Darkness is good and light is good.
If you are conscious, there is no difference between darkness and light. If you have attained to knowledge, if you have attained to excellence, if you are virtuous, if you know how to listen, if you have become calm, if you have become fearless, if your fear is gone, then you can see the light beyond darkness and that is what is called knowledge.
Maharshi or saints are said to be those people who have become fearless, who have recognized water and fire, who can see night and day with the same vision, who do not see the difference between life and death, who cannot differentiate between themselves and others, who can see every place with the same vision.
Man expresses his thoughts from time to time, as long as he is unconscious, he adopts different subjects, ideas and what he is influenced by, he adopts it with alacrity, but the next moment another thought influences him, he adopts it. This sequence reveals our unconsciousness i.e. we are acting like an unconscious child We are doing the same activities of life as a child till the age of fifty or eighty We don't have knowledge. We have not seen the activities of life carefully, we have not made the slightest effort to understand the purpose of life.
On the contrary, some saintly people acquire knowledge, and it does not matter to a man imbued with modern material comforts even to call his knowledge hypocrisy, because he understands more of his foolish behaviour and does not react to it.
To acquire knowledge, one does not need others, but knowledge requires oneself and one has to be self - struggling. Being self-motivated is very important. Many books, teachers, intellectuals can facilitate your path for that path but cannot give you knowledge for that you have to be dynamic, struggling. Man's self-possessed ego is his enemy, that enemy is self-possessed, but man does not understand this and keeps blaming others.Modern science can give us the most material comforts, but it cannot give us spiritual beauty, spiritual peace, knowledge, behavior, proper conduct, for this we have to do meditation, spiritual practice ourselves. This is part of the cycle of life.
At one time we consider the ideas as appropriate knowledge but at another time we also discard that idea when we find it better than that, so this is also science. It's not sustainable The process of learning is temporary but what is learned is permanent. That is spiritual beauty which is learned.
A child starts learning as soon as he comes into the world and continues to learn till the end, but the constant change in the materiality of his body is only material, but the Brahma jnana, the spiritual knowledge that he has acquired through this body is in fact true knowledge.
