Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.
Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
The Ganga remains sacred from Gomukh, its source, to Ganga sagar, where it enters the ocean. It sanctifies the tributaries, which attain the very nature of Ganga. Similar is Sanskrit; sacred by itself, it sanctifies all that come into its contact.
Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.
