They'll not accept knowledge given by God, they'll manufacture knowledge. That is material disease. And that knowledge is also uncertain

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"They'll not accept knowledge given by God, they'll manufacture knowledge. That is material disease. And that knowledge is also uncertain"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Everyone is struggling to become God. Even when one is so-called liberated, self-realized, just like the Māyāvādī philosopher, they are also writing, "Self, my own self," but "I am independent." And that is the material disease. Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā. He's always thinking that, "I am independent," which he's not. He's completely under the laws of nature, prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni (BG 3.27), but he's thinking "I'm independent." That is foolishness. They'll not accept knowledge given by God, they'll manufacture knowledge. That is material disease. And that knowledge is also uncertain. One stalwart man of knowledge is speaking, "I think, I believe," and another stalwart is saying: "No, no, I think, I believe." What is the meaning of this "I think, I believe"? We say: "You are all rascals. Whatever you believe, whatever you think, they are all rascaldom." That's all.

760608 - Conversation B - Los Angeles

After all, imitation is imitation. Sometime it is perfect imitation . . . perfect cannot be; but as far as possible. But imitation is there. And the material life is imitation. Because material life means we want to imitate God. That is material life. God is all-powerful; we want to become all-powerful. That is material life. And the struggle for existence. Because we cannot become God, it is impossible, but artificially, they are trying to become God. That is struggle for existence. So material life means imitation. Everyone is struggling to become God. Even when one is so-called liberated, self-realized, just like the Māyāvādī philosopher, they are also writing, "Self, my own self," but "I am independent." And that is the material disease. Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā. He's always thinking that, "I am independent," which he's not. He's completely under the laws of nature, prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni (BG 3.27), but he's thinking "I'm independent." That is foolishness. They'll not accept knowledge given by God, they'll manufacture knowledge. That is material disease. And that knowledge is also uncertain. One stalwart man of knowledge is speaking, "I think, I believe," and another stalwart is saying: "No, no, I think, I believe." What is the meaning of this "I think, I believe"? We say: "You are all rascals. Whatever you believe, whatever you think, they are all rascaldom." That's all. This is our decision. There are many persons, they are simply saying: "I think, I believe," and we say: "You all people who are thinking independently, believing independently, you are all rascals." That's all. So far our position is concerned, we never say "I think." Whatever we say, we support it immediately by some quotation of the Vedic literature. That is our process.