MIND : ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL :21-2.





21. SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE THAT DIFFERENTIATES  MAN FROM ANIMAL-2.




In the Police Station, the Chaprasi (peon) strikes ten at the gate.

The sound vibrates and passes into the ears of men and animals.

The animals also hear ten times the beating.

But the man counts them and knows through his Buddhi, “Now it is ten o’clock.”

He has got this Visesha Jnana (special knowledge); whereas animals have got Samanya Jnana (ordinary knowledge).

It is this special knowledge that differentiates a man from an animal.

Ahara (food), Nidra (sleep), Bhaya (fear) and Maithuna (copulation) are common to both.

Through this Visesha Jnana he knows right from wrong, good from bad, what to do (Kartavya) and what not to do (Akartavya).


Next : 22.THE FOUR SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE-1.


Swami Sivananda

To be continued  ...






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