What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-20.

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


Part-20.

Thus, a humility born not of hypocrisy, but of a real acceptance of the fact of the mystery and the magnitude of things, is the first quality of a student; and a disciple, a sisya, a chela, a student, is therefore one who has completely handed himself or herself to the rescue of this reservoir of knowledge we call the teacher or the master.

But – I repeat what I told you a few minutes before – the egoism, born of an attitude compelled by the power of the sense organs which have a voice of their own, will prevent us from having this attitude of humility.

The egoism will persist.

We will have a self-importance of our own, and an ideology of our own, which we would not like to be refuted by anybody.

"What I think is right, and it must be right." With this attitude, no knowledge can be gained, because our basket is already full and nobody can fill it with anything else.

Nobody can fill us unless we have already emptied ourselves; a full basket cannot be filled with anything else.



Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....