Buddha destroyed authorities, with bitter irony he castigated book wisdom as empty nonsense or daring extravagance; He treated the caste arrogance of the Brahmans with no less severity: “Whoever, repeating the songs and sayings of the ancient sages, imagines himself wise like them, is likened to a commoner or a slave. The student believes what the teacher believes; the teacher believes in what he has learned from previous teachers. The speech of a brahmana is like a line of blind men: the one standing in front sees nothing, the one standing in the middle sees nothing, the one standing behind sees nothing. How can we be here? Under such conditions, is the faith of the Brahmins worth anything?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru