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the earth, it never allows you to see the stars. It never allows you to see the beyond, and beyond is what god means -- the beyond. Going beyond knowledge is going into the beyond.
Going beyond knowledge is going into the beyond. Dropping knowledge is creating an opportunity to know.
Socrates says: I know only one thing, that I know nothing.
This is the beginning of wisdom, this is transcendence, this is the meaning of your name.
(His address to the next sannyasin, Vedaprem, was in a similar vein.)
The only criterion of wisdom is love. The knowledgeable person is not a loving person, he cannot be. He is so full of rubbish, he is so much in his head... that his heart functions no more.
His whole energy has moved into the head. He has become just his head, he has forgotten the way to his heart.
Even if he loves he loves through the head; he thinks he loves. Even love is not love -- not a feeling. That too is a conclusion, a logical conclusion that one needs love, that it is nourishing, that it is a necessity of life, but all these are conclusions of the mind.
A man of love is bound to be a man of wisdom. These two things are two aspects of the same coin. One can begin from either; either you start becoming love, then wisdom will come as a shadow of your love, or you start by becoming wise and love will come as its shadow. But remember, by wise I mean intelligent, not knowledgeable.
Intellect is not intelligence and to be an intellectual is not necessarily to be intelligent. Intelligence is a totally different quality. The intellectual only repeats whatsoever he has learned. In any situation which is absolutely new, about which he knows nothing, he is an utter fool. He cannot act spontaneously, his whole activity comes from his memory. If there is something in his memory then he is very knowledgeable, he is an expert. If some situation arises for which he has a ready-made answer then he will prove that he knows much. But even a small problem which is new is impossible for him; he cannot solve it.
The intelligent person has a certain immediacy. He can respond to any situation. He does not depend on
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