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not at all contribute to the Happiness of the Soul, because only a very small quantity of this nectar-like knowledge, is capable of destroying the malady of endness Karmas.
Persons intent on making the first objection to a proposition for a controversy, and persons busy with raising objections to it, as well as, persons believing in unascertainable objects, do not fully attain the knowledge of the true nature of the Soul, like an ox walking round and round an oil-mill; because, such persons chiefly aim at defeating their adversary, and obtaining victory over him, and hence they consequently do not understand the true nature of objects. Besides, by depending on the un-investigated form of an object, without accurately deciding on the true nature of such objects, one cannot experience, the highly natural knowledge of the Soul. Just as an ox tied to an oil-mill, cannot reach any distant land although he has been walking round and round a number of times, in the same way, an individual undesirous of the knowledge of Truth, does not even touch the boundary of essential knowledge, although he may have done studious efforts in other branches of knowledge
Continuing further, he said,
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