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Knowledge is not knowledge. It has the appearance of knowledge, hence it deceives
many. Knowledge is only information. It does not transform you; you remain the same.
Your accumulation of information goes on growing. Rather than liberating you, it
burdens you, it goes on creating new bondages for you.
The so-called man of knowledge is far more foolish than the so-called fool, because the
fool at least is innocent. He is ignorant, but he has no pretensions of knowing — that
much truth is his. But the man of knowledge is in a far greater mess: he knows nothing
but he thinks he knows. Without knowing, to believe that one knows is to remain
forever rooted in ignorance.
Knowledge is a way for ignorance to protect itself — and it protects itself very
cunningly, very efficiently, very cleverly. Knowledge is the enemy although it appears
as the friend.
This is the first step towards wisdom: to know that you don’t know, to know that all
knowledge is borrowed, to know that it has not happened to you, it has come from
others, that it is not your own insight, your own realization. The moment knowledge is
your own realization, it is wisdom.
Wisdom means that you are not a parrot, that you are a man, that you are not repeating
others but expressing yourself, that you are not a carbon copy, that you have an original
face of your own.
Knowledge makes you a carbon copy, and to be a carbon copy is the ugliest thing in the
world. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man — because knowing not
and yet believing that you know, you will remain always ignorant and in darkness.
And whatsoever you do is going to be wrong. You may be able to convince even others
that you know, you may be able to strengthen your ego, you may become very famous,
you may be known as a great scholar, a pundit, but deep down there is nothing but
darkness. Deep down you have not yet encountered yourself, you have not yet entered
in the temple of your being.