There is something peculiar about the instant that a fragment of knowledge comes into us. It hardly ever comes alone. Right after it comes the ego, the feeling of pride of “I now know something” that creeps up unnoticed. Knowledge itself has no place for ego, as the two cannot exist together. But crushing the ego, preventing it from growing into arrogance, is something we cannot accomplish on our own. For that we need somebody else, somebody we have always revered in our culture, the Guru.
