“(…) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas.”

Clean, well-ordered life
Source: "I am That." P.31.

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Indian guru 1897–1981

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