Plain text of Seventh Prapathaka · Eighth Khanda
7.8.1 "Strength, assuredly, is more than understanding. Indeed, one man of strength causes a hundred men of understanding to tremble. When one is becoming strong, he becomes a rising man. Rising, he becomes an attendant. Attending, he becomes attached as a pupil. Attached as a pupil, he becomes a seer, he becomes a hearer, he becomes a thinker, he becomes a perceiver, he becomes a doer, he becomes an understander. By strength, verily, the earth stands, by God's decree; by strength, the atmosphere; by strength, the sky; by strength, the mountains; by strength, angels and men; by strength, beasts and birds, grass and trees, animals together with worms, flies, and ants. By strength the world stands. Honor strength as a gift of God.
7.8.2 He who honors strength as a gift of God, as far as strength goes, so far he has freedom, he who honors strength as a gift of God."
"Is there, Sir, more than strength?"
"There is, assuredly, more than strength."
"Do you, Sir, tell me it."