The ego of knowledge
Let us move to another important form of ego – the ego that comes with knowledge.
As you grow, you collect judgments and data about several things by reading books and talking to people. These two together make up your knowledge, your whole mental set-up. Anything that you see, you see through this mental set-up.
Anything that you see becomes merely a support to your already formed conclusions. There is no scope for any growth. You are all the time looking through a glass of a particular colour – a colour that you have
When you stop calculating and start being innocent and open, you will be filled with wonder and freshness all the time. painted! You miss a lot in this wonder filled world because of this.
A small story:
A man was telling his friend, 'Do you know, I really made a fool of myself.'
The friend asked, 'Why, what happened?' The man said, 'I replaced ten cracked windows in my house and then discovered that I had a crack in my glasses!'
If we just look inward for one moment, we will understand that we are the common factor in all that we see. But somehow, we never look in. We never doubt our own mind. We feel we know everything; there starts the problem. Our mundane knowledge doesn't give us a chance to evolve.
The most dangerous thing in this is, you feel you are solidified with just your knowledge. You feel you have become a solid character by virtue of your knowledge. Little do you know that you have only become a burden on your being.
Your being is a river and you have made it stagnate with the so-called knowledge. Real knowledge is in knowing how to drop the knowledge that comes your way and live like a child, flowing with