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aspires to self-knowledge is not in the least bothered about his name. He knows that he was not born with it and he is not going to take it away with him. It was given to him by others and so it matters little if nobody knows his name. And yet how hypersensitive about unimportant things are the spiritually ignorant! They are easily irritated and feel insulted over trifles. They demand their meed of respect from others, forgetting that the man who is ignorant of his true self cannot give respect.
When somebody spreads tales about you, even if it is unjust or unpleasant, do not allow yourself to be upset by it. Just say to yourself that this is his opinion of you, not his knowledge of you. Opinions are often formed by the external eye, the eye of flesh and blood; knowledge comes through the inner eye. The vision of the inner eye which opens a window to yourself is the vision which comes with true knowledge. When the man who has developed this knowledge is asked his name he will certainly give it, but within himself he knows that he is not his name.
The man with perfect knowledge has freed himself from the petty distinctions of sect and creed. Oneness and unity are not spread through lectures and ser
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