"Venerable sir, I know only the texts; I am not a knower of the Self. From men like you I have heard that the knower of the Self crosses beyond sorrow. I am in sorrow, venerable sir; take me across to the far shore of sorrow." Sanatkumara said to him, "Whatever you have studied here is really only name."
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- Chandogya Upanishad
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