Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Aug. 16, 2005

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Today, we have so many fields of knowledge in the world. However, all

these categories of knowledge do not constitute what is regarded as

Jnana (spiritual wisdom) in Vedantic parlance. Atma Jnana alone is

true knowledge. Ordinary knowledge constitutes knowledge of material

objects acquired through sensory inputs and by investigation. But none

of these can be Atma Jnana (knowledge of the Self). In the highest

sense, Atma (the Spirit) and Jnana (Knowledge) are not different; they

are one and the same. That is why the Upanishads declare: "Sathyam,

Jnanam, Anantham Brahma" (Brahman is Truth, Wisdom and Infinitude);

they are all different names for the same Paramatma (God).

 

-SAI BABA