It is one of the evils of. . . civilization that we are after intellectual education alone and take no care of the heart. It only makes man ten times more selfish, and that will be our destruction. . .Intellect can never become inspired; only the heart when it is enlightened, becomes inspired.
An intellectual, heartless man can never become an inspired man . . . Intellect has been cultured, with the result that hundreds of sciences have been discovered, and their effect has been that the few have made slaves of the many – that is all the good that has been done.
Artificial wants have been created; and every poor man, whether he has money or not, desires to have those wants satisfied; and when he cannot, he struggles, and dies in the struggle. This is the result. The way to solve the problem of misery is not through the intellect but through the heart.
If all this vast amount of effort had been spent in making men purer, gentler, more forbearing, this world would have a thousandfold more happiness than it has today.
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I like to think of it this way... in our Universe, knowledge is infinite because a multitude of systems affect a multitude of systems all the time, creating different combinations, different environments, different factors. At some point, there will be no more place to store information... knowledge storage mediums cost the environment (trees for paper, metals for computer equipment, etc. etc.). While these are all important to us right now, what will happen in 2000 years when there's MORE knowledge to store? It seems that the God would have created a system by which we can BE that knowledge, instead of playing catch up in seeking it. I believe it's entirely possible, as Yogis and Rishis did years ago, to have access to all sorts of knowledge at any given point - simply by understanding the true nature of our own souls.
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