Do you worship ignorance or half-truth?🔗

There are two types of people; one, who worship ignorance; second, who worship half-truth. Both remain in a state of powerlessness. This article talks about the nature of such people as described in the Upanishads and points to a practice that establishes one in the experience of reality.

The Scripture

The definition of these two types of people is found in the 9th verse of the Isavasya Upanishad.

The verse:

andhaṁ tamaḥ praviśanti ye'avidyām upāsate | tato bhūya iva te tamo yau vidyāyāṁ ratāḥ || 9 ||

Translation:

Those who worship avidyā, ignorance (that veils the true knowledge of Truth, Consciousness), enter into blinding darkness characterized by the absence of perception;

but into greater darkness of ignorance than that, enter they who, considering themselves as scholarly and learned, are engaged in vidyā, the incomplete knowledge acquired for vested interests, characterized by the impure perception of Truth and Consciousness.