Does knowledge cause mental wars?
Knowledge makes the mind restless. It is necessary but not sufficient to just have knowledge. True liberation happens when we dissociate with our minds. It does sound counterintuitive, especially when we are told that this is a knowledge-driven economy.
One has to traverse from Data to Knowledge to Wisdom to Self-consciousness to Liberation. Accessing the treasure of internal knowledge will make you wiser. External knowledge will be necessary for survival and to keep the mind active.
A restless mind is not capable of being liberated. Knowledge alone will do more harm than good if it’s not converted into wisdom. That’s why liberation is so hard. It’s almost a paradox.
Our mind is the biggest barrier to consciousness. This might sound crazy but, once you reflect on this, you would understand why. An inactive mind is incapable of being conscious. You free your mind by observing the way it thinks and acts. If the mind controls you, you are incapable of being liberated, but if you can control your mind you become conscious.
You cannot free your mind by deliberately controlling it. You can free it but not by applying any limits and constraints, but yet observing its doings without a bias. The body is very much limited and is temporary. Mind, body and you are 3 different entities. Mind is a function of time and controlled by the environment. But “you” That’s one entity that’s boundless and infinite and eternal. The mind reacts to feelings, emotions, etc. But “you” do not and can not. That’s the definition of you. That’s the only way to realize and gain consciousness. “Being” is different from existence. The difference is being a combination of existence and self-consciousness.
“You” are beyond feelings and emotions. Because you have gained a higher meaning of “being”. Human beings are not special but have a choice to gain self-consciousness. This is what separates animals that can attain self-consciousness and those that cannot. To reflect on their being.
