One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
Scholars who incessantly contemplate on acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.
One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?
