Lower and higher learning

“Learning is of two kinds, the lower and the higher. The lower

is the knowledge of the different scriptures:

the highest knowledge is that by which the imperishable Self is known.”

—(Mundaka Up. 1.1.4-6)

The lower knowledge has its value to the extent in which

it sharpens the intellect and develops our power of understanding

and discrimination.

Real knowledge, however, is not something created by work, by effort of any kind: it is inherent, innate.

A Discussion has its use, but only before Self-realization

and as a help to real understanding.

Sometimes our discussions become so very discursive that they draw us away from Reality and become an obstruction.

Swami Yatiswarananda

Wiesbaden, May 4, 1934

Readings of The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna