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doubts. If we do not have that we are not likely to strive towards it. Hence, we are trying to remove wheels of ignorance that stand between us and Ultimate knowledge. All these wheels are knowledge in a sense but partial knowledge. They reveal half and hide the other half. So Ultimate knowledge which is complete Reality too, has to be loved. He who loves Ultimate Reality is a philosopher. Those, who possess verbal understanding of Reality as poets do, are not real lovers of Ultimate Reality. They are happy with small things like playing with cards. The Ultimate Reality is not what they are living for or dying for. But we know Ultimate Reality can be known by loving. So also as it was stated by one author, in every science we start with an intention to know Ultimate Reality. But our aim is to know Reality directly without intermediary knowledge or instrument. The soul can know Reality without the help of human instruments - that is, instruments made by men. Your intellect is onething, your rationality is the second thing, your senses are the third thing. These three things we think help us to understand Reality. But in fact, as one man said, these instruments hide reality rather than knowing it. Our intellect blurs Reality. Our mind makes it cloudy and our senses misdirect. Thus our senses show reality in an inverted way, mind in a perverted way and I do not know whether I should say something about Buddhi also. These instruments, which are used by philosophers of the sense, philosophers of the reason or the mind and philosophers of the intellect, do not take you to the Ultimate Reality. HE IS A GOOD PHILOSOPHER WHO WANTS TO KNOW REALITY WITHOUT THE INTERMEDIARY OF THESE INSTRUMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE, INTELLECT, SENSES ETC.
Is there a way by which this can be achieved? and do you think that Reality which is known directly may be useful to you in this way? How many people like to have knowledge which is useful in the ordinary sense of the term. According to them, our knowledge is intended only to feed our body and protect our body. The body is interested in protecting itself, all knowledge is interested in protecting the body. And, we are confronted with the fact that our body perishes. With all the effort that you can make with the knowledge, you are not able to protect it from accident or death or even from diseases. Why I say this is - one man said that he is trying to have immortality of his body. I was rather amused about the extraordinary old