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from scriptural sources, could perhaps rattle it off ad-lib, write a thesis on it and get a doctorate or even manage to browbeat his opponents into accepting this doctrine with logic and force of argument, yet, without practising it himself, he would continue to remain entangled with the dualities of like-dislike, honourinsult, gain-loss. So too, the atomic scientist, like any ordinary mortal continues to suffer from abberations of lust, craving, attachment etc. just as before. The scholar or the scientist do not have firsthand experience/ knowledge, it is borrowed from others, hence their mis-comprehension does not break. Disillusionment does not take place without personal firsthand experience. Intellectual understanding by itself is insufficient to bring about radical changes in one's attitude towards life. Only wisdom born out of self-experience gained after transcending the mind, can accomplish it.
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