26. स पूर्वेषाम् अपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात् ॥ २६ ॥ sa poorvesham api guruh kalenanavachchhedat He is the Teacher of even the ancient teachers, being not … - Swami Vivekananda

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26. स पूर्वेषाम् अपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात् ॥ २६ ॥
sa poorvesham api guruh kalenanavachchhedat
He is the Teacher of even the ancient teachers, being not limited by time. It is true that all knowledge is within ourselves, but this has to be called forth by another knowledge. Although the capacity to know is inside us, it must be called out, and that calling out of knowledge can only be got, a Yogi maintains, through another knowledge. Dead, insentient matter, never calls out knowledge. It is the action of knowledge that brings out knowledge. Knowing beings must be with us to call forth what is in us, so these teachers were always necessary. The world was never without them, and no knowledge can come without them. God is the Teacher of all teachers, because these teachers, however great they may have been—gods or angels—were all bound and limited by time, and God is not limited by time. ...