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Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after
death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of
the unborn & deathless self of which body is only an instrument
and a shadow.
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They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not ex-
ist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and
embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings
of others or my own experience?
CWSA 12: 423-24

Logic is the worst enemy of Truth, as self-righteousness is the
worst enemy of virtue, — for the one cannot see its own errors
nor the other its own imperfections.
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The sign of dawning Knowledge is to feel that as yet I know
little or nothing, & yet, if I could only know my knowledge, I
already possess everything.
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When Wisdom comes, her first lesson is, "There is no such thing
as knowledge; there are only aperçus of the Infinite Deity."
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Practical knowledge is a different thing; that is real and ser-
viceable, but it is never complete. Therefore to systematise and
codify it is necessary but fatal.
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Revelation is the direct sight, the direct hearing or the inspired
memory of Truth, drishti, sruti, smriti; it is the highest experience
and always accessible to renewed experience. Not because God
spoke it, but because the soul saw it, is the word of the Scrip-
tures our supreme authority.
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