How can the pure and the impure be sorted
out, when even the skin and flesh of men
cannot be separated? With God, no quality makes
a thing great or small. Is water a different thing
according as it comes from a stream, a well, a
rivulet, or a river? Does the sun choose out rays
for different purposes? His splendour sucks up
all moisture alike. The milk of different cows does
not vary in colour; it is the same in the case of all.
You cannot distinguish between different kinds of
earth, but pots have different names according as
they are prepared in different ways. Fire behaves
always in the same way; it does not consider one
sort of fuel pure and another impure. Tuka says,
The fitness of the receiver is the point we should
consider—or shall we say that nectar is sweet, if
it is mixed with poison?
out, when even the skin and flesh of men
cannot be separated? With God, no quality makes
a thing great or small. Is water a different thing
according as it comes from a stream, a well, a
rivulet, or a river? Does the sun choose out rays
for different purposes? His splendour sucks up
all moisture alike. The milk of different cows does
not vary in colour; it is the same in the case of all.
You cannot distinguish between different kinds of
earth, but pots have different names according as
they are prepared in different ways. Fire behaves
always in the same way; it does not consider one
sort of fuel pure and another impure. Tuka says,
The fitness of the receiver is the point we should
consider—or shall we say that nectar is sweet, if
it is mixed with poison?