Bhagwan Shree,
 
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Who knows he doesn't know is the highest.
Who pretends to know what he doesn't know is the sick minded.
And who recognizes sick mindedness as sick mindedness isn't sick minded.
The sage isn't sick minded because he recognizes sick mindedness as sick mindedness. Therefore he isn't sick minded.
-------Lau Tze
When I was young I thought, I knew everything, when I reached my middle age I thought, I knew something and I didn't knew something. And now at the fall of my life when I am matured I know I don't Know.
-------Sukhrat
Person who knows that he knows, really doesn't know. Person who knows that he doesn't know, really knows.
Agyani (that who doesn't know) gets lost and wanders, but Gyani (who knows) wanders and gets lost more in to darkness.
-------Upanishad
What you call knowledge, though important for work has no base, is falsification of knowledge. It is EGO!!
--------Buddha
The Adam ate the fruit, the fruit of knowledge and he was thrown out of heaven.
-------Bible
Even though I exist near to my children than their breath, those who think they know find me farther than the distant stars.
-------Kuran
A cows Horns, Body, legs everything pass through a window, but its tail is stuck.
Master Kuang slaps the door on the entering bozzo and shouts at trapped bozzo 'Do u get it?'.
Soo asks the master 'What is truth?'. And Master throws him outside the window. Sits on the top of puzzled Soo and asks him 'Do u get it?'.
-------Zen
What u know is relative. Until u are naked from all that u know : u are agile and violent.
Aparigrah means not to fill in anything in ur head, body, ..........................
--------Mahavir
Laugh, Laugh and Laugh until u melt all that you know. Ha!Ha!!!!!
-------Jarthrustha
Maya is nothing but your knowledge of all the senses and conclusion thereunto:
---------Shankar & Sage Vasisth
All knowledge is accumulation of a state that is unto, tending to, death. Hence if you know, u will die with it never knowing that which doesn't die, which is never born, which is knowledge, but u can be knowledge, u can't know knowledge.
---------Krishna
Leave all knowledge! U can't know. Who is that who knows? If u can perceive it, it can't be u. Declare ur freedom by not knowing.
---------Krishnamurthy and Astavakra
 
 
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There is really nothing to add to these beautiful statements so universal and true, that it is surprising that why we don't get them. Just sit in a corner silently and ask yourself do you really know? Let us just get it by one example. Why does an apple fall? Gravitation? What is Gravitation? Force of Attraction between two bodies? Well why do two bodies attract each other? Yea.... Even a Ph.D in Physics would not survive two more Whys? Got it? 
 
Ultimately you say it is law i.e. why. So what do you mean by law? You mean look man, they attract because they attract, I don't know. But how beautifully you have hided I don't know into knowledge. This is it with all the knowledge whether it is business, Management, Technical or whatsoever.
 
The fact is we don't know and all these knowing take us no further. In reality we don't know. Okay one more example: Why trees are green. Because of Pigment? Why pigment is green? Because of chlorophyll? Why Chlorophyll is green? Because it absorbs all but green light? Why it absorbs all and reflects green? Well, well, ...............       
 
We have disguised ourselves as knowledgeable behind such psuedo knowledge? What is the point in going to chlorophyll, when ultimately you have to say I don't know (If you are honest). Of course knowing this may help us in diagnosing the illness of tree or like. But ultimately the fact is tree is green because it is green! But we are so much afraid of the I don't know that we hide behind psuedo knowledge. Like that fool pigeon who closes its eyes seeing a cat thinking the cat has gone!!!
 
One more example is: If u try to know love, love will evaporate and u will not be able to love. The fact is u can be love, u can't know it!!!!
 
And again How much we claim we know, is ours? Is it really my knowledge or borrowed or taken? We pretend what we don't know hence Tao calls us Sick minded. Why u go to mandir or shrines and bow down? Have u seen or experienced God? U say u believe in God? Hv u ever said I believe in Sun? U will ask what is there to believe in Sun? It is there! Then why believe in God? U even use God. Almost all our knowledge is borrowed. Something in which we hide our ignorance and fool ourselves of knowledge!
 
Why are we afraid of  I don't know? Because if you don't know it is insecurity. And we want to be secure! Secure at the cost of happiness! Secure at the cost of fooling ourselves. No doubt then that we create misery for ourselves. Because I don't know leaves you into unknown. And remember Enlightenment is Journey into unknown.
 
Then there are fools who make knowledge ego. In fact, all knowledge is EGO! All Knowledge is ghost that haunts you! Falsifies you!Projects u outside ur true nature! Creates a false identity far away from ur true nature!!!!!!!!
 
There can only be one knowledge and that knowledge is knowledge of you. That is why our Vedas have called all sciences as Avidya and only Meditation as Vidya. Vidya is which liberates you! But the knowledge you accumulate from life and colleges stick to you sticking you to .............................. No doubt then that you are afraid of being alone. All the knowledge haunts you! But there are fools who want to merge Knowledge and Spirituality! You hv heard of the story of Midas the King who asked for a boon that whatever he touches turns gold and then couldn't eat or love. Well whatever you know is Gold and whatever you don't know is God! Because if you know you can't be! And life is celebration of being!
 
And we have psuedo knowledge of even ourselves like My name, my relations, my wife, My .................... Just go on asking yourself the question Who am I? And all ur psuedo knowledge of yourself will fall!!!!!
 
And I don't know is such a beautiful state!! In fact the only aim of education is to have the state of  I don't know. Because if u know, u can't learn. Hence I don't know is the state of ultimate learning, infinity, ever growing. In fact, it is the beginning of mystery.
 
Beginning of the days of curiosity that we as a child possessed. That we as a child could do? Take a bath in mud (U don't know who you are)! Enjoy the sunset and sunrise. Enjoy the planets. Enjoy the apple falling. Wondering at this and that! And seeing Godliness!!!
 
And where there is mystery know for sure God is dawning!
 
But it requires courage to take a plunge into unknown, into I don't know and realizing really that I don't know. To let go and start in I don't know. And when you really don't know you are enlightened because you don't know a moment from moment, past, future, this, that, him or her! You are existing and so is existence with you! And knowing and zeal is Ego only. That attachment is EGO! Once free from that you really don't know, you just watch. Yes, then you can know ..... , knowing I don't know. U are using Knowingness then and not being used by it. What, Yes I don't know!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I Don't know what I have written?
Do you?
Amen!
 
My Pranam
 
Devang H.Dattani

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