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# The Four Manners of God

Living in a manner that pervades
all manner of Friendly Vibrations
throughout every direction
to every manner of being
and wishing for them too
the experience of Friendly Vibrations.

Living in a manner that pervades
all manner of Sympathetic Vibrations
throughout every direction
to every manner of being
and wishing for them too
the experience of Sympathetic Vibrations.

Living in a manner that pervades
all manner of Empathetic Vibrations
throughout every direction
to every manner of being
and wishing for them too
the experience of Empathetic Vibrations.

Living in a manner that reflects
utter Objective Detachment
from absolutely everything
throughout every direction
including every manner of being
but wishing for them too
the experience of Utter Objective Detachment.

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On one occasion the Master thus addressed the Brotherhood: "Brethren, charity practiced with all devotion of thought, meditated upon, increased, made a vehicle of progress, made your one object, practiced, well begun, may be expected to produce Eleven Blessings.

What are these eleven?

Happy he sleeps and happy he awakes;
he sees no bad dreams;
men love him;
spirits guard him;
fire, poison, and sword come not near him;
quickly he becomes absorbed in mind;
his look grows calm;
he dies undismayed;
without need of further wisdom he goes to Brahma's heaven.

Charity, Brethren, practiced with renunciation of one's wishes" — and so forth — "may be expected to produce these eleven blessings.

Praising the charity which holds these eleven blessings, Brethren,
a Brother ought to show kindness to all creatures,
whether expressly commanded or not,
he should be a friend to the friendly,
aye a friend to the unfriendly,
and a friend to the indifferent:
thus to all without distinction,
whether expressly bidden or not,
he should show charity:
he should show sympathy with joy and sorrow and practice equanimity;
he should do his work by means of the four excellences.

By so doing he will go to Brahma's heaven even without path or fruit.

—Jātaka Stories No. 169