Virtue

Poem : 1

A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains;
The "Primal Deity" is first through all the world's domains.

Explanation :
As the letter A is the first of all letters, so the eternal God is first in the world.

Poem : 2

No fruit have men of all their studied lore,
Save they the 'Purely Wise One's' feet adore.

Explanation :
What Profit have those derived from learning, who worship not the good feet of Him who is possessed of pure knowledge ?

Poem : 3

His feet, 'Who o'er the full-blown flower hath past,' who gain
In bliss long time shall dwell above this earthly plain.

Explanation :
They who are united to the glorious feet of Him who passes swiftly over the flower ofthe mind, shall flourish long above all worlds.

Poem : 4

His foot, 'Whom want affects not, irks not grief,' who gain
Shall not, through every time, of any woes complain.

Explanation :
To those who meditate the feet of Him who is void of desire or aversion, evil shall never come.

Poem : 5

The men, who on the 'King's' true praised delight to dwell,
Affects not them the fruit of deeds done ill or well.

Explanation :
The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God.

Poem : 6

Long live they blest, who 've stood in path from falsehood freed;
His, 'Who quenched lusts that from the sense-gates five proceed'.

Explanation :
Those shall long proposer who abide in the faultless way of Him who has destroyed the five desires of the senses.

Poem : 7

Unless His foot, 'to Whom none can compare,' men gain,
'Tis hard for mind to find relief from anxious pain.

Explanation :
Anxiety of mind cannot be removed, except from those who are united to the feet of Him who is incomparable.

Poem : 8

Unless His feet 'the Sea of Good, the Fair and Bountiful,' men gain,
'Tis hard the further bank of being's changeful sea to attain.

Explanation :
None can swim the sea of vice, but those who are united to the feet of that gracious Being who is a sea of virtue.

Poem : 9

Before His foot, 'the Eight-fold Excellence,' with unbent head,
Who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead.

Explanation :
The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation.

Poem : 10

They swim the sea of births, the 'Monarch's ' foot who gain;
None others reach the shore of being's mighty main.

Explanation :
None can swim the great sea of births but those who are united to the feet of God.