Passage 4

In English

In spite of this situation, we do find occasionally that some persons feel proud of the little knowledge they have or of the trivial worldly successes they may have attained, proclaiming that God’s qualities are such and such, and that God is like so and so. All the education which these persons have received deals only with the material aspects of the world. Except their ego, what other attainment of theirs gives them the right to speak about spiritual matters which do not come under the purview of their meagre knowledge? In fact, they have not the competence to speak about their own speciality. How can an individual, who has not the proficiency to expound matters which come within the sphere of what he is supposed to have learnt, speak about divinity and its sacred aspects, which relate to higher knowledge? In fact, no human being on this earth has the ability to determine and describe the nature of divinity. In fact, all the learning which a human being can acquire will be limited to any one chosen aspect of God’s creation. In the context of his inability to master the same, how can he understand the innumerable aspects and manifestations of God?