What is Knowledge : Ch-1. Part-10.

Ch-1. The Knowledge Situation.


Part-10.



A correct understanding of ourself is essential before we try to understand what is outside us.

With the so-called scientific outlook prevalent these days, we are likely to again lay overemphasis on external nature rather than the experimenter or the observer, the scientist himself.

Is the scientist less important than that which he is observing?

And do we not believe that his capacity to observe contributes as much to the conclusions he arrives at as the nature of the object that he is observing?

But this is easily missed.

We again lay too much emphasis on the reality of externals as if they are all the reality, not knowing that the character of reality that the world presents before us is certainly conditioned by the way in which we are able to receive this knowledge.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ...