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The aspirant comes to the philosophic teacher with a mind filled by error and ignorance. He comes to the philosophic life with a character filled by egoism and prejudice. Thus he is the largest stumbling block in his own path. He himself prevents the spiritual consciousness from approaching him. So, the first duty of a teacher is to show him all this error, ignorance, egoism, and prejudice for the ugly things they are and make him aware and ashamed of them.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 475