What is Knowledge : Ch-2. Part-13.

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


Part-13.



Whatever we are thinking, feeling, seeing and reacting to now is this little peak.

This fact is well known to psychologists and psychoanalysts.

Our whole personality is a tremendous iceberg which is buried in the ocean of the unconscious, and little of it is on the surface, and so we say we are 'this', we are 'that'. But the total weight of our personality, which is the cause of what we are going to be, will not manifest itself under unfavourable circumstances.

Like a seed that is sown on the ground which will sprout only under given conditions and not always, our total personality will not come to the surface of our experience, except under given conditions.

All the necessary accompaniments for the coming up of this inner buried treasure should be there. Otherwise, it will lie like a coiled-up serpent. Only if we interfere with it, will it come up.




Now, incidentally, by way of digression, I may tell you that in our yoga practice or in our meditation, we are actually interfering with this coiled-up serpent inside.

This is our kundalini, which is very much spoken of by people. Immediately the snake will open its hood when we touch it.

We will not know what we are unless we probe into these depths of our own being. Sometimes our depths come out when we are opposed, insulted, or kicked out.

When we are praised, garlanded and respectably treated, we cannot know what we are.

We must be kicked out of the world, spat at, and live like an unknown, unwanted nobody; then the unconscious will come up.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued   ....