SECRETS OF LIFE
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"THE HONEY CAKES
Scattered throughout India were several schools for those who wished to
become skilled in religious art. Students were taught how to express true
spiritual feeling through painting and music and poetry. The schools were
testing grounds, for only those who learned their preliminary lessons were
permitted to enter the advanced school at Benares. So lazy and insincere
students fell away from time to time, but those who persisted in their
studies were treated to a graduation dinner. For dessert, the graduates
were served special cakes, small in size and rich with honey and spices.
Though wondering at first at the special flavor of the honey cakes, the
graduates soon recognized and enjoyed the extraordinary attraction
possessed by the dessert.
At the advanced school in Benares, it was necessary to eliminate
unqualified applicants and impostors. So all applicants were served with
tea and honey cakes, while the master teacher carefully observed an
applicant's reaction. The teacher knew that only those who had acquired a
taste for the special cakes could recognize and enjoy them. Unqualified
applicants reacted with either dislike or uncertainty, which proved they
had not graduated from the preliminary lessons. So it was the applicants
themselves who either qualified or disqualified themselves for advanced
teachings."
THE INSPIRED LIFE COMES TO YOU
Secrets for Higher Success, Chap. 12, p. 235 (Original version)
Chap. 12, p. 175 (Current version)
