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What Time Reveals: On Cruelty, Compassion, and the Fire of Realization

Vira Chandra

Book knowledge needs to be thrown away; it is stored information, and is always in the past, while Truth is in the Present - eternally flowing, pulsating with life

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Wild animals recognize true Sadhus; do not try to imitate such sadhus and try taming wild animals

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Closeness to nature, eventually ‘de-conditions’ the mind and one is in touch with God

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