| What is right knowledge? It means knowledge of the nature of soul as also of the means of spiritual welfare. In order to completely know the nature of soul, it is necessary to know even the material karmic coverings that affect it. Without knowing them we cannot understand the various states of the soul and consequently cannot easily achieve the spiritual good. As a matter of fact, without faith in, knowledge of and meditation on the soul, all our worldly knowledge is vain1 and useless. All our misseries and distresses are due to our ignorance of the soul. What else except the constant knowledge of the soul could be the means to remove this ignorance? The sole secret teaching of the entire spiritual literature is that one should be inclined to the soul. |
