A Wisdom Archive on Ignorance

Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, or a willful lack of desire to improve the efficiency, merit, effectiveness or usefulness of one's actions. Ignorance is also a "state of being ignorant" or unaware/uninformed. Ex: "In debate class Bill lost the debate because he was ignorant in (without knowledge of) that subject." In politics, it is almost always used as a pejorative label, but some political movements have raised it to an ideal, for instance the Know-Nothings of the 19th century United States and some peasant and agrarian mo ...

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Hindu Quotes: Ignorance is Destroyed
 
When ignorance is destroyed, the Self is liberated from its identification with the world.
 
 This liberation is Enlightenment.
 
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:25

 
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Hindu Quotes: Forest of Ignorance
 
Know you are one,
 Pure awareness.
 
 With the fire of this conviction
 Burn down the forest of ignorance.
 
 Free yourself from sorrow,
 And be happy.
 
 
- Ashtavakra Gita 1:9

 
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Definitions Can Be Misleading
The Bible says: "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God". Having first convinced himself, he then proceeds to broadcast it to the world. Nietzsche the philosopher announced that God is dead.
 
Later, mortal that he was, Nietzsche died. Had God the Creator sent an obituary notice to the newspapers, it would have read thus: "Nietzsche is dead! Signed: GOD".
 

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Hindu Quotes: Judgment and Wisdom
 
The Lord does not partake in the good and evil deeds of any person; judgment is clouded when wisdom is obscured by ignorance. But ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self within.
 
- Bhagavad Gita 5:15-16

 
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When we come to Vedanta, there is no question about Kundalini or any type of mystical and mechanical methods. It is all enquiry and philosophical speculation. According to Vedanta the only thing to be destroyed is ignorance about one’s real nature, and this ignorance cannot be destroyed either by study, or by Pranayama, or by work, or by any amount of physical twisting and torturing, but only by knowing one’s real nature, which is Sat-Chit-Ananda or Existence-Knowledge-Bliss.

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Only direct Knowledge can be the cause for Liberation. Action by itself cannot destroy our illusions and delusions. It is because of our ignorance that we appear to be finite. When ignorance is destroyed by
 
Knowledge, the Self reveals Itself by itself, like the sun when the clouds are removed.
 

 
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Hindu Quotes: Failure to Discriminate
 
 Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
 
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:5

 
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The Jiva is the soul in union with the senses. It is limited by the body. It is endowed with egoism. The reflection of Purusha in the Buddhi or intellect appears as the ego or the empirical soul. It is associated with ignorance and Karma. It is subject to pleasure and pain, action and its fruits, and rotates in the cycle of births and deaths.
 
Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda
 

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Hinduism and Maya
According to Hinduism, the world around us is not real, because it is impermanent and ever changing. The world in which we live is a world of ignorance and falsehood or untruth, called Asat, in contrast to Sat or the world of Truth that exists beyond it, where neither the mind, nor any of the senses can ever reach even remotely.
 

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Guru is one who has full Self-illumination and who removes the veil of ignorance in deluded Jivas. Guru, Truth, Brahman, Ishvara, Atman, God, Om are all one. The number of realised souls may be less in this Kali Yuga when compared with the Satya Yuga, but they are always present to help the aspirants. They are always searching for the proper Adhikarins.

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All psychic phenomena is available to all of us equally. We will each interpret it in ways that serve our own purposes. This may include ignoring it, or discounting it, according to a logical, scientific framework. When interpreting such phenomena ask yourself what your purpose is in the way you interpret it. Being honest about your intention is the best protection from foolish conclusions and actions.
 

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