Jan’ 2016
The universal is not known until the visible world is cast asunder by the sharp edge of wisdom. From this knowledge there is no return. – B’Gita Ch: 15
Any statements and ideas held in memory, heard, read or seen, is not true knowing. Such knowledge is on the surface only. It is but a tangled web of information cluttering the mind; a stored and dark residue after its useful truth has been absorbed. The truth of eternal beauty made visible from moment to moment, ever fresh… ever new, as flowers in bloom, waves on the sea or snowflakes in winter. As useful as they may be, the residue of formative memories are for passing reference, and not for residence.
Anyone who has learned to ride a bicycle knows that the discovered knowledge of riding goes far beyond instruction and information about it. True knowledge goes beyond memory – it is knowing and permanent. Words may guide you, but they can’t go with you.
True knowledge is hidden behind a cloud of memories, above, beneath and beyond… eternal – unchangeable, waiting to be discovered. It is not held in memory which is at best an acquisition of ideas which we may call being ‘learned’. Understand the difference between learnedness and real knowledge. Understanding is not held in memory. True knowledge is knowing, understanding. It is direct, non-verbal. A degree in flight technology does not make you a pilot.
Understand one thing well leads to truth – B’Gita Ch: 7
Higher knowledge is of the root of all that is, the eternal and unmanifested. The being of being, where the source of all is known directly. Lower knowledge is of the eternal natural laws that govern all that appears to be. Men of true Spiritual and Physical science know this well.
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Before you can know anything directly, nonverbally, you must know the knower. So far you took the mind to be the knower, but it is just not so. The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in the mind. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge, ever fresh, new, wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being, there is no gap.
Knowledge sees all as one, Passion sees all as separate; Ignorance clings to one idea – B’Gita Ch: 18
You look around without understanding and take appearances for reality. Ignorance of reality is the cause of inevitability – ignorance of yourself, and the true nature of things, their causes and effects. You believe you know the world and yourself – but it is only in ignorance that makes you say: I know. Begin with the admission that you do not know and start from there. The very admission: ‘I am ignorant’ is the dawn of knowledge. An ignorant man is ignorant of his ignorance.
You can say that ignorance does not exist, for the moment it is seen it is no more. Therefore you may call it unconsciousness or blindness. Of all you see around and within, you know little and do not understand without even knowing that you do not know and do not understand.
You need not know all. It is enough to know what you need to know. At every moment you will know what you need to know for the next, the rest can look after itself without your knowing how it occurs. Just like a Satnav, you only need to know the next ten yards, any more is just noise. What is important is that your unconscious does not contest the conscious. In peace-of-mind there is integration on all levels.
To know is not so very important. To know that you do not know and do not understand is the doorway to true knowledge, the knowledge of a humble heart. The fact is that knowledge is of ignorance only. Know that you do not know as a thing is claimed to be known.
‘I am’ and ‘the world is’ are related and conditional. They are due to the tendency of the mind to project names and shapes. As a person, your existence is momentary. But are you a person only? Are you a person at all? Your very being is the only reality. The truth cannot be experienced as if something separate from you to be experienced. We are like a child that says: Prove the sugar is sweet, then only I shall have it. The proof of the sweetness is in the mouth, not in the sugar. To know it is sweet you must taste it, there is no other way. Then only all doubts dissolve and your knowledge becomes first hand and unshakable.
The truth will only be revealed one step at a time. It is like climbing a tree in the dark – you can get hold of the next branch only when you are perched on the previous one. In science it is called the experimental approach. To prove the theory you carry out an experiment according to the operational instructions left by those who have made the experiment before you. In the spiritual search the chain of experiments one has to carry out is called Yoga.
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He who understands gains wisdom – B’Gita Ch: 15
There is nothing that can help the world more than you putting an end to ignorance. Then you need not do anything in particular to help the world; your very being is a help, action or no action. Once you are inwardly integrated, outer knowledge comes to you spontaneously.
In awareness, at every moment of your life you know what you need to know. In the ocean of the universal, all knowledge is contained. It is as you are, and yours on demand. Most of it you may never need to know – but it is yours all the same.
Conscious awareness is power; awareness of what needs be done… will be done. ‘My Will be done’.
As with knowledge, so it is the power follows. Whatever you know to be done happens unfailingly. No doubt Nature, the right hand of the Universal, attends to the business of managing the universe, and with your help. When the helper is knowing and intelligent all the powers of the universe are there to command. Even the powers of nature for they are not blind to your presence.
He who sees non-action in action and action on non-action is wise – B’Gita Ch: 4
Be alert, quiet, and attentive. Once you discover and know your real nature your existence becomes a blessing to all, for that you are. You may not know, nor will the world know, yet the help radiates.
There are people in the world who do more good than all the statesmen and philanthropists put together. They radiate light and peace with no intention or knowledge. When others tell them about the miracles they worked, they also are wonderstruck. Yet, taking nothing as their own they are neither proud, nor do they crave for reputation. They are just unable to desire anything for themselves, nor the joy of helping others. Knowing that ‘ALL’ is good they are at peace.
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