Socrates said, ”I don’t know,” at the very last moment of his life. His whole life he was teaching the truth, and at the last moment he said, ”I don’t know.” At the last moment he becomes really humble, and he sees the greatness of truth and its miraculousness, its inexpressibility – and that what he had been doing was just playing with words all his life. Now, no more; he is going to die within a few minutes. The poison is being prepared. At least the world should know that Socrates, before dying, uttered his honest answer, ”I don’t know. I don’t know anything about anything. I am just as innocent and ignorant as a child.”
But this is the highest peak of wisdom. When you don’t know, the mind is empty, you have arrived at the empty heart. When you know, the mind is full. Knowledge is the greatest barrier in reaching to the universal, to the immortal, to the eternal truth. Knowledge is the greatest barrier, which is preventing you from recognizing your nature.
Socrates' statement ”I don’t know,” at the eleventh hour of his life is the Ultimate Knowledge and truth which every rational and Spiritual human Being must know if there is any atom of desire in the heart to know who God is and How can we attain Him. In spite of his death in a few moments with poison - before quitting this mundane world - he uttered his honest and innocent answer, ”I don’t know. I don’t know anything about anything. I am just as innocent and ignorant as a child.”
ReplyDeleteHere we need to ponder over very intensely as why such a pundit - both theoretically and practically - rejected himself as a ignorant and unwise person at the final hours of the life regardless of reaching such a highest peak of wisdom.
It is really worth contemplating that when we don’t know, the mind remains spacious, we feel space in the heart. Knowing means burden in the mind and heart. That's why the statement of Socarates "Knowledge is the greatest barrier in reaching to the universal, to the immortal, to the eternal truth. Knowledge is the greatest barrier, which is preventing us from recognizing your nature." is the Absolute Knowledge - knowing and realizing which we can receive the full Grace of Lord.
Jai Shree Radhey !
Absolutely correct! like Jagadguruttam Shree Kripaluji Maharaj always uses to say,"what progress you can conduct if God wouldn't introduce you to a truly God realized saint. After that also no one can progress in the spiritual path if he doesn't surrender his intellect before his Guru." As practically God realized saint,H.H Swami Shree Mukundanandaji Maharaj recently quoted "When we make our intellect the basis of our knowledge, like the frog in the well, we get restricted to our limited intellectual experience. But when, with humility, we surrender our intellect before God, Guru and scriptures, we transcend its tiny reach to understand the Infinite. God is understood not by intellectual prowess, but by His Grace, which we attract by practicing humbleness, devotion and service."
ReplyDeleteSo it is an intelligent determination to surrender one's intellect before his Guru only, practicing humbleness and conducting selfless service; as both God & the ocean full of scriptural wisdom resides within him.
MARVELOUS....In humbleness; from "I KNOW",we have to reach "I DONT KNOW"....we have to surrender ourselves, our mind, body and heart in the lotus feet of our beloved guru..BHAKTI YOG RASAVTAR JAGADGURU SHRI KRIPALU JI MAHARAJ....jai jai albeli sarkar ki...
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