What is Knowledge : Ch-1. Part-19.

Ch-1. The Knowledge Situation.


Part-19.



To expect one thing or another thing from somebody else is to keep that person at arm's length, and we are not really united in our being with that object.

The word 'object' that we usually use is indicative of that something with which we have not communed ourselves.

It is not a friend.

An object cannot be a friend, and a friend is not our object.

The world is an object of the physicist, of the scientist, of the psychologist, of the chemist, of even the physician; it has never become our friend.

Why should the world treat us as our friend?

If we are not going to accept the world as our own, why do we expect the world to treat us as its own?




In a way, in a very important sense, the world is our own face reflected in the mirror of space and time.

We are seeing our own self when we look at the world through this mirror we call the space-time continuum.

When we smile at the world, the world smiles at us.

If we grin, it will also grin.

What we do to it, it does back to us.

It is so because of the fact that, basically, the world does not seem to be so segregated from our personal lives as we imagine in our ignorance.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....