it—
“He thinks that his wealth will make
him abide.
“Nay, he will certainly be hurled into
crushing disaster;”
Sura 64:14 – 18
“O you who believe, surely of your
wives and your children there are enemies to you, so beware of them. And if you pardon and forbear and forgive,
surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
“Your wealth and your children are
only a trial, and Allah—with (Allah) is a great reward.
“So keep your duty to Allah as much as
you can, and hear and obey and spend; it
is better for your souls. And whoever is
saved from the greediness of his soul, these it is that are successful.
“If you set apart for Allah a
(benevolent) portion, (Allah) will double it for you and forgive you. And Allah is the Multiplier of rewards,
Forbearing,
“The Knower of the unseen and the
seen, the Mighty, the Wise.”
Truth
Shmot 20:13
“You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.”
Devarim 19:15 – 20
“A single witness may not validate
against a person any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of
two witnesses or more. If a man appears
against another to testify maliciously and gives false testimony against him,
the two parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests
or magistrates in authority at the time, and the magistrates shall make a
thorough investigation. If the man who
testified is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his fellow,
you shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your
midst; others will hear and be afraid,
and such evil things will not again be done in your midst.”
Vayikra 19:35
“You shall not falsify measures of
length, weight, or capacity. You shall
have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin.”
Sura 28:69
“And thy Lord know what their breasts
conceal and what they proclaim.”
Sura 4:135
“O you who believe, be maintainers of
justice, bearers of witness for Allah, even though it be against your own
selves, or your parents or near relatives—whether he be rich or poor, Allah has
a better right over them both. So follow
not your low desires, lest you deviate.
And if you distort or turn away from (Truth), surely Allah is ever Aware
of what you do.”
Sura 17:35
“And give full measure when you
measure out, and weigh with a true balance.
This is fair and better in the end.”
Brahma Gala Sutta 1:9
“Or he might say: ‘Putting away lying words, Gotama the recluse
holds himself aloof from falsehood. He
speaks (Truth), from the (Truth) he never swerves; faithful and trustworthy, he breaks not his
word to the world.’
“Or he might say: ‘Putting away slander, Gotama the recluse
holds himself aloof from calumny. What
he hears here he repeats not elsewhere to raise a quarrel against the people
here; what he hears elsewhere he repeats
not here to raise a quarrel against the people there. Thus does he live as a binder together of
those who are divided, and encourager of those who are friends, a peacemaker, a
lover of peace, impassioned for peace, a speaker of words that make for peace.’
“Or he might say: ‘Putting away rudeness of speech, Gotama the
recluse holds himself aloof from harsh language. Whatsoever word is blameless, pleasant to the
ear, lovely, reaching to the hear, urbane, pleasing to the people, beloved of
the people—such are words he speaks.’
“Or he might say: ‘Putting away frivolous talk, Gotama the
recluse holds himself aloof from vain conversation. In season he speaks, in accordance with the
facts, words full of meaning, on religion, on the discipline of the
(Sangha). He speaks, and at the right
time, words worthy to be laid up in one’s heart, fitly illustrated, clearly
divided, to the point.’”
Sâmañña Phala Sutta 91 – 92
“With his heart serene, made pure,
translucent, cultured, devoid of evil, supple, ready to act, firm and
imperturbable, he directs and bends down his mind to the knowledge which
penetrates the heart. Penetrating with
his own hear the hearts of other beings, of other men, he knows them. He discerns—
“The passionate mind to be passionate,
and the calm mind calm;
“The angry mind to be angry, and the
peaceful mind peaceful;
“The dull mind to be dull, and the
alert mind alert;
“The attentive mind to be attentive,
and the wandering mind wandering;
“The broad mind to be broad, and the
narrow mind narrow;
“The mean mind to be mean, and the
lofty mind lofty;
“The stedfast mind to eb stedfast, and
the wavering mind to be wavering;
“The free mind to be free, and the
enslaved mind enslaved.
“Just, O king, as a woman or a man or
a lad, young and smart, on considering attentively the image of his own face in
a bright and brilliant mirror or in a vessel of clear water would, if it had a
mole on it, know that it had, and if not, would know it had not.
“This, O king, is an immediate fruit
of the life of a recluse, visible in this world, and higher and sweeter than
the last.”
Mark 13:11
“And when they bring you to trial and
deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in that hour,
for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.”
John 18:33 – 38
“Pilate entered the praetorium again
and called Jesus, and said to him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ Jesus answered, ‘Do you say this of your own
accord, or did others say it to you about me?’
Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew?’
Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me; what have you done?’ Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this
world; if my kingship were of this
world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the
Jews; but my kingship is not from the
world.’ Pilate said to him, ‘So you are
a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I
am a king. For this I was born, and for
this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the (Truth). Every one who is of the (Truth) hears my
voice.’ Pilate said to him, ‘What is
(Truth)?’”
Matthew 5:20
“For I tell you, unless your
righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter
the (Sovereignty) of heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:52
“When your mind has overcome the
confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things
you hear and things you have heard.”
Bhagavad Gita 5:18
“Those who possess this wisdom have
equal regard for all. They see the same
Self in a spiritual aspirant and an outcaste, in an elephant, a cow, and a
dog.”
Sexual Ethics
Sura 4:1, 3 – 4
“O people, keep your duty to your
Lord, Who created you from a single being and creasted its mate of the same
kind, and spread from these two many men and women. And keep your duty to Allah, by Whom you
demand one of another your rights, and to the ties of relationship. Surely Allah is ever a Watcher over you.
“And if you fear that you cannot do
justice to orphans, marry such women as seem (benevolent) to you, two, or
three, or four; but if you fear that you
will not do justice, then marry only one or that which your right hands
possess. This is more proper that you
may not do injustice.
“And give women their dowries as a
free gift. But if they of themselves be
pleased to give you a portion thereof, consume it with enjoyment and pleasure.”
Sura 17:32
“And go not nigh to fornication: surely it is an obscenity. And evil is the way.”
Sura 24:30 – 31
“Say to the believing men that they
lower their gaze and restrain their sexual passions. That is purer for them. Surely Allah is Aware of what they do.
“And say to the believing women that
they lower their gaze and restrain their sexual passions and do not display
their adornment except what appears therof.
And let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms. And they should not display their adornment
except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or
their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their
brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those whom their
right hands possess, or guileless male servants, or the children who know not
women’s nakedness. And let them not
strike their feet so that the adornment that they hide may be known. And turn to Allah all, O believers, so that
you may be successful.”
Brahma Gala Sutta 1:8
“Or he might say: ‘Putting away unchastity, Gotama the recluse
is chaste. He holds himself aloof, far
off, from the vulgar practice, from the sexual act.”
Ambattha Sutta 2:1
“In the supreme perfection in wisdom
and righteousness, Ambattha, there is no reference to the question either of
birth, or of lineage, or of the pride which says: ‘You are held as worthy as I,’ or ‘You are
not held as worthy as I.’ It is where
the talk is of marrying, or of giving in marriage, that reference is made to
such things as that. For whosoever,
Ambattha, are in bondage to the notions of birth or of lineage, or to the pride
of social position, or of connection by marriage, they are far from the best
wisdom and righteousness. It is only by
having got rid of all such bondage that one can (Realise) for himself that
supreme perfection in wisdom and in conduct.”
Samanna Phala Sutta 97
“With his heart thus serene, made
pure, translucent, cultured, devoid of evil, supple, ready to act, firm and
imperturbable, he directs and bends down his mind to the knowledge of the
destruction of the Deadly Floods. He
knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is pain.’ He knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is the origin of pain.’ He knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is the cessation of pain.’ He knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is the Path that leads to the cessation
of pain.’ He knows as they (Truly) are: ‘These are the Deadly Floods.’ He knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is the origin of the Deadly
Floods.’ He knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is the cessation of the Deadly
Floods.’ He knows as it (Truly) is: ‘This is the Path that leads to the cessation
of the Deadly Floods.’ To him, thus
knowing, thus seeing, the heart is set free from the Deadly Tain of Lusts, is
set free from the Deadly Taint of Becomings, is set free from the Deadly Taint
of Ignorace. In him, thus set free,
there arises the knowledge of his emancipation, and he knows: ‘Rebirth has been destroyed. The higher life has been fulfilled. What had to be done has been accomplished. After this present life there will be no
beyond.’”
Shmot 20:13
“You shall not commit adultery.”
Devarim 22:5
“A woman must not put on man’s
apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing;
for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD your God.”
Beresheit 2:18 – 25
“The LORD God said, ‘It is not (well)
for man to be alone; I will make a
fitting helper for him.’ And the LORD
God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living
creature, that would be its name. And
the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to all the
wild beasts; but for Adam no fitting
helper was found. So the LORD God cast a
deep sleep upon the man; and, while he
slept, (Adonai) took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that spot. And the LORD God fashioned the rib that
(Adonai) had taken from the man into a woman;
and (Adonai) brought her to the man.
Then the man said,
“ ‘This one at last
“
‘Is bone of my bones
“ ‘And flesh of my flesh.
“ ‘This one shall be called Woman,
“ ‘For from man was she taken.’
“Hence a man leaves his father and
mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.
“The two of them were naked, the man
and his wife, yet they felt no shame.”
Mark 12:24 – 25
“Jesus said to them, ‘Is not this why
you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they
neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.’”
Matthew 19:3 – 12
“And Pharisees came up to him and
tested him by asking, ‘Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?’ He answered, ‘Have you not read that (God)
(Who) made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For
this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh’? So
they are no longer two but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.’ They said to him, ‘Why then did (Moshe)
command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?’ He said to them, ‘For you hardness of heart
(Moshe) allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not
so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for
unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.’
“The disciples said to him, ‘If such
is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.’ But he said to them, ‘Not all men can receive
this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from
birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are
eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the (Sovereignty) of
heaven. Hw who is able to receive this,
let him receive it.’”
Bhagavad Gita 1:40 – 43
“When a family declines, ancient
traditions are destroyed. With them are
lost the spiritual foundations for life, and the family loses its sense of
unity.
“Where there is no sense of unity, the
women of the family become corrupt; and
with the corruption of its women, society is plunged into chaos.
“Social chaos is hell for the family
and for those who have destroyed the family as well. It disrupts the process of spiritual
evolution begun by our ancestors.
“The timeless spiritual foundations of
family and society would be destroyed by these terrible deeds, which violate
the unity of life.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:56 – 61
“Neither agitated by grief nor
hankering after pleasure, they live free from lust and fear and anger. Established in meditation, they are (Truly)
wise.
“Fettered no more by selfish attachments,
they are neither elated by (benevolent) fortune nor depressed by bad. Such are the seers.
“Even as a tortoise draws in its
limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
“Aspirants abstain from sense
pleasures, but they still crave for them.
These cravings all disappear when they see the highest goal.
“Even of those who tread the path, the
stormy senses can sweep off the mind.
“They live in wisdom who subdue their
senses and keep their minds ever absorbed in (Me).”
