strings: But that is the last thing we want: to know ourselves. Surely that is the only foundation on which we can build. But, before we can build, before we can transforrn, before we can condemn or destroy, we must know that which we are. To go out seeking, changing teachers, gurus, practising yoga, breathing, performing rituals, following Masters and all the rest of it, is utterly useless, is it not? It has no meaning, even though the very people whom we follow may say: "Study yourself", because what we are, the world is. If we are petty, jealous, vain, greedy that is what we create about us, that is the society in which we live.