What does the wise one want from you? || Acharya Prashant, on Hsin Hsin Ming (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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What does the wise one want from you?
How is the importance of wisdom literature?

This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant

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