What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-17

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


Part-17.




Now, to imagine that the world is made in some way, and we understand it in some way and, therefore, it should be only that way and nothing else is permitted, is to succumb to the pressure of this deeper unconscious level of ours – which presents only one particular picture at a moment, and other pictures are withdrawn.

It will not show us the entire picture of the world at any time and, therefore, we find that it is not easy for us to learn the highest truths of life or the deeper secrets of nature unless we place ourselves under the complete control, care and protection of someone who, like a good doctor or a physician, knows the student or the disciple not merely as he or she appears outside, but as the student is inside.




Often we think that we ourselves are the master.

A patient cannot treat himself.

Otherwise, why should we have hospitals, doctors?

Let each one treat himself.

This is not possible, because we cannot know the causative factors of the phenomena appearing outside – either as illness, or as unhappiness.

Neither can one know why one is really ill, nor can one know why one is unhappy.

It is not easy to know the reason.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....