"I know nothing".
___________________
She posted her status-update on her Facebook page.
An intelligent observation though, usually people tend to take this as a routine and careless remark only. But as she is my friend on Facebook since long, I took this occasion to suggest to her the deeper implications of this statement.
"One who says :
"I know nothing"
may be or may not be aware of the deeper implicit meaning of this.
But no doubt, it requires and should be seriously and keenly noted by the one who utters this sentence.
One thing can be pointed out that one who says so, though know may know nothing of this world which he / she shares with other things and people, it is also absolutely true at the same time that he / she is aware of his / her own existence. And paying a bit more attention, he / she can be convinced of the truth that this awareness of oneself is basically non-verbal and without words that all worldly knowledge / information consists of.
Let us see what the worldly knowledge is made of.
Is it not only the memory of words and images that mind has learned to create and associate with various experiences one comes across everyday and moment to moment life?
Could we think self-awareness is of the form of this information / knowledge which causes, builds up and is maintained, even preserved as 'memory' in the brain?
Of course, there is also 'memory' in terms of emotions and sentiments associated with the heart, rather than with the brain, that too is a result of 'feelings' translated into and named as good or bad, pleasant, unpleasant or mixed-up.
Yet no doubt the 'self' that is formed out of 'memory' is quite different a phenomenon then the 'Self' that stays silent and is instinctively aware of itself.
This is not an action on the part of 'Self', it is rather the very 'nature' of the 'Self' where this 'knowing' and 'being' are but two aspects of the one and the same indivisible and individual existence.
And this is quite obvious that this 'Self' proclaims and asserts this truth when one says :
"I know nothing."
This exclamation is possible and valid only if one knows oneself.
Usually dealing with the worldly knowledge, we just forget the worldly knowledge is based upon 'one who knows', 'what is known' and the 'object of knowledge'.
While such a tried can never exist in
"awareness of the 'Self'..."
And neither it is needed.
So one falls a pray to the illusion that one can some day have
"Enlightenment"
of the Truth of the 'Self'....
So long as this illusion persists, one moves in a groove of ignorance only.
--
___________________
She posted her status-update on her Facebook page.
An intelligent observation though, usually people tend to take this as a routine and careless remark only. But as she is my friend on Facebook since long, I took this occasion to suggest to her the deeper implications of this statement.
"One who says :
"I know nothing"
may be or may not be aware of the deeper implicit meaning of this.
But no doubt, it requires and should be seriously and keenly noted by the one who utters this sentence.
One thing can be pointed out that one who says so, though know may know nothing of this world which he / she shares with other things and people, it is also absolutely true at the same time that he / she is aware of his / her own existence. And paying a bit more attention, he / she can be convinced of the truth that this awareness of oneself is basically non-verbal and without words that all worldly knowledge / information consists of.
Let us see what the worldly knowledge is made of.
Is it not only the memory of words and images that mind has learned to create and associate with various experiences one comes across everyday and moment to moment life?
Could we think self-awareness is of the form of this information / knowledge which causes, builds up and is maintained, even preserved as 'memory' in the brain?
Of course, there is also 'memory' in terms of emotions and sentiments associated with the heart, rather than with the brain, that too is a result of 'feelings' translated into and named as good or bad, pleasant, unpleasant or mixed-up.
Yet no doubt the 'self' that is formed out of 'memory' is quite different a phenomenon then the 'Self' that stays silent and is instinctively aware of itself.
This is not an action on the part of 'Self', it is rather the very 'nature' of the 'Self' where this 'knowing' and 'being' are but two aspects of the one and the same indivisible and individual existence.
And this is quite obvious that this 'Self' proclaims and asserts this truth when one says :
"I know nothing."
This exclamation is possible and valid only if one knows oneself.
Usually dealing with the worldly knowledge, we just forget the worldly knowledge is based upon 'one who knows', 'what is known' and the 'object of knowledge'.
While such a tried can never exist in
"awareness of the 'Self'..."
And neither it is needed.
So one falls a pray to the illusion that one can some day have
"Enlightenment"
of the Truth of the 'Self'....
So long as this illusion persists, one moves in a groove of ignorance only.
--
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