#book-knowledge

Reality in Forty Verses - Supplement (Ulladu Narpadu - Anubandham), V. 34

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Note : The attachment to endless book-knowledge and the pride which results from such knowledge, are a far greater obstacle to the subsidence of the ego than the attachment which an ordinary person has, towards his wife and children.

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For those who do not intend to destroy the letters (of destiny) by scrutinizing where they were born who have learnt the letters (of the scriptures), what is the use of (their) having learnt (those) letters? They have (merely) acquired the nature of a sound-recording machine. Say, O Sonagiri (Arunachala), the knower (of reality), who else (are they but mere sound-recording machines)?

~ Reality in Forty Verses - Supplement (Ulladu Narpadu - Anubandham), V. 35

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Note: The writings of destiny or prarabdha, can be destroyed for ever only by destroying the ego, the experiencer of prarabdha. The only purpose of reading the letters of the scriptures is to learn the path by which one can destroy the ego, and to strengthen in one the liking to destroy the ego. Therefore those who have no intention to destroy the ego learning the letters of the scriptures will be of no use. Instead of attaining the egoless state of self abidance, such people will only attain the proud state of being able to repeat whatever they have learnt like a sound – recording machine.

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