(SUPERIMPOSITION)" Ignorance.........

(SUPERIMPOSITION)"

"Ignorance"

This superimposition is called ignorance metaphorically, the effect being put for the cause. Ignorance does not mean want of knowledge, but that kind of knowledge which is stultified later on by the knowledge of things as they are. Its counterpart is called knowledge.When the Self is discriminated from its limiting adjuncts through practice of meditation on them.,then knowledge dawns, which destroys this superimposion. A mere intellectual knowledge is however not meant here, but actual realization.

Our knowledge (empirical) is no knowledge at all is further proved by the fact that we do not differ from animals in the matter of cognition. Just as a cow runs away then she sees a man with a raised stick in his hand, while she approches one with a handful of green grass, so also do men, who possess higher intelligence, walk away from wicked person shouting with drawn swords,while they approach those of an opposite nature. The behavior of animals in cognition,etc. is well known to be based on ignorance.Therefore it can be interred that man's conduct in the matter of cognition,etc. so long as they are under delusion, is also similarly based.