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Knowledge, an objective concept, a virtue in itself, well reasoned out, binding and true for all men. Which differs man to man, group to group, and region to region, isn’t a true knowledge; nevertheless, a sense perception which has vague assumptions and untested beliefs.

Knowledge is universal; it can’t be true for someone and false for other one. Which doesn’t come on reasons, isn’t the knowledge.

Reason is a tool to settle what knowledge is and what is not. Reasons objectify knowledge that turns in concepts. Knowledge can be understood and can be taught.

Isn’t the definition of knowledge looks interesting? Unfortunately, most of us never reason out the things, and remain far away from the truth. Probably, we do fear!

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They miss knowledge in their life, so, unfortunately are committed to wrong doings. A man having knowledge, infallibly, does what is right.

Now, you might wonder that you know lot of people who have great knowledge and still they are involved in wrong doings. Or, you know lot of good things but fall to what is not suitable to you. Don’t you think this is self deception, rather than knowledge?

Knowledge is what, which goes direct into your blood, veins…DNAs, and without a hitch you become that.

If you repeat anything to convince yourself again and again, then, it is not knowledge – it is parroting. And, superficial things never work in life, it only produces hypocrites. The knowledge comes when we understand it; infallibly, agree to it, and have unflinching faith in it. Then, this knowledge helps us to do what is right.

They talked about ethical knowledge; both of them brushed aside other things. As the subjects like mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, cosmology, medicines and other sciences are nothing to do with improving upon a man’s character and getting truth of life. Though, they help in making better living conditions and to earn money.

When the Greek was plunging into complexities of vague knowledge, Socrates talked about just ethical knowledge, and whole life he insisted upon this.

Krishna said, apart from ethical knowledge, others are ignorance; he gave a list of what comes in ethical knowledge.

The attraction of non-ethical things is too much; we often forget what Sages have told us. Not only these two, but each Sage would say "Ethics make the life worthwhile."

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There are two worlds; external world, everyone knows and lives in it. But, the sages know the second world, which is as important as the external world is. Sages are comfortable in both the worlds; that’s why they are the sages. Do you know the second world?

A baby is born, he opens his eyes, cries and laughs … sucks milk and has potties. He is introduced with the external world, where hugging and caring of parents and uncle & aunt since the beginning of his birth make him realize that the external world is real. He grows and for him, external world is everything.

And, this external world becomes the priority of his life, coz since his birth; he is most familiar with this external world.

But his own world that is mental world remains in shadow, unsolved, un-inquired … having mix expressions of fear, anxiety, love, hate and various complexities, and ups and downs of life – which all are stored since when he came out from his mother’s womb, and grew among people in different-different circumstances.

For some people this mental world remain unexplored, they remain the sheep – the whole life. They neglect their mental world, therefore, themselves. They think external world is only the reality, and the truth of their life.

But, the few get their “lost world.”

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A thought doesn’t have any power in itself. Your beliefs, your faiths in the thoughts make them powerful – and thoughts become the things. And, your consciousness becomes conditioned; therefore, a mind comes in existence. Mind is just a phenomenon of the conditioned consciousness. Un-condition … un-clutch yourself from all the positive and negative beliefs, then mind will disappear and Buddhahood will appear.

A thought, that is powerful to you, may be powerless to others – all depend upon how each one of us has beliefs and faiths in the thoughts. But, each one of us is neither the beliefs nor the thoughts, isn’t it? Because, we have the capability to remove or attach beliefs to any thought.

Then, who we are?

Can you claim your Buddhahood? Now!

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These animals are those, who do all sorts of crime at physical, emotional and mental level – without a thought, what will happen to others (and to them also). The scale between a human and an animal varies, some are 80% animals and some are 60% humans. And, some unfortunately cross all the scale of animalistic acts.

The factor that drives a person either to be human or an animal is worth considering. This factor is the connection between the body and spirit (Atman). The wider the connection it would be, more human a person is bound to turn, because he would live in spirit consciousness. If this connection is “0″ the person would live more in body consciousness, and would run after body related things.

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If yes, just hold onto that which is making you pissing off; don’t try to forget that trigger that causes you to be pissed off. Because if you forget that trigger somehow, again, this trigger will catch you with your feet and throw you against the wall and you will become the creature of conditional reflexes.

Break this programming

Whatever you experience through your emotions, feeling, thinking – you are not that. Because you know them, and knower is different from the known. All the experiences exist in duality; one side you, the subject that witnesses everything. And, the other side the objects: your feelings, emotions and memory. Without the subject to know the objects is impossible. If you understand the difference between the subject and object, you can break this programming to be pissed off.

This way

Become the subject. And then invite all the “triggers” that used to cause you to be pissed off, and watch whatever happens to the objects. Do it with all the triggers, and watch the object from start to finish. You will find that the objects are the transient, they come and go, and the subject remains unmoved, unchanged in the background, witnessing everything. The subject is like the ocean; the objects are like the waves, those appear and disappear. The subject is like the sky; the objects are like the clouds. When you understand that the objects are like the clouds and waves, totally different from you. You break this conditioning. Even if, somehow the waves arise, you remain unchanged in your subjectivity.

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You throw them, they come again; you give them to someone, they bounce back. The more you think about them, more they stick with you. And, your promises and affirmations to yourself go waste. You lose!

Your identification with the limitations and weaknesses is the problem. Actually, they never existed. You believed in some illusion and a Ghost appeared in front of you.

Whatever you can objectify, it isn’t you. Guru repeats, “Whatever you can objectify, it isn’t you.” The moment you objectify your limitations and weaknesses, they become separate from you. Now, you just need to think about this separation; that’s all. The game is finished! Don’t stress about your limitations and weakness, just widen this separation. Remember, you are not that; only thing happened was just – you forgot the separation. Widen the separation and enjoy your real essence. They moment you will separate them, they will disappear.

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You can know things only in duality. Isn’t it (think upon it)? As soon as you say, “I’m this,” or “This is mine,” or “This is my experience,” you start objectifying and only in duality you can objectify something.

You can only know “What you aren’t,” but you can never know “What you are!” This is important (very!) to understand. Subject can know only to objects, whatever you know it becomes the object: your mind, your thoughts, your emotions, your feelings, your love, your hate, your actions… body, memory, etc., all are objects. You are none of them. You are the subject, witnessing everything. And, to remain fixed forever in this subjectivity is called – Self realization.

If you say, you know yourself; you are putting yourself in illusion, in the projections of the mind. You are neither the mind nor its projections. Wake up!

The best is to replace uncontrolled thoughts with real thoughts of life and let the real thoughts be uncontrolled. These real thoughts will give birth to self inquiry … to Gnana Yoga, the greatest spiritual path.

What are real thoughts?

They are the thoughts which connect you to your source, which make you calmer, cooler and aware … which make you natural and happy … and later on they themselves turn in thoughtlessness. Real thoughts are like: "Who am I?" "From where I’ve come from?" "What is the purpose of my life?" … like that.

When you start indulging in real thoughts, effortlessly, you fall back to your own source, the source from where all the thoughts come – and feel the peace of mind. You just need to contemplate (seriously) to the "real thoughts" of life, and eventually they will throw you at your own source, from where all the thoughts arise but there is thoughtlessness.