{"id":244,"date":"2020-02-29T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=244"},"modified":"2020-02-29T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T15:56:28","slug":"you-sentenced-yourself-to-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"You sentenced yourself to Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Upanishads\ndeclare that \u201cknowledge\u201d is the default condition for who we are.\n Any ignorance then is a function of us inviting that into our lives.\n This article deals with how we create ignorance and how to come out\nof such self-created ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n

Pure Science<\/h2>\n\n\n

The\n8th<\/sup>\nverse of the Isavasya Upanishad states that we are devoid of the dirt\nof ignorance. Know that Upanishads know us more than we know\nourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n

What needs to be done?<\/h2>\n\n\n

You\nare devoid of dirt of ignorance. But if you think that you are still\nignorant in some space, somewhere, in something, if you say, \u2018I\ndon\u2019t know about that,\u2019 then you need to get to the bottom of\nwhen you started uttering, \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019, when you started\ndeclaring ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n

When did I declare ignorance?<\/h2>\n\n\n

Ignorance\nis declared first time in you when you do not want to know, not when\nyou don\u2019t know. When you declared \u2014 \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019 \u2013\nfirst time in your life, you will see all those moments will be your\nconscious choice of:<\/p>\n\n\n

  1. \nI\n\tdo not want to know\n\t<\/li>
  2. \nKnowing\n\tfeels like, \u2018Oh! So much work,\u2019\n\t<\/li>
  3. \nYou\n\thate knowing subtly\n\t<\/li>
  4. \nYou\n\tmight be feeling that you are being used\n\t<\/li>
  5. \nWhy\n\tshould I know so much?\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

    These\nstatements infuse stupidity in you.<\/p>\n\n\n

    What are the pitfalls?<\/h2>\n\n\n
    1. \nKnowledge\n\tis a knowledge is a knowledge. Being active is being active is being\n\tactive. Knowledge and action should not be judged, scaled, measured\n\tbased on the returns, income or luxury or comfort, it is expected to\n\tbring.\n\t<\/li>
    2. \nWealth\n\tcan always be achieved by knowledge, nothing wrong. But if just\n\twealth becomes the goal of your knowledge, there stops your\n\tknowledge and ignorance starts.\n\t<\/li>
    3. \nBy\n\tbeing active, acquiring wealth and luxury is not wrong, but that\n\talone should not be your goal. Then, the moment you have your basic\n\tneeds or wealth or luxury, you will just become inactive.\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

      How to undo what I have done?<\/h2>\n\n\n
      1. \nDo the ground work\n\t
        1. \nSeek\n\t\tthe atmosphere where constantly your ignorance and inefficiency,\n\t\ttiredness, boredom is challenged. Don\u2019t live where your\n\t\tignorance is not challenged.\n\t\t<\/li>
        2. \nKnowledge\n\t\tshould be for the sake of more knowledge. Work should be for the\n\t\tsake of more work. Work to get more work. Have knowledge to have\n\t\tmore knowledge.\n\t\t<\/li>
        3. \nConstantly\n\t\texploring knowledge! Knowledge itself is the taste, joy,\n\t\texcitement, experience. Only that person becomes the embodiment of\n\t\tSaraswati, Maha Saraswati.\n\t\t<\/li>
        4. \nBe\n\t\tactive just to be more active.\n\t<\/li><\/ol>\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

          \nKnowledge\nand being active makes you LIVING. That is the one of the biggest\npleasures. This pleasure is thousands of times more than any romance\nor luxury can give you.<\/p>\n\n\n

          1. \nComplete\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

            \nYES\nto the ignorance is not by anybody else, it is by YOU. Go back and\nsee when was the first time, you said \u201cYES\u201d to ignorance. Dig\nout patterns you started developing when you said YES to ignorance.\nComplete with them and break those patterns. Suddenly you will see,\nit is not that you will know only what you studied, read. No.\nSuddenly multiple dimensions you will be made known to you.<\/p>\n\n\n

            \nKnowledge\nis never linear. When you say YES to knowledge, you just break the\nignorance, which is linear. Ignorance is linear, knowledge is always\nexponential and infinite. It is just multi-dimensional.<\/p>\n\n\n

            1. \nDecide\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

              \nYour\ndecision brought you ignorance, laziness and boredom. Your simple\ndecision will bring knowledge, make you active and excited.\n<\/p>\n\n\n

              \nIf\nyou have become ignorant, just know out of which decision you became\nignorant. If you undo that, that is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n

              1. \nRealize\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

                \nYou\nare ever pure space devoid of the dirt of ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n

                Based on satsangs delivered by rare Living Incarnation Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam<\/p>\n\n\n

                \nhttp:\/\/nithyananda.org\/video\/say-yes-knowledge\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n
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