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or of life; and it stops at getting away from an unpleasant sensation — this should not be; the mind should go a little further and not be satisfied the moment the pleasant sensation is obtained or the unpleasant one removed; when a pleasant or unpleasant sensation strikes the mind the thinking should be followed up about it.
Prejudice is also a state of mind which prevents right belief; any sort of prejudice will prevent a right belief, and should not therefore be encouraged.
Right Knowledge. Study, mere study, is not knowledge. Mere book learning is not knowledge. Hearsay is not knowledge.
The differentia of knowledge is that it is consciousness; a relationship, a conscious relationship between a knower and the thing known. In order that there may be knowledge there
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