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If You First Fortify Yourself With The True Knowledge Of The Universal Self, And Then Live In The Midst Of Wealth And Worldliness, Surely They Will In No Way Affect You.

What Brahman Is Cannot Be Described. All Things In The World — The Vedas, The Puranas, The Tantras, The Six Systems Of Philosophy — Have Been Defiled, Like Food That Has Been Touched By The Tongue, For They Have Been Read Or Uttered By The Tongue. Only One Thing Has Not Been Defiled In This Way, And That Is Brahman. No One Has Ever Been Able To Say What Brahman Is.

When An Unbaked Pot Is Broken, The Potter Can Use The Mud To Make A New One; But When A Baked One Is Broken, He Cannot Do The Same Any Longer. So When A Person Dies In A State Of Ignorance, He Is Born Again; But When He Becomes Well Baked In The Fire Of True Knowledge And Dies A Perfect Man, He Is Not Born Again.

The Fool Who Repeats Again And Again: "i Am Bound, I Am Bound," Remains In Bondage. He Who Repeats Day And Night: "i Am A Sinner, I Am A Sinner," Becomes A Sinner Indeed.

One Cannot Attain Divine Knowledge Till One Gets Rid Of Pride. Water Does Not Stay On The Top Of A Mound; But Into Low Land It Flows In Torrents From All Sides.