“For the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched.”

— Mahavatar Babaji

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 36 : Babaji's Interest in the West

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