What is Knowledge : Ch-1. Part-4.

Ch-1. The Knowledge Situation.


Part-4.


It is not that we are going to be secure in this world and be scot free merely because we have bread and jam to eat up to the brim.
There are troubles which can threaten us and shake the very ground under our feet, in spite of all the commodities that we may be hoarding in our house which make us physically secure.

The tragedy of modern life may be said to consist mainly in an overemphasis laid on certain pressures exerted by the sense organs and even by the mind and the ego of the personality.

We are often politically oriented, socially oriented, economically oriented, family oriented, sex oriented and pleasure oriented. All these are not unknown to us in our daily life.




But oftentimes, all these aspects do not come in a heap or a crowd.

They come one at a time, two at a time, three at a time – not all at a time.

We have not been able to face all of them at the same time; one or two come and speak to us in their own language.

Often, the language which they use is so vehement that we are likely to accede to their request even to the detriment of the needs of other values of life.

We can commit burglary, assault people – if only our stomach is to be filled with food.

This tragedy of outlook can arise due to a hundred percent emphasis laid on one need only: the maintenance of the body, maybe the maintenance of a family.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....