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1.Preface
The only purpose for which this book has been written is to reveal to the world what gnana - knowledge really is and to acquaint them with its condition at different levels of approach. It is of course certain that our religious books speak a lot about it, but unfortunately the (quack) commentators of the later period have on account of their wrong understanding misrepresented the facts in such a way as to drown the very sense.
The responsibility for it lies mainly on those who have made it their profession to indulge in false dealings presenting imitations for the real. They, not taking into account its evil consequences, went on recklessly engendering poison into the hearts of the people. Thus poison alone was administered in place of the nectar and spirituality was in fact strangulated at the very outset. Undoubtedly they ruined not only themselves but also others by their misguidance. Learned lectures, spirited sermons and manifold discourses are all the merit that attracts the minds of the people these days. As the masses were so did they get the leader to guide them on. They applauded him for his show of knowledge and he in his turn went on imposing more and more of his importance
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