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The difference is great, that makes iron gold;
Thi makes one equal to it.
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philosopher's stone converts iron into gold only, and not into what it in itself, but as by serving a theosophist a pea becomes himself a theosophist, hence their difference is ore!. Because with the knowledge imparted to him by the professor he becomes a Brat ma, and is freed from transmigration.
Asks the pupil. Lord, say whether the usual works for procuring the company of a Guru are productive of results or not? And is thus met in reply.
More than a Brahmana duly initiated and practising lawful works,
A person recc. ́es results at cvery step, when repairing to the wise.
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A superior Brahmana of the Goutam, Poulastya etc., (Gotra) sect, who has been properly initiated, and had received the sacred thread before he was eight years old, always engaged in the performance of sacrificial works laid down in the Vedas, as for instance offering clarified butter to fire in rescribed unner, and deriving the results spoken of in the astras, cannot stand in the scale when weighed with serving the wise : for, a person with a desire of associating with a Guru receives the desirable results at each step, as he advances, when repairing to him. [In short the very first step that he puts on the ground, while repairing to a theosophist, brings him good result].
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Virtues like kindness and the rest; restraining the mind,
Devotional exercise and the recanting of sacred texts, Abstaining from prohibited works, indifference and gift,
What results they produce, are equally produced by serving a Guru.
