“To follow the path of knowledge is to tread on the edge of a sword.
Once you get into it, there is no escape.”

—  Tulsidas

Tulsidas's practical approach, quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern", p. 80

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Hindu poet-saint 1532–1623

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