Not knowing

I know, that I know nothing – Socrates.

Not knowing, one knows, is best – Lao Tse.

Indeed very true statements. These two people are great philosopher. Lao Tse is the central figure of Tao. He was born old. 60 year old. He born with white beard. That shows his wisdom. He got sudden englightenment. He was sitting under a tree. A dry leaf fell out of the tree. Lao tse saw that and went into samadhi. He understood that life is nothing more than this dry leaf. One day this life will fall like this dry leaf. That was enough for him. It may not be enough for us. But it was enough for him. His consciousness was more mature. Was already at peak. We also see dry leaves but nothing happens to us. Because, our consciousness is dormant. We have tendency of neglecting the things. Postponing the things. So, it get acumulated. And one day it burst into infinite sorrow - death. Death is the biggest taboo in this world. It is made like that. I will talk on this some time later. We talk everything except death. The similar thing happened with Buddha also. He saw a diseased person, he became unhappy. He saw a corpse, he understood. We also saw some corpse, but we just neglect them assuming nothing gonna happen and everything will be fine as always :) People say be positive. But, this is half story. It should be - be positive without neglecting the reality.

See, everything has a context. We live in a practical world. The ideal world is different. Above two quotes are valid in the ideal world. If you apply them in the practical world, you would be in the trouble. Most of the people live in the practical world. Again there are reason behind this. I will cover this in future post. So you follow the rules of practical world. Above quotes are true in the ideal world. For example - If you need to appear for an interview, and there you say I know, that I know nothing. The word need is the key here. Think on it. You would be rejected at the first place. You are telling write but, you are telling at the wrong place - in an interview. So try to understand the context. Lao tse always lived in the ideal world. He can say that. But you cannot. You are part of a practical system. Lao tse was not part of any system. He created a system - Tao. In which others take part. He saw what he wanted to see. You are seeing what you are shown. He was a master, you are a slave. So your context is different than Lao Tse. So, don't copy Lao Tso in the practical world. You will be in sheer trouble.

I do not condemn any world - ideal or practical. Both world are contextually important. The moment you say I know something. That means your brain has gather some information. Some chemical reaction happened in your brain. Neurons adjusted themselves to hold that information. But how does it affect to totality? It doesn't. Remember all these ideology are made keeping totality into mind. And totality is always unaffected. If you can alter totality that means it was not total. There is no scope of altering the totality. It is complete. Problem come when you try to alter the totality out of your knowledge. That boosts up your ego. Ego of knowing. I know this, I know that. I am engg, I am MBA. These are all ego. Our education system simply boosts up our ego. The more higher degree you get the more egoistic you are. Lao Tso did not have formal education. In fact no prophets have formal education. That's one of the vital reason they could grow so much. So, they saw what they wanted to see. In our education system we are shown what society wants us to see. Remember your society will never like you to see what you want to see. Society will always impose their ideology on you. A formal education has an upper limit of growth. Because society imparts formal education. So, society will never like you to be bigger than soceity. Society creates you. And creater is always bigger. Therefore you cannot be bigger than society. Hence, society imposes an upper limit of growth on you. Self-education has no limit. It can reach upto infinite. It may not affect the entire society. Because society has its own intertia. A huge inertia. That's why none of the prophets could affect entire human civilization. They touched a large mass. That's true. But not the entire humanity. That's one of the reason we have so many religions. Because, the society has its own intertia. Your self realization needs that much momentum to overcome that intertia. Which no prohets could do. And its difficult also. Because, there are many great men. So, they collide. Ego start forming new form. A subtler ego. But still ego. I would say it's ego of society. Not of a person. Ego of two society collide. And separate religions are created. Becuase society is always worried of it's existence. They need some superhuman to protect their existence. So, they made their local great men as ideology. And they move forward. So different religions are creation of society. For example - there was no Buddhism at the time of Buddha. Budhism was created by the soceity after buddha left his body.