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Chapter XI LEARNING
Swami Ranganathananda says, “Spiritual knowledge helps us to swim across the sea of the world, those who are bereft of this knowledge are deluded by wealth, they die, not knowing how to swim across the sea of the world. The tragedy can be averted by man continuing his education from the knowledge of the perishable to the knowledge of the imperishable self.” ( Message of Upanişads, p. 311 )
Education is the manifestation of divine qualities already inherent in man. A spiritual teacher imparts that knowledge by which karmas are destroyed. Lord Mahāvīra says, “By scriptural study, one acquires knowledge, is fixed in religion and helps others to be so fixed. Thus by studying multifarious Sūtras he becomes absorbed in the contemplation of what is expounded therein.” ( Daśa. Sū. 9.4.3 )
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