What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-12.

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



Part-12.


But we are living still; we are not dying at one stroke.

A very interesting statement of Buddha, among many other things that he said, is: "A person who really sees through the inner structure of this world will not be able to live here for three minutes."

And, in the same way, if we can see through the inner core of things, people, or anything in the world, we will not like to speak one word afterwards.

Our mouth will be shut forever, if we have seen to the root of things – whether of people, or of any other thing in the world.

The Buddha's statement followed:

"The world, to that person who sees the root of things, would appear like a burning pit of live coal."

Live coal means hot embers, fire blazing, and we cannot keep our foot on it even for a second. Patanjali also says in his Yoga Sutra:

"For an understanding mind, the whole world is misery incarnate."



Why is it so?

Why do we not feel like that?

Why should Patanjali say that, but we do not say that?

The reason is that our unconscious and subconscious levels are buried, for reasons we cannot easily explain now; and a little peak of the huge mountainous weight of our personality, in the form of a conscious mind, is what we call our present life.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....