Knowledge & Ignorance

It is important for us to understand what constitutes knowledge and what indeed is ignorance.  In today’s world the word knowledge is appropriated by the Information industry.  In their understanding it is defining human tasks, breaking it up into different functions and categories until the answer can be only be either ‘yes’ or ‘no’.  This is then translated by machine language into the binary system mapping answers onto the numeral switches ‘0’ or ‘1’ and creating a program such that the human interacts with the software in a language that he understands which can then be reduced into the binary language that the machine understands.  Thereafter the information is processed based on a knowledge bank which gives preferential answers based on data entered; or otherwise it gives out a database of information, requests for which are keyed into the computer. 

Queerly, this is a great parallel for accessing the universal knowledge that is in the ether – available to one and all.  The only difference is that there is no copyright for this universal knowledge.  And the software is not knowledge based – but Ignorance based! 

In life knowledge fills the gaps created by removing ignorance.  Ignorance is functioning in the universe without the awareness of the way the universe functions.   Most of our belief systems form the bulk of this body of information called ‘Ignorance’.   Belief systems arise from receiving blindly and believing blindly. 

The universe also responds in the binary system.  Your physical body operates in the binary system.  You either breathe in or breathe out.  The heart pumps in or pumps out.  Your pulsating layer has a natural rhythm to it which is in resonance with the universe when you are a child.  As you grow up, your habits and thoughts interfere with this natural rhythm and start creating aberrations.  You are no longer in sync with the universal rhythm.  You can no longer sleep like a baby! 

This estrangement continues to increase as you grow older, and to the extent to which your lifestyle is unnatural.  The more you disregard natural cycles like the sun-cycle and the moon-cycle, the more your bio-rhythm becomes out of step.  The more you are out of step the more it becomes your responsibility to sustain your bodily functions – and believe me, you do not want to be in that position!  The more in-sync you are with natural rhythms, the more nature takes care of your body. 

True knowledge is free and universal.  Only human ignorance is copyrighted!  This is the reason, many ancient poets and writers exclude their name or use a pen-name which expresses gratitude and identity with the universal.  That is the reason, one cannot flatter a jnani.  Because he knows that if you praise his words you are praising the timeless truths of the Universe and submits all praise at the sacred feet of that Holy Presence.  If you find that his words stem from ignorance, he is glad to accept his mistake, since he knows all Ignorance is Individual. 

Research has been done extensively in the field of kinesiology to show that the human body is home to the Universal knowledge bank.  You can attach sensors to a muscle fibre and monitor its response to an utterance.   True utterances indicate a positive response of your muscle fibre and Ignorant utterances release a negative response.  This is also the basis for the lie detector test. 

You can only lie to others, but never to yourself!

Therefore, it is well to be true to oneself and to others.  Only then can a bit of Ignorance be removed and we can get a glimpse of what it is to be one with the universe - and from this oneness shall knowledge flow through us - naturally and effortlessly.