“Do not be a threat to others or consider others to be a threat to you. Deliver only the message of the sages that you have received directly or what has been revealed in the Vedas and the Upanishads.”

—  Govinda Bhagavatpada

The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition (2002)

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