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Introductory Paras

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The danger of most pseudo-spiritual paths is that they stimulate the ego, whereas the authentic path will suffocate it.

2

The best measuring-stick for progress is, in earlier stages, the degree of disappearance of the ego's rule and, in later ones, the degree of disappearance of the ego itself.