Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Tonic for the Mind - 21

If we drink a cup of coffee and find it bitter, we add sugar to it. But if we do not stir it, the sugar will not fully dissolve and the coffee will remain bitter. In the same way, our personality has become a concoction over the years. If it is still bitter, even after adding the sweetness of knowledge, it means the knowledge has not been absorbed. And with each contact with the world, this bitterness in us automatically reveals. As long as our knowledge remains separate from our nature, it cannot be called true knowledge.

- Swami Tejomayananda

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