One Who Finds an Illumined Teacher

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As a man from Gandhara, blindfolded,Led away and left in a lonely place,Turns to the east and west and north and southAnd shouts, 'I am left here and cannot see!'Until one removes his blindfold and says,'There lies Gandhara; follow that path,'And thus informed, able to see for himself,The man inquires from village to villageAnd reaches his homeland at last--just so,My son, one who finds an illumined teacherAttains to spiritual wisdom in the Self.-Chandogya Upanishad

From The Upanishads, translated by Eknath Easwaran, copyright 1987.