“Tad uparagapeksitvac cittasya vastu jnatajnatam”
Tad uparagapeksitvac cittasya vastu jnatajnatam
If he knows, if he remembers the name he was taught about the flower, he feels now he knows it. For example you walk through a garden. You see a flower and you remember at the young age your school teacher taught this is rose. And you remember that name and associated that name with the flower you saw in front of you, associated that name to the flower. Immediately you think now you know the rose. But very, very foolish way - that just recollecting the name and connecting is knowing if you think, it is very foolish way.
I will describe vey detailed way what is knowing.
If you just know the name, an ordinary man feels he knows.
A person who thinks little deeper he thinks, if he knows the color, quality, some more characteristics of the flower, he thinks he knows it.
Only experts know the quality, chemistry, physiology all other components responsible for the flower happening, reason for its color, reason for its size, reason for its happening. Only we can say person who knows all these things is expert and as far as the expert is concerned he feels only if he knows all this he knows the flower.
But a ultimate knower, enlightened being, he thinks, only if he knows the consciousness on which the flower has happened, he knows it; till then he doesn’t know, understand.
Details
The talk
- Date
- 5 July 2011
- Place
- Raja Sabha, Bidadi ashram
- Language
- English
The recording
- Recording
- No recording linked to this transcript
- Duration
- 4 min
The transcript
- Status
- Live notes
- Time-synced
- Yes — 3 marks
- Length
- 239 words · 1 min read
- Topics
- None recorded
- Archive reference
- uni937