Dec. 24, 2002
v Knowledge is to know – to
know what we do not know.
Seeking is NOT to confirm what we already know.
v Seeking is outside, for
something we do not have.
Seeking is NOT in the past, unless it is for the essence.
v 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.
v Most of the quests,
physical, social, etc. have some standards before them that are generally
acceptable, if not agreed upon and enforceable.
v 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.
v 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.
v To grant practical value to a theoretical fact or theoretical value to
a practical occurrence is neither knowledge nor Science.
v Seeking should be based on a
philosophy that is valid.
v 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.
v Absence of courage to adhere
to KNOWLEDGE will inevitably lead to superstition.
v Mind believing the
experience of the body is either ignorance or superstition.
v Mind that believes its own
clarity as a valid fact of life is in a world of illusion.
v Pleasant experience is not a
proven fact of practical or theoretical value.
v 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.