Contentment supreme

• Contentment wins
  Without resistance;
  The world accepts and sings in praises;
  It destroys greed,
  Spreads love and peace all around (1)
  

• Heart is the abode of contentment,
  Considers the heaven wane,
  No sorrow or grief knows, that heart,
  Enjoys the bliss that is supreme (2)
  

• Unblemished is he, who is contented,
  Away from greed and crooked ways ;
  San+kara says,
  He realises his true self easily (3)
  

• Happy is he who is contented,
  Enjoys peace in every trial,
  The error of judgement, you and me
  Vanishes like vapour (4)
  

• The contented is happy always,
  Loves all without discrimination ;
  No friend, no foe,
  All are reflections of his own self (5)
  

• The person contented
  Crosses the ocean of the worldly life,
  Without difficulty ;
  All his problems resolve in peace (6)
  

• Lord grants wisdom to the person, contented in life
  Blesses him with a simple heart, pure body
  Bestows upon him the boond of deliverance (7)
  

• The erudite sages know the strength
  Of contentment ;
  With it they crush the demon of greed,
  Open the path to eminence. (8)
  

• Saint is he who is contented,
  Gives up attachment, lives equanimity,
  Has no friend or no enemy
  Loves all without discrimination (9)
  

• The contented reach the state of truth
  And of deliverance
  Sankara says,
  For such a being
  the king and the destitute
  are equal and similar (10)
  

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