BEYOND JNANA

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

 

 

M.--"Do you know the definition of Jnana?

 

The definition of Jnana is to know that God is beyond Jnana, that He cannot be

 

known.

 

God appears as Jnana itself before him who knows this perfectly.

 

He cannot be known by the will of him who wants to know Him.

 

He is known only to those whom he wills to be known. This is Jnana.

 

 

 

When the human effort has failed there is disappointment.

 

I have not been able to know Him, he is beyond me--the highest stage of this

 

non-knowing is knowledge, Jnana.

 

In this state one's mind doubtlessly realizes that without His will he cannot be

 

known. This is the state of Jnana. No doubt this is the path of 'neti-neti'

(not this,

 

not this)--the negative definition.

 

 

 

So it was that the Delphic Oracle said: 'Socrates is the only one wise man

(Jnani)

 

in Greece.' Hearing this Socrates reflected deeply in a solitary corner : 'Why

was I

 

called a wise man?' After thinking for many days, he arrived at this conclusion

:

 

'O, I know it now, because I know nothing. That's why I am called a Jnani'."

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

 

(M.-THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST. Vol. VII., pp. 74-5)

 

 

 

M.--"Thakur used to say, 'Knowing God, only, is Knowledge, that knowing anything

 

else is non-knowledge'. The Vedas say : 'He who thinks that he knows all,

 

knows nothing at all."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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