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The eagerness to surrender every responsibility, every decision, every care to a spiritual guide--which is so prominent in India--is only praiseworthy in some cases. In others, it is neurotic and infantile, an attempt to secure indulgent pity, protection, and gregarious support despite the fact that childhood has been physically outgrown. To take it as a sign of advancement, and to use it as an excuse to evade pressing work of self-reform and self-discipline, is deplorable.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 728