What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-22.

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


Part-22.



Now, these are the little things that we would like to consider if life is serious for us.

But we feel that life is not a serious thing, that it is only a joke, a play, a game, and it can be lived in any way one likes.

"Today I live it in this way, tomorrow I can live in another way. Who is to question me?  I am my own master."

 If we are our own master, and nobody can question us, and we know all things, then the world will teach us a lesson that this is not expected of us in the atmosphere of our real relationship with the world, and the world gives a kick.

This kick everyone receives – sometimes late in life, sometimes every day in life.



We receive various types of kicks, due to which we are placed in a condition of utter sorrow.

We are grief-stricken because we are defeated in life.

We have understood nothing, and we have gained nothing.

Yet, we have to live.

We cannot end our life; that permission is not granted to us.

So, life becomes a vale of tears.

It becomes a bundle of sorrows and griefs.

 At least if we realise that the situation has arisen on account of our not knowing things properly, and there is no point in our asserting ourselves anymore, then we have become real disciples and real students.



Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....



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