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     Excerpts from the Holy Bible: Ecclesiastes – The Quest for Wisdom

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           The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2Vanity of
vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3What does man gain by
all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever. 5The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the
place where it rises. 6The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and
round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
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 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again. 8All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is
not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the
sun.
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  Is there a thing of which it is said ‘See, this is new? It has been already, in the ages
before us. 11There is no remembrance of former things, or will there be any
remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.
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  I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13And I applied my mind to
seek and search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business
that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. 14I have seen everything that is
done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. 15What is
crooked cannot be made straight and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
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 I said to myself, ‘I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over
Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and
knowledge.’ 17And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I
perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. 18For in much wisdom is much
vexation and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

[Vanity is an unsubstantial or unreal thing; empty display; vain pride in oneself,
conceit, self-conceit. What we are undergoing now is the result of our own actions in
previous lives. Our current life is only a part of that huge stored account lying in seed
form within each one of us and made available to each individual as conscious faculty of
soul. There is nothing new that we can do. What is new that can be done in current
human life is to know one-self, to know the Creative Power in form of Light and
Sound and then know our Creator. This will end all our coming and going forever.]
[Wisdom here implies knowledge acquired through senses and worldly experience and it
is not the real Wisdom endowed with our soul.]

2 1I said to myself, ‘Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.’ But
behold, this also was vanity. 2I said of laughter, ‘It is mad,’ and of pleasure, ‘What use is
it?’ 3I searched with my mind how to cheer my body…what was good for sons of men to
do under heaven during the few days of their life. 4I made great works; I built houses and
planted vineyards for myself; 5I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all
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kinds of fruit trees…8I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings
and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man’s delight.
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 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom
remained with me. 10And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my
heart from no pleasure…11Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I
had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there
was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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  So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can man do who
comes after the king? Only what he has already done. 13Then I saw that wisdom
excels folly as light excels darkness. 14The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool
walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them. 15Then I said to
myself, ‘What befalls the fool will befall me also, why then have I been so very wise?’
And I said to myself that this also is vanity.
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  For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in
the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the
fool! So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is
vanity and a striving after wind.
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  I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to
the man who will come after me; and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a
fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun.
This also is vanity…22What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils
beneath the sun? 23For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in
the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity.
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 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find
enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; 25 for apart from him
who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26For to the man who pleases him God gives
wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and
heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after
wind.

3 1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2a
time to be born, and a time to die… 6a time to seek, and a time to loose…9What gain
has the worker from his toil? 14I know that whatever God does endures for ever;
nothing can be added to it, or anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that
men should fear before him. 15That, which is, already has been; that which is to be,
already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
16
  Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was
wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness…18I said in
my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they
are but beasts. 19For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one
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dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the
beasts; for all is vanity. 20All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust
again…

[We are undergoing the cycle of evolution and devolution and there seems to be no
escape from it. It is His Command which is the real doer; we are only puppets playing to
our own tunes as per His Law. Our soul is a spark of His Divinity and we were sent to
experience His creation. Unfortunately we have forgotten our Creator that is why He
seeks what has been driven away. We cannot seek Him because we do not know how to
seek Him. It is He who seeks us but we should have the desire to know our creator.]

4 1Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the
tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! … 2And I thought the
dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive; 3but better
than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under
the sun. 4Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his
neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind…

5 1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is
better then to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing
evil. … 4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in
fools. Pay what you vow. 5It is better that you should not vow than that you should
vow and not pay…8If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right
violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched
by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them…10He who loves money will
not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
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   When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to
see them with his eyes? 12Sweet is the sleep of the laborer, whether he eats little or much;
but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep…
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  As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall
take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand. 16This also is a
grievous evil; just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the
wind, 17and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness
and resentment? …

6 1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men: 2a man
to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all
that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger
enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction…7All the toil of man is for his mouth,
yet his appetite is not satisfied. 8For what advantage has the wise man over the fool?
And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
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  Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a
striving after wind.
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  Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and
he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. 11The more words, the more vanity,
and what is man the better? 12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few
days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be
after him under the sun?

7 7Surely, oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.
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 Better is the end of a thing than it’s beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than
the proud in spirit…10Say not, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’ For it
is not from wisdom that you ask this…13Consider the work of God; who can make
straight what he has made crooked?
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  Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.
20
  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. 21Do not
give heed to all the things that men say, lest you hear your servant cursing; your heart
knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

8 1Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s
wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his countenance is changed…5He
who obeys a command will meet no harm, and the mind of a wise man will know the
time and way.
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 For every matter has its time and way, although man’s trouble lies heavy upon him.
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 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell how it will be? 8No man has power
to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war,
nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. 9All this I observed while applying
my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.
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  When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on
earth, how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep; 17then I saw all the work of God,
that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may
toil in seeking, he will not find it out, even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot
find it out.

9 8Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head. 9Enjoy life
with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under
the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the
sun. 10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or
thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
17
  The words of the wise heard in quite are better than the shouting of a ruler among
fools. 18Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

10 1Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly
outweighs wisdom and honor. 2A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s
heart toward the left. 8He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who
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breaks through a wall. 9He who quarries stones is hurt by them; and he who splits logs is
endangered by them.

11 1Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. 2Give a portion
to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth…4He who
observes the wind will not sow; and he who regards the clouds will not reap. 5As you do
not know the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of a woman with
child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
6
 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do
not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
9
 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your
youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know for all these
things God will bring you into judgment. 10Remove vexation from your mind, and put
away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

12 1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days
come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’;…6before
the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the
fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7and the dust returns to earth as it was, and
the spirit returns to God who gave it. 8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.
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 Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and
studying and arranging proverbs with great care. 10The Preacher sought to find
pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.
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  The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected
sayings, which are given by one Shepherd. 12My son, beware of anything beyond these.
Of making many books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13
 The end of the matter; all has been heard. FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS
COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. 14For God
will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

[Real Wisdom endowed with our soul will get invoked by itself when we withdraw our
attention from ‘nine outlets’ of the body and concentrate it at ‘third eye’ between the two
eyebrows. As of now we have hundred percent attention engaged in awareness of
created world day in and day out. We must start paying some attention to create
awareness of knowing our real-self, Creative Power and our Creator.]

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  • 1. ~1~ Excerpts from the Holy Bible: Ecclesiastes – The Quest for Wisdom 1 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 6The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 7 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. 8All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said ‘See, this is new? It has been already, in the ages before us. 11There is no remembrance of former things, or will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after. 12 I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13And I applied my mind to seek and search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. 14I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. 15What is crooked cannot be made straight and what is lacking cannot be numbered. 16 I said to myself, ‘I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.’ 17And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. 18For in much wisdom is much vexation and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. [Vanity is an unsubstantial or unreal thing; empty display; vain pride in oneself, conceit, self-conceit. What we are undergoing now is the result of our own actions in previous lives. Our current life is only a part of that huge stored account lying in seed form within each one of us and made available to each individual as conscious faculty of soul. There is nothing new that we can do. What is new that can be done in current human life is to know one-self, to know the Creative Power in form of Light and Sound and then know our Creator. This will end all our coming and going forever.] [Wisdom here implies knowledge acquired through senses and worldly experience and it is not the real Wisdom endowed with our soul.] 2 1I said to myself, ‘Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.’ But behold, this also was vanity. 2I said of laughter, ‘It is mad,’ and of pleasure, ‘What use is it?’ 3I searched with my mind how to cheer my body…what was good for sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life. 4I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself; 5I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all
  • 2. ~2~ kinds of fruit trees…8I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man’s delight. 9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. 10And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure…11Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. 12 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done. 13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. 14The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them. 15Then I said to myself, ‘What befalls the fool will befall me also, why then have I been so very wise?’ And I said to myself that this also is vanity. 16 For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool! So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind. 18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me; and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity…22What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun? 23For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity. 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. 3 1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2a time to be born, and a time to die… 6a time to seek, and a time to loose…9What gain has the worker from his toil? 14I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, or anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him. 15That, which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away. 16 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness…18I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts. 19For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one
  • 3. ~3~ dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity. 20All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again… [We are undergoing the cycle of evolution and devolution and there seems to be no escape from it. It is His Command which is the real doer; we are only puppets playing to our own tunes as per His Law. Our soul is a spark of His Divinity and we were sent to experience His creation. Unfortunately we have forgotten our Creator that is why He seeks what has been driven away. We cannot seek Him because we do not know how to seek Him. It is He who seeks us but we should have the desire to know our creator.] 4 1Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! … 2And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive; 3but better than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. 4Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind… 5 1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better then to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil. … 4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay…8If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them…10He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes? 12Sweet is the sleep of the laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep… 15 As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand. 16This also is a grievous evil; just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind, 17and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment? … 6 1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men: 2a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction…7All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. 8For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • 4. ~4~ 10 Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. 11The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better? 12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun? 7 7Surely, oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind. 8 Better is the end of a thing than it’s beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit…10Say not, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’ For it is not from wisdom that you ask this…13Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked? 19 Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city. 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. 21Do not give heed to all the things that men say, lest you hear your servant cursing; your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others. 8 1Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his countenance is changed…5He who obeys a command will meet no harm, and the mind of a wise man will know the time and way. 6 For every matter has its time and way, although man’s trouble lies heavy upon him. 7 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell how it will be? 8No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. 9All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt. 16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep; 17then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out, even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out. 9 8Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head. 9Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. 10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. 17 The words of the wise heard in quite are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools. 18Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. 10 1Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart toward the left. 8He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who
  • 5. ~5~ breaks through a wall. 9He who quarries stones is hurt by them; and he who splits logs is endangered by them. 11 1Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. 2Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth…4He who observes the wind will not sow; and he who regards the clouds will not reap. 5As you do not know the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. 6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good. 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know for all these things God will bring you into judgment. 10Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. 12 1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’;…6before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7and the dust returns to earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity. 9 Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging proverbs with great care. 10The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. 11 The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings, which are given by one Shepherd. 12My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. 14For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. [Real Wisdom endowed with our soul will get invoked by itself when we withdraw our attention from ‘nine outlets’ of the body and concentrate it at ‘third eye’ between the two eyebrows. As of now we have hundred percent attention engaged in awareness of created world day in and day out. We must start paying some attention to create awareness of knowing our real-self, Creative Power and our Creator.]