Guest guest Posted January 24, 2002 Report Share Posted January 24, 2002 Dear Friends, I have a doubt on knowledge. Swami Vivekananda, in one of his lectures, clearly distinguish between knowledge and intelligence. He says Knowledge is nothing but the bundle of expericences whereas intelligence means power of discriminataion and memory (of course, it also includes power of concentration). Knowledge, I mean, in every field covering science, engineering to sprituality. If that is so, a self realised person should be termed as truly knowledgeble or intelligent as he/she is suppossed to know everything. I will be glad if my doubt is clarified by our group. Thanking you. Sincerely, Karthikeyan On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 Vivekananda Centre wrote : > > - > Kkusum Bose > hindu > Cc: phoebesmile > Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:34 > Bhagvad-gita > > > To who this may consern > > My name is Vidika Kumar, and I am a collage student in > Denmark, and it's my last year in collage. I am doing a > project on Hinduism and need help. My problem is, that > I do not understand Lord Krishnas point on Moksh? What > does he mean by using Bhakti and you will get Moksh? It > is a bit confusing for me. I hope You can help me. It > would mean allot to me. > > My email address is: phoebesmile > > Best regards from > Vidika Kumar > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~response~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dear Vidika > > Your question is interesting - we will forward it to > our list. Some members > will respond to your question directly or via the list. > We have a small site > on the Bhagavad Gita designed for Secondary school > children learning > about Hinduism. These sites may give you some > answers:- > Gita site http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/gita.h- > tm > Hinduism for Schools site http://www.hinduism.fsnet.co.- > uk > > regards > dilip > Vivekananda Centre London > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2002 Report Share Posted January 24, 2002 Hi Karthikeyan - Yes. You replied to your question in your question itself. Self realized person can understand anything and everything without any intelligence. To realize oneself does not need any intelligence... Nothing is hidden from a true Self realized person because he is the one who exactly knows the true nature of this illusive cosmic dream world created by the god. Hope this helps a bit ... Regards. SRK Child. - Karthikeyan C S list Cc: Vivekananda Centre ; phoebesmile ; viv list ; Self Knowledge List Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:50 PM Re: [sri Ramakrishna] Fw: Bhagvad-gita Dear Friends, I have a doubt on knowledge. Swami Vivekananda, in one of his lectures, clearly distinguish between knowledge and intelligence. He says Knowledge is nothing but the bundle of expericences whereas intelligence means power of discriminataion and memory (of course, it also includes power of concentration). Knowledge, I mean, in every field covering science, engineering to sprituality. If that is so, a self realised person should be termed as truly knowledgeble or intelligent as he/she is suppossed to know everything. I will be glad if my doubt is clarified by our group. Thanking you. Sincerely, Karthikeyan On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 Vivekananda Centre wrote : > > - > Kkusum Bose > hindu > Cc: phoebesmile > Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:34 > Bhagvad-gita > > > To who this may consern > > My name is Vidika Kumar, and I am a collage student in > Denmark, and it's my last year in collage. I am doing a > project on Hinduism and need help. My problem is, that > I do not understand Lord Krishnas point on Moksh? What > does he mean by using Bhakti and you will get Moksh? It > is a bit confusing for me. I hope You can help me. It > would mean allot to me. > > My email address is: phoebesmile > > Best regards from > Vidika Kumar > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~response~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dear Vidika > > Your question is interesting - we will forward it to > our list. Some members > will respond to your question directly or via the list. > We have a small site > on the Bhagavad Gita designed for Secondary school > children learning > about Hinduism. These sites may give you some > answers:- > Gita site http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/gita.h- > tm > Hinduism for Schools site http://www.hinduism.fsnet.co.- > uk > > regards > dilip > Vivekananda Centre London > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2002 Report Share Posted January 24, 2002 Namaste, It would be more accurate to say that the quality and subtlety of understanding are quite different for the 'knowledge' of the Self [paraa- or adhyaatma- vidyaa] and for knowledge of the material world [aparaa-vidyaa]. Even in the latter, there are degrees of 'intelligence'. Two of the most famous instances recorded are those of Latu Maharaj [sw. V. called him Thakurji's greatest 'miracle'], and Shankaracharya's disciple Hastamalaka. Material knowledge seeks 'facts' ; eg. sunrise and sunset will occur at certain times at certain positions on earth. It requires more subtle knowledge to infer that the earth moves on its own axis, and around the sun. The Self-realised persons enjoy the infite bliss - the essence - of all existence, compared to that infinitesimal joy of a scientist's discovery of a 'law'. Regards, Sunder Ramakrishna, " SRK Child " <srkchild> wrote: > Hi Karthikeyan - > > Yes. You replied to your question in your question itself. > > Self realized person can understand anything and everything without any intelligence. To realize oneself does not need any intelligence... > > Nothing is hidden from a true Self realized person because he is the one who exactly knows the true nature of this illusive cosmic dream world created by the god. > > Hope this helps a bit ... > > Regards. > > SRK Child. > - > Karthikeyan C S > list > Cc: Vivekananda Centre ; phoebesmile@h... ; viv list ; Self Knowledge List > Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:50 PM > Re: [sri Ramakrishna] Fw: Bhagvad-gita > > > > Dear Friends, > I have a doubt on knowledge. > Swami Vivekananda, in one of his lectures, clearly distinguish between knowledge and intelligence. > He says Knowledge is nothing but the bundle of expericences whereas intelligence means power of discriminataion and memory (of course, it also includes power of concentration). > Knowledge, I mean, in every field covering science, engineering to sprituality. > If that is so, a self realised person should be termed as truly knowledgeble or intelligent as he/she is suppossed to know everything. > > I will be glad if my doubt is clarified by our group. > > Thanking you. > > Sincerely, > Karthikeyan > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 Vivekananda Centre wrote : > > > > - > > Kkusum Bose > > hindu@b... > > Cc: phoebesmile@h... > > Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:34 > > Bhagvad-gita > > > > > > To who this may consern > > > > My name is Vidika Kumar, and I am a collage student in > > Denmark, and it's my last year in collage. I am doing a > > project on Hinduism and need help. My problem is, that > > I do not understand Lord Krishnas point on Moksh? What > > does he mean by using Bhakti and you will get Moksh? It > > is a bit confusing for me. I hope You can help me. It > > would mean allot to me. > > > > My email address is: phoebesmile@h... > > > > Best regards from > > Vidika Kumar > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~response~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > Dear Vidika > > > > Your question is interesting - we will forward it to > > our list. Some members > > will respond to your question directly or via the list. > > We have a small site > > on the Bhagavad Gita designed for Secondary school > > children learning > > about Hinduism. These sites may give you some > > answers:- > > Gita site http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/gita.h- > > tm > > Hinduism for Schools site http://www.hinduism.fsnet.co.- > > uk > > > > regards > > dilip > > Vivekananda Centre London > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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