What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-8.

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


Part-8.


There are many other ideologies which impress upon the mind of a small child, and we must remember that although we are now sufficiently grown up, the impressions created on our mind during childhood are still there.

They have not gone, and they cannot easily go.

These impressions are also caused by the ideologies which the society in which we live holds as pre-eminent.

There are cults, creeds, beliefs, religious traditions, rituals, ideas of 'God', ideas of 'no God', and many other things such as even a sociological or political interpretation of life – all which cannot be kept completely outside the area of receptivity of small children.

Thus from childhood we are brainwashed in some way by these facts, and this cannot be overlooked in an educational process.



Some of you told me, "I cannot understand anything."

It is not your fault that you do not understand anything.

Nobody can say that you are bad people; there is no such thing as that.

It is a peculiar arrangement of your thoughts, feelings and outlook of life, what you have seen and studied earlier, and also the opinion in general that you are holding in your minds, all which have weighed heavily on your heads in such a manner that you are inseparable from this opinion and outlook that you are holding.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....




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