Dec. 24, 2002
(by Karmayogi)
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Knowledge is to
know – to know what we do not know.
Seeking is NOT to confirm what we already know.
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Seeking is
outside, for something we do not have.
Seeking is NOT in the past, unless it is for the essence.
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Now that the
20th century is over, is it not right for the world to standardise the QUEST?
Without such standarisation of norms, it is unconscious seeking, casual QUEST,
which will not be the right role of the QUEEN of knowledge.
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Most of the
quests, physical, social, etc. have some standards before them that are
generally acceptable, if not agreed upon and enforceable.
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Mental seeking should be rigorously logical and
reasonable.
Saying so, we should define
logic and reason and in practice enumerate what is NOT logic or reason.
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Science arose
with one significant aim of ousting superstition. A movement that is against an
ideal subconsciously becomes a victim to what it fights. To define
superstition, classify it into its varieties, and explain its origin
theoretically will offer us enough field of inquiry. Superstition is to
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believe what is
not a fact.
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take a sense
impression as a physical fact.
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accept a one
time experience as a valid fact forever.
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grant
credibility to social opinion.
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concede
scientific validity when an eminent person endorse an unproven fact.
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be illogical.
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be
unreasonable.
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validate the
rule of another plane in this plane.
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believe what
one likes.
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hesitate to
examine a proposition as rigorously as it requires.
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To grant practical value to a theoretical fact or theoretical
value to a practical occurrence is neither knowledge nor Science.
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Seeking should
be based on a philosophy that is valid.
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To insist that
Mind's perception is ultimate is to insist on partial knowledge. Partial knowledge or knowledge of the part
cannot claim to be pure knowledge or a valid one.
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Absence of
courage to adhere to KNOWLEDGE will inevitably lead to
superstition.
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Mind believing
the experience of the body is either ignorance or superstition.
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Mind that believes
its own clarity as a valid fact of life is in a world of illusion.
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Pleasant
experience is not a proven fact of practical or theoretical value.
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Validity,
scientific validity, valid knowledge:
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Man thinks with
his mind, feels with his senses, acts with his body, combines the thinking,
feeling and acting in his embodied being in a complete experience when he finds
it true and valid forever in his own experience as well as the experience of
others. Then he grants it the validity of
a Law, if it passes the tests of logic and reason.
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If satyagraha
had been successful from 1920 to 1947 and moved to the culmination of freedom,
it cannot claim the above validity. Success
alone does not qualify for validity.
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Skill for
scientific experiments, capacity for theorizing together or each by itself
should not or cannot make one a scientist or scientific worker. The
scientist should be incapable of being an evil personality in his consciousness
to qualify to be a scientist. Science, in the sense of knowledge that is
capable of action that is beneficial demands it.
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Not only should governments be prevented from making
weapons of mass destruction, the scientist should be someone incapable of
discovering or designing such weapons or their theory.
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Validity is for
knowledge that is LAW, not for the person, nor
the organisation, and not even for the society as a whole.
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Science should
search for a valid theory, valid philosophically before it can apply for its
own credentials.
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That body of knowledge which does not take its standing on such a
theoretically valid philosophy cannot pass for knowledge or scientific status.
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