165. The Science of Spirituality.
K rishna says, “O Arjuna, know Me to be the beginning, middle, and end of all creation. Amongst sciences I am the science of spirituality, I am logic in arguments” (10.32). Referring to the same spiritual knowledge, Krishna earlier said that when you realise this, nothing more here remains to be known (7.2). The essence is to know the self. Krishna calls the knower of the self a yogi and says he is superior to the shastra jnani who has read numerous texts but is still not aware of self (6.46). In this context Krishna earlier said, “Know ‘That’ by prostration, questioning and service, the wise who have realised the Truth will teach you the knowledge” (4.34). Essentially, any knowledge which dissolves our ahankaar (I am doer or I am knower) is spiritual knowledge. It could be history, physics or medicine where the more we know the more is left to be known. All of them can make us realise that we are just a nimitta-maatra (an instrument) in the hands of the Almighty. S...