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Gautama saw much evidence among the Hindus of their traditions of guru-worship and their cults of personal adulation. To prevent this arising among those who accepted his teaching, he commanded that his own person was to remain unpictured in art, ungraven in image. But this was too much to ask of sentimental, devotional, and emotional humanity.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 833