114. Knowledge and Reality

Knowledge is a set of ideas, passed on by human species, over the past, as if that this species, is knowledgeable.  All species have knowledge of survival. But human species, living in groups, need to do more than that, as if they were the most intelligent of all species on this universe. And so the game of duality is passed on, to make 'group survival' a part of creation, as 'reality'and it's here to stay.

Knowledge is based on ‘Logic’. Logic is a way to grasp what apparently exists and also what does not exist at all. Brightness and darkness are grasped as day and night. God, death, space, time, etc is grasped as an absence etc.etc. To achieve such grasping, the mind, which is a software by itself, programmes itself.  So it uses a concept called ‘ time’ to interpret change and uses another concept called ‘cause’ to interpret an effect. It even uses 'space', an absence, as a background, for 'forms' as 'things' 'present'. By doing so, ‘time’ and ‘cause’ become the initial reality, which are basically concepts of grasping or ‘logic’ forming tools or the foundation for experiencing the 'world' of objects. So we learn to question ‘why’ , as if it could have an answer and also ‘when’. All answers to such questions limit themselves with ifs and buts, and assumptions or presumptions.

Lets take electricity for an example. All of us, feel its effects only. The energy, the shock, the light, the torque, the TV pictures, the mobile sounds, etc etc. And we say, that all of has its source, in electricity. So we create electricity as an idea or a concept, as an ‘imagined’ cause or source, to all these effects. The ultimate source can never be known or experienced, because there isnt one, 'objectively'. Subject, being only a reversal of 'objects' therefore, goes 'out' with it. Only the effects will be known. However we learn to grasp or experience with the help of our knowledge, taking for granted that such a ‘thing’ as ‘source’ exists, in the way, we say, something should exist, and we experience ‘its concept’ rather than the source itself. The source is an absence. You cannot experience it. What can be a ‘content of experience’ in consciousness, cannot be the source. So we can never ever experience the ultimate source.  Life is the source of all that is, but only experienced as its ‘creation’ or ‘effect’ or what  is said to be ‘an expression of the ultimate source’, rather than the source itself.

Another simple example is the experience of the ‘sky’. We experience, what we know as ‘the sky’. It is blue in colour and is like the background for all that is above our head, not rooted to the ground. But sky is an empty space or an absence of objective matter. Then how does one experience that which does not exist?, simply by a mental inversion of absence to a presence. So we say that ‘space’ exists. We also give colour to something that doesn’t exist. This is the reality, imposed on us by the society, or science, or the 'past'.

So how do we experience, whatever that is, that we experience.  The mind has all the knowledge that has been passed on since generations. We know all that ever is, in this universe, to the extent that we experience them. In other words, we experience, everything though the help of knowledge. In the absence of knowledge, we cannot experience anything. What we experience therefore is the knowledge of the thing and not the thing. Knowledge of the thing, is the thingness to form. There is no other ‘thingness’ to any form. All forms are empty of thingness. We imagine that shape is the thing, by projecting the knowledge to what we ‘sense’, shape being a major share of the concept, and thereby experience the concept of the things, rather than the things itself.

No-one can ever experience a sensation without knowledge.  Even to say 'pain' to the sensation, it must have knowledge as its background. Or else, one would say, i am feeling something that I cannot tell, and so communication would end. 

Knowledge or concepts to forms, are simply our ideas about them, for purpose of experiencing the world. There is no other way we can experience the world of objects. Also there is no other tool, by which an ‘objective’ experience can be had. So all reality is simply the knowledge that we have about them and knowledge is not a solid thing. The ‘person’ to the body is also the thingness to this form, or simply a concept. So we project what we know of human forms and experience them as people. Thus reality is purely a mental exercise of grasping, and called 'the creation', that is based in knowledge. Knowledge by itself is simply an accumulation of beliefs, or 'general agreements' or 'society'.. Thus beliefs passed on by the society, tradition, culture etc etc, is knowledge. So 'reality' of the world is - 'the reality, forced on us', by society, tradition, culture etc. There is no other reality. The ‘ultimate reality or truth’  is simply a myth, placed on us by the society. There isn’t an ultimate reality. Even if there was, you cannot experience it, as it is a concept, outside of ‘knowledge’, as per the scriptures. So we seek to 'know' what is called 'unknown' or God. We would have to 'make up' fictitious concepts and experience such realities, calling them 'mystical'. Its a pure 'bullshit'.  

So we seek and seek until, it dawns on us, that there isn’t an 'unknown' or source 'to achieve'. And then seeking stops.  The sense of a ‘me’, as an individual to the body, is based in ‘seeking’ and this will also come to an end, whenever the seeking dynamics stops. It then dawns on ‘us’, that such a ‘thing’ called ‘me’, was simply the ‘want’ or ‘seeking’ to know, to grasp etc etc., that generated such a ‘seeker’ and the seeking & seeker was simply one movement.

Hence that clarity, about ‘reality’ being conceptual gets cleared. So the world is ‘unreal’ or conceptual. Reality doesn’t mean a thing. Nothing can exist, without ‘you’. This is the only reality, as if ‘you’ and ‘existence as reality’ or the 'world', are many names to 'one' ‘being, that is simply 'not' objectively. Its only a 'knowing intelligence' and plays out as 'being creation'.