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There are many views as to what constitutes the highest Indian teaching. However, we have yet to find in India or any other country a perfect agreement between high teaching and personal conduct; the first is so easy and the latter so hard. The reconciliation is easily effected by attaining the TRUTH, which is not that personal life is wholly illusory and dreamlike (that is taught only to beginners to disengage them from over-attachment) but that divinity and reality are everywhere, for they are ONE, hence the individual life is just as real as any other. It has to be realized, however, and the way to this realization lies through preliminary sacrifice of it, but it does not end there.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 2 : India Part 1 > # 358