Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper.
The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit for the impersonal knowledge.
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.