Knowledge & no-knowledge

On the pathway to mukti, we never benefit from accumulating more worldly knowledge. We may need it to survive and may always go on learning, depending on our interests and talents. However, any knowledge gained will somehow always remain limited, because worldly knowledge can only take one so far in life.

If we want to gain mukti and experience the one Truth as the supreme Reality, we have to become eager not only to know It, but to experience pure Being in life as the end of all means. For Self-realisation, the ego must sacrifice itself in the fire of pure knowledge.

In chapter three of his Karika, Gaudapada says, 'The Knowledge Absolute which is unborn and free from all imaginations is always inseparable from the knowable. The immutable and the birthless Brahmn is the sole object of knowledge.' True Knowledge is that which liberates from the binary of sukh and dukh, enabling us to reach to the Substratum beyond all. It is always immanent and transcendent everywhere. It is the only knowledge worth knowing and through mukti, it becomes no-knowledge.


Brahmn is only to be experienced as pure Being. To know the Divine, no knowledge is required - only meditation. Verses six and seven of the Kaivalya Upanishad state, 'Meditate within, on the clear and the griefless, unthinkable, unmanifest One of endless forms. The One without a beginning, a middle and an end, the only One.'