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Mainyo-i-Khard 3

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The sage asked the spirit of wisdom

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thus: 'Is liberality good, or truth,

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or gratitude, or wisdom,

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or complete mindfulness, or contentment?'

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The spirit of wisdom answered

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thus: 'As to the soul it is liberality, as to all the world it is truth,

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unto the sacred beings it is gratitude, as to a man's self it is wisdom,

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as to all business it is complete mindfulness, and as to the comfort of the body and the vanquishing of Aharman and the demons contentment is good.'

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Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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