Q 5: Describe the different sources of knowledge.
Course: Philosophy of Education
Course Code 8609
Topics
- Describe the different sources of knowledge.
- Different sources of knowledge
- Instinct, Reason, Intuition
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Answer:
Inspiration, revelation, insight, intuition, ecstasy, divine sight, and the supreme, blissful state are the seven planes of knowledge. There are four sources of knowledge: instinct, reason, intuition, and direct knowledge of Brahman (God) or Brahma-Janna (knowledge of God).
Instinct
When an ant crawls on your right arm, the left hand automatically moves towards the right arm to drive the ant away. The mind does not reason here. When you see a scorpion near your leg, you withdraw the leg automatically. This is called instinctive or automatic movement. As you cross a street, how instinctively you move your body to save yourself from the cars! There is no thought during such a kind of mechanical movement.
Instinct is
found in animals and birds also. In birds, the ego does not interfere with the
free, divine flow and play. Hence the work done by them through their instinct
is more perfect than that done by human beings. Have you ever noticed the
intricate and exquisite work done by birds in the building of their beautiful nests?
Reason
Reason is higher than instinct and is
found only in human beings. It collects facts, generalizes, and reasons out from
cause to effect, from effect to cause, from premises to conclusions, and from propositions
to proofs. It concludes, decides, and comes to final judgment. It takes you
safely to the door of intuition and leaves you there. Belief, reason, knowledge, and faith are the
four important psychic processes. First, you have belief in a doctor. You go to
him for diagnosis and treatment. The doctor makes a thorough examination of you
and prescribes certain medicines. You take them.
You reason out: "Such and such is the
disease. The doctor has given me some iron and iodide. Iron will improve my
blood. The iodide will stimulate the lymphatic’s and absorb the exudation and
growth in the liver. So I should take it." Then, by a regular and
systematic course of these drugs, the disease is cured in a month. You then get
knowledge and have perfect faith in the efficacy of the medicine and the
proficiency of the doctor. You recommend this doctor and his drugs to your
friends so that they too might benefit from his treatment.
Intuition
Intuition is a personal spiritual
experience. The knowledge obtained through the functioning of the causal body
(Karana Sarira) is intuition. Sri Aurobindo calls it the Super Mind or
Supramental Consciousness. There is a direct perception of truth or immediate
knowledge through Samadhi or the superconscious State. You know things in a
flash. Professor Bergson preached about intuition in France to make the people
understand that there was a higher source of knowledge than the intellect. In intuition, there is no reasoning process at
all. It is direct perception.
Brahma-Janna (knowledge of God)
Intuition transcends reason but does not
contradict it. Intellect takes a man to the door of intuition and returns.
Intuition is Divya Drishti (divine vision); it is the eye of wisdom. Spiritual
flashes and glimpses of truth, inspiration, revelation, and spiritual insight
come through intuition. The mind has to
be pure for one to know that it is the intuition that is functioning at a
particular moment. Brahma-Jnana (knowledge of God) is above intuition. It
transcends the causal body and is the highest form of knowledge. It is the only
Reality.
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