Distinction between knowledge and ignorance.

Most of us have yet to learn the distinction between knowledge and ignorance. Up to this time our conception had been that one got knowledge from books and schools. Later on with spiritual advancement we give up this false conception. We start learning that to know God is knowledge, and not to know Him is ignorance.

God with and without form

MASTER: "Well, do you believe in God with form or without form?"

Student rather surprised, said to himself: "How can one believe in God without form when one believes in God with form? And if one believes in God without form, how can one believe that God has a form? Can these two contradictory ideas be true at the same time? Can a white liquid like milk be black?"

Student: "Sir, I like to think of God as formless."

MASTER: "Very good. It is enough to have faith in either aspect. You believe in God without form; that is quite all right. But never for a moment think that this alone is true and all else false. Remember that God with form is just as true as God without form. But hold fast to your own conviction."

The assertion that both are equally true amazed the student.; he had never learnt this from his books.

Om Namah Shivay.