70. Difficult to Understand

70. DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.

1. My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practise, but in the world no one can understand, no one can practise them.

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2. Words have an ancestor; Deeds have a master [viz., Reason]. Since he is not understood, therefore I am not understood. Those who understand me are few, and thus I am distinguished.

3. Therefore the holy man wears wool, and hides in his bosom his jewels.