What is Knowledge : Ch-1. Part-13.

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Ch-1. The Knowledge Situation.


Part-13.



What I tried to mention in these few words is that we have perhaps now come to a stage of our life where we have to think very seriously about things. We cannot merely take life as a kind of game where it is immaterial whether we lose or gain. It is not just a cricket, football or tennis game that we are playing when we are living in this world. There is a greater seriousness about it, and this seriousness has not always been felt by people.

Children that we are in the knowledge of the things of the world, we play like children only, and we are satisfied mostly with toys, which the world is ready to give us. The child may like different kinds of toys on different days; it doesn't want the same thing every day. And the world has plenty of toys.

It has been feeding people with these things, and the reaction of the human psyche to these provisions of the world is human history. We are now in one period of human history. The history of mankind, particularly, may be said to be the series of reactions humanity has set up in relation to the processes of nature with which mankind is intimately connected.

Natural history and human history go together. The evolutionary process of nature, and of our own personal life, is not like two different parallel rails in a railway line, not touching each other.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....


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