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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
upon them. Thus he came to be generally accepted as the knower of true knowledge, who deserves all honour and respect. Thus his means of livelihood were ensured safely and in a most honourable way. This is all that he got as the reward of his labours.
But if anyone was to question him as to whether the sermon he preached was the one based on his personal experiences or on experiences of others which he had borrowed from books, he would only say “whatever it might be it is after all the very wisdom”. Some people went even so far as to presume that mere acceptance of the transitory nature of the material world and the infinite character of the Divine is all that wisdom implies. This goes to mean that they can relish the taste of a mango by simply talking about its sweetness. Can the description of the taste ever satisfy the appetite of the listener or can the hunger of a man be ever appeased by preaching to him that bread can satisfy the hunger? Certainly not. But still these pseudo-religious leaders feel greatly exalted to think that they had preached a grand sermon and that they were real gnanis (knowers of true knowledge). This is exactly as a man who enacts the role of a king on a stage goes about afterwards thinking himself to be a king in a real sense. Can he ever command the same honour and influence as a real king would? Let a person assume himself whatever he wills but that will always be far from reality and it will not be difficult to judge at sight the real worth and the level of approach of such vain preachers.
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