The Great Commandment / Core Dharma

Matthew 22:37-39

“Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'”

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (Shema)

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

Quran 2:177

“Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but righteousness is in one who has believed in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the prophets and gives wealth in spite of love for it to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask for aid, and for freeing slaves.”

Bhagavad Gita 18:66

“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.”

Dhammapada 183

“To abstain from all evil, to cultivate good, and to purify the mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.”

Guru Granth Sahib p.4

“There is One Supreme Eternal Reality, the Creator, permeating all existence, without fear, without enmity, immortal, never incarnated, self-existent, known by grace through the Guru.”