{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/egt/egt66.htm","path":"isl/egt/egt66.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/egt/egt66.htm","text":"There was an old ascetic in Basr\u00e2, none in that age so devout as he. He said, I rise every morning determined to fly from this vile\nSelf. My Self says to me, Come, old man, what wilt thou eat this morning? Make some preparation, come, tell me what I am to eat. I tell him, Death; and leave the subject. Then my Self says to me, What shall I put on? I say, The winding-sheet. Then he questions me, and makes most absurd requests, such as, O thou of blind heart, where dost thou wish to go? I say to him, Silence! to the grave-side; so that perhaps while in rebellion against my Self may draw a breath in freedom from the fear of the night-watchman.\nHonour to him who contemns Self, and does not permit it to stand before him.","title":"HE WHO IS INDIFFERENT TO THE WORLD FINDS A KINGDOM THAT S...","type":"page"}