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discoveries. He was studying in school. One day the teacher wrote to his guardians saying, “Your child is dull. He is not fit enough to study. Take him away from school.” The child was removed from school. The same child, Edison, became one of the greatest scientists of the world. The main reason for this was that within him, experience-based conscious was aroused. He was able to transgress the limits of the self.
May we understand the limits of the self. When man goes deep into the self, then he moves into the realm of experience and when that happens, a special light bursts into being. A source is revealed from which thousands of rays of truth emerge and fill the entire being with brightness. All darkness vanishes. The one who relies solely on bookish knowledge, relies on others, gives great importance to the limits set by others and is not able to recognize the limits of his self, will always continue to fall. He can never rise above it all. He can never shed the darkness around him. His problems are never solved and get only more complicated. It astonishes me a great deal when I hear that the writer who is able to give happiness and lessons to millions, is himself unhappy. What kind of life is this that a man who
Acharya Mahaprajna
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