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It was the knowledge of
It was the knowledge of
good and evil that brought
good and evil that brought
grief and sin into the world;
grief and sin into the world;
when that knowledge is is
when that knowledge
surmounted, man will rise
surmounted, man will rise
above grief and sin. Before
above grief and sin. Before
he ate the forbidden fruit,
he ate the forbidden fruit,
he had the innocence of
he had the innocence of
the animal; when he shall
the animal; when he shall
cease to eat it, he will have
cease to eat it, he will have
the innocence of the God.
the innocence of the God.
Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 13: 62
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