What is Knowledge : Ch-1. Part-7.

Ch-1. The Knowledge Situation.


Part-7.


It is difficult to understand what we are really seeking.

The understanding in this regard is difficult to acquire because clear, impartial, all-comprehensive understanding cannot operate except as an expression of real freedom of what we really are.

The expression of what we really are – not what we appear to be – is what we call freedom.

But most of us are appearances rather than realities.

We work in a particular manner because we are something politically, something socially, something in relation to something, something physically, and something under a given psychological condition.



We are always something under some condition, and because we are tentatively something in that condition, we have to behave in a particular manner.

That manner in which we behave under a given condition due to a tentative pressure, whether it is external or internal, cannot be regarded as an act of real freedom, because freedom is what we exercise from the bottom of the truth of our being.

Unless we know what we really are, we cannot know what freedom is.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ...