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Everything is illusive, and that's why it is so beautiful. If man succeeds in knowing everything one day, there will not be anything left except to commit suicide.
We can go on knowing and knowing and knowing, and we never arrive -- the ignorance remains untouched, undisturbed by it.
To come to an understanding of this ignorance is to become enlightened. Hence the socratic dictum: 'I know only one thing -- that I don't know.' That's what enlightenment is all about. If you can accept your ignorance -- welcome it, cherish it, enjoy, delight in it, because this is how things are: nothing is known, nothing can be known and everything is mysterious your life will have a quality of magic.
Logic will be gone, and your life will be more magical; a charm, a tremendous grace will be there, because now there are no boundaries -- nothing is defined. This undefined is what god is. And I call this ignorance divine.
The very urge to know is an egoistic urge, because by knowledge we want to become powerful. Yes, bacon is right when he says, 'Knowledge is power.' And our search is really for power. We go via knowledge. We want to know because by knowing we can manipulate.
The word science means knowledge, and the word religion should really mean ignorance. It is the polar opposite.
Science is an effort to know about things, and religion is not any effort to know -- rather, it is an effort to live whatsoever is... to relax into it and to celebrate it.
If one can rest in one's ignorance, there is no problem, no anxiety. The mind by and by disappears. It makes ripples no more.
You must have heard the old proverb: Ignorance is bliss. It has some depth in it. And I always say, 'Blessed are the ignorant, for theirs is the kingdom of god.' And I don't say, 'Theirs will be the kingdom of god'; I say 'Theirs is the kingdom of god.'
So just have a taste of ignorance, and you will have a taste of me. I am not a man of knowledge. In fact I don't know anything -- because nothing can be known; that is not possible. If somebody claims that he knows something, he is claiming the impossible. I don't know anything. But this not knowing
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