There
will always be more to be experienced, more to be known, more to be proved,
more to be explained and more to be understood in this universe. Perfect
knowledge will always remain a dream for the man. The man cannot create, but,
perhaps, he has the ability to understand what has been created.
We try to live relying on the half knowledge of the half
truths. Our doubts do not permit us to settle down peacefully with what we
know. We keep trying to know what we do not know, but we also try to seek peace
on the basis of our experiences that do not vary much in their predictive
character, especially in particular frames of space, time and circumstances. We
try to rely on them and have faith in them. Our life had been going on like
this for ages, and no sky has ever fallen on account of this.
We believe, we have faith and we rely on things that we have
not ever seen or touched. We also modify our beliefs, and even discard them
altogether to make place for new ones. We have no proof for the beliefs we
have, simply because we are the people with half knowledge of half truths. When
we ‘believe’, we know that we do not know everything and there is much to be
known in this universe. Maybe, we have a strong urge to know because we
‘believe’; and, we believe, because we have a strong urge to know. Our beliefs
pivot on the thought of all that exist, but is not known. Some of us who have
read some books demand proof for what we believe in. Do they think that the man
has known what was there to be known on this earth to be able to offer proof
for all that need to be proved? If they indeed think like that they have
definitely been left with no urge to know or to explore any further.
The faith is an expression of simplicity of intellect.
Simplicity of intellect is in having a constant, undiminished and ever
renewable urge to know what we do not know.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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