Can You Attain Complete Spiritualism with the Help of Knowledge?
Man
deluded himself to believe that he was all-powerful. He began to reject the
presence of a superior power, the creator of this universe. Undoubtedly,
knowledge gives the feeling of strength and power. One can defeat a physically
stronger adversary who is ignorant by using his mental prowess and skill.
Ignorance is really a course. However, it is better to be ignorant, live in
bliss than boast because of a little knowledge, and make a fool of oneself.
Today,
everything is on the basis of knowledge. Man thinks that if you have knowledge,
you have power. It is on partially true. According to the religious scriptures,
knowledge lies within one’s self. Only
self-knowledge can give man the spirituality to withstand the vicissitudes of
life, without getting disturbed. Knowledge of the world of senses is only
superficial and tends to create waves of dissatisfaction, greed and lust only.
Any person who has realized that can certainly say with clam authority that
real knowledge comes from self-realization and generates power to take life
with all its joys and sorrows, vicissitudes, pleasures and pains.
It
cannot be denied that religious preachers and teachers have tried to exploit
the ignorant, underprivileged and the gullible due to their tall claims of
having a perfect understanding of scriptures. It was this gross misuse of
knowledge by the Brahmans, which provoked Lord Buddha and Lord Mahavira to
revolt against Hinduism, which had become too dogmatic and beyond the
comprehension of the layman.
However,
despite gaining all knowledge, not all things that happen on this earth are as
per man’s will. Nature still controls him – earth, droughts, floods, diseases,
etc. Nature has its own ways of restoring the balance to keep the wheels of the
universe going. Apart from that, man is
until at the mercy of his basic instincts. Not all his knowledge has helped him
to overcome his basic emotions of jealousy, hate, lust, greed, etc. Thus, he
behaves in a most irrational manner on many occasions. No wonder, the world is
divided into two power blocs and the people live in fear of another world war
as some people in power make moves as if they are just playing a game of chess.
They act most irresponsible.
Therefore,
in spite of man’s tall claims to knowledge, man still today remains a victim of
luck. Knowledge has certainly given him power but not the full power.
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