Passage 19

In English

As students who have come here to learn and acquire sacred knowledge, you should adopt the right paths and the right methods. In addition to what these experienced persons are going to tell you about the contents of the , you will learn as days go on, what the proper relationship that should obtain between a teacher and the taught is. Moreover, you must also realise that you, as students, should accept the position that there is much that you do not know and you are sitting at the feet of a . What the knows has to be communicated to the student who does not know. The communication that is the process of education, should be followed and gone through along the appropriate and accepted paths with great care, with great confidence in, and respect for, the teacher.