The Soul of the Indian · 9 of 29
Chapter II-e
Each is vowed to die for the other, if need be, and nothing is denied the brother-friend, but neither is anything required that is not in accord with the highest conceptions of the Indian mind.
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Love Of Neighbourethics
Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love.
The passage centrally describes a bond of self-sacrificial devotion ('vowed to die for the other') and total openness ('nothing is denied') between individuals. [quarantine-w3: love_of_neighbour x native_american — see rellm data/quarantine/dossiers.jsonl]
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hinduism|Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book I|Sutra 39
“Or meditative brooding on what is dearest to the heart. Here is a thought which our own day is beginning to grasp: that love is a form of knowledge; that we truly know any thing or any person, by becoming one therewith, in love. Thus love h…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
hinduism|Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book I|Sutra 33
“By sympathy with the happy, compassion for the sorrowful, delight in the holy, disregard of the unholy, the psychic nature moves to gracious peace. When we are wrapped up in ourselves, shrouded with the cloak of our egotism, absorbed in our…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
christian_mysticism|The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme|Chapter 11 (part 1)
“p.
224 CHAPTER XI.
INCARNATION—THE CELESTIAL VIRGIN.
The doctrine of the incarnation of Christ, or, to express it in other words, of the awakening of the germ of divine self-knowledge in man, is so grand, that it is impossible to form a…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
hinduism|Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book III|Sutra 23
“By perfectly concentrated Meditation on sympathy, compassion and kindness, is gained the power of interior union with others. Unity is the reality; separateness the illusion. The nearer we come to reality, the nearer we come to unity of hea…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
hinduism|The Bhagavad Gita|Chapter XII, Section 1
“CHAPTER XII. Ar g una said: Of the worshippers, who thus, constantly devoted, meditate on you, and those who (meditate) on the unperceived and indestructible, which best know devotion? The Deity said: Those who being constantly devoted, and…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
platonism|Plato: Republic|Section 1i
“No, my friend, and they have seldom, if ever, heard free and noble sentiments; such as men utter when they are earnestly and by every means in their power seeking after truth for the sake of knowledge, while they look coldly on the subtleti…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
hinduism|The Bhagavad Gita|Chapter XVI, Section 1a
“CHAPTER XVI.
Freedom from fear, purity of heart, perseverance in (pursuit of) knowledge and abstraction of mind, gifts , self-restraint , and sacrifice, study of the Vedas, penance, straightforwardness, harmlessness, truth , freedom from a…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
egyptian|The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani)|Chapter 43 (part 65)
“In the Journal de Paris , 15 Mars, 1871; and in the Academy , Aug.
1, No.
29, p.
386, 1871.
7.
L'Égyptologie , Série I., tt.
i., ii., Chalons-sur-Saône and Paris, 40., 1876-78.
This work contains the hieratic text divided into sectio…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)
hinduism|Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II|Sutra 35
“Where non-injury is perfected, all enmity ceases in the presence of him who possesses it. We come now to the spiritual powers which result from keeping the Commandments; from the obedience to spiritual law which is the keeping of the Comman…”
Shared concept: Love Of Neighbour — Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love. (derived)