The Self

CHAPTER TWELVE.
The Self.

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157.
Hast thou regard for self? Then keep thyself well guarded.
Be wise and keep good watch for one of the three watches.[1]

158.
First ground thyself in fitness; next, another teach.
Thus shalt thou wisdom gain and suffer no reproach.

159.
First carry out thyself whate'er thou teachest others.
Self-tamed, thou'lt tame another; but self is hard to tame.

160.
Self is the lord of self; who else could be the lord?
By taming self one gains a lord most hard to gain.

161.
The evil done by self, self-born and self-begotten,
Crushes the senseless fool, as a bolt the jar of stone.[2]

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162.
He who is choked by sins, as a creeper chokes a tree,
Doth to himself what e'en his foes would have him do.

163.
Easy is ill to do and harmful to oneself;
But what is good and wholesome, that is hard to do.

164.
Whose rejects the words of noble righteous saints
On his own head brings ruin by his perversity,
As bamboo trees put forth their fruit and die away.

165.
By self is evil done; by self is one defiled;
Ill deeds not done by self to self bring purity;
Each for himself is pure; each for himself impure;
Thou can'st not cleanse another man's impurity.

166.
Mind thy affairs, not others', however great they be;[3]
Right knowledge of one's own brings more prosperity.