“(…) Now people with courage are needed. It is better to die, facing life with courage. To live as a coward is shameful – it is better that the coward drown himself in the river. (…) Awake! Arise! Be brave!”

— Haidakhan Babaji

Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 5 July 1983.

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