Knowledge

It is said that ignorance is bliss! It then follows that knowledge is the opposite.

Should we believe this?

Well I roam around and see people with different levels of knowledge and in different levels of economic status. Also I find people having varying levels of happiness, contentment, worries, miseries, and so on. The general impression that I gather is quite revealing to me.

The people with lesser degree of knowledge are again generally in a happy state of mind. Their worries, if they have any, are minor in nature. As a result they are contented and therefore, are able to laugh and sleep better. They may not be in the state of bliss but are the present day knowledgeable people in that state? Would they not want just to laugh and sleep as the less knowledgeables are doing?

Is it then that knowledge deprives people of the ability to easily laugh and peacefully fall asleep? If so, it would then emerges that knowledge is the one which creates miseries of all types. And therefore, any sane person would say knowledge is evil. Wrong!!!!

Faulty knowledge is evil. The one which is making people more ignorant. The one which is depriving people of the wisdom he is naturally born with and would naturally develop with age. This, all other creatures are wise enough to understand except we human beings.

All non-human creatures know how to live with the Nature and not how to live off-with the Nature. Therefore, the day we learn to live with the Nature we will experience the "bliss" we are so intensely looking for. So, should not our endeavour be to gather that knowledge?