What is Knowledge : Ch-1. Part-5.

Ch-1. The Knowledge Situation.


Part-5.


But one does not know that life is not constituted merely of these necessities.

We are neither political units entirely, nor persons involved in society wholly, nor physical bodies one hundred percent, nor anything exclusively, for the matter of that, though it is true that we are all these things also, at the same time.

We are sons and daughters of some people; we may be bosses or subordinates, we may be rich or poor, we may be happy or unhappy under given conditions – but we are none of these entirely.

We may be something in ourselves other than being a daughter or son of somebody, other than being associated with circumstances which we call political, social or economic.

If these associations are cut off, we may be still somebody. Do we mean to say that we will be nobody if we have nothing with us?

If we are nobody in the political field, nobody in society, we have no family, perhaps we have not even food to eat – have we reduced ourselves to a nothing, or are we something even then?

We will feel that we are not a zero, that we are not going to be a nothing or a nobody even if everything is going to be taken away from us vitally, externally.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ...