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Why do people call me learned? What is the mark of real learning? Learning that all garnered knowledge of things is empty ignorance and that true knowledge is the search for the Knower.
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Those who, learning to forget completely all objective knowledge, turn inward firmly and see clearly the truth, abide serene. Those who try to recall forgotten things pine bewildered, fretting over false phenomena.
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When knowledge marred by doubt and error disappears in true Awareness clear and pure, one thus established firmly in Self-Being, free from falsehood, has crossed over to the further shore of the river of knowledge.
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Even the knowledge sense-perceived of the world without has for its ground the Self above. To search for knowledge somewhere else apart from That is but to grasp the shadow, not the substance.
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Whatever notion may arise, never to let it live or grow, but to turn it that very instant, firm and stern, back to its source and merge it there, this is robust, intense detachment.
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Many are the ills that flow from mixing with mad folks afflicted with turbid minds and rattling tongues. Best friendship is with those good men whose minds are dead and who abide in the pure silence of awareness.
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Those who do not dive into the Heart and there confront the Self in the five sheaths hid are only students answering out of books clever questions raised by books, and not true seekers of the Self.