What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-11.

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Chapter-2. The Necessity to Understand What Real Knowledge Is :



Part-11.


He vehemently, inveterately and adamantly sticks to the present condition of what is reported to his senses and particularly to his emotions.

There is a necessity to connect the past and the future to what we are at the present.

This is almost the beginning of an educational career.

If there is nothing to learn, and we know everything already, and our opinion is set, and our outlook of life is permanently settled in our brain, why do we want to go to any school or college?

Why should we listen to anybody?

Why should we hear; why should we read?

Everything is clear to us. "I know all things."

What is the problem with us? Why do we run here and there?




There is something lurking within us, and telling us: "You are in danger."

That danger is not visible. It is not on the surface of our consciousness.

It has not come to the level of conscious thinking and, therefore, we are not frightened in our daily existence.

If it has the capacity or the intention to come to the surface of our consciousness – if all that is in store for us is to come to the surface of our consciousness just now – we will perish just this moment by the fear of it. Our heart will stop, and we will tremble and cease to be.



Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....



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