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CHAPTER-V
FIRST LADDER-PHILOSOPHY OF PRINCIPLES
Knowledge and contemplation are the foundation stones of conduct. If the foundation stones are strong, the building constructed will also be very tenacious (fast). If the slabs are raw or not properly fixed and if construction is started on them there will be no guarantee for its safety. For this very reason what is the doctrine, what is its profoundity and potency? Its knowledge and test is first essential.
Knowledge is that which is cognited by the contact of mind and seness. But whatever is thus cognited is not all true knowledge. Good and bad are thus both cognitedhence contemplation is important with knowledge. Contemplation is a seive of knowledge which retains substantial and throws out rubbish. The excellence of knowledge does not manifest without contemplation, in that case, contemplation is a link between what is known and believed.
Contemplation also elevates the human mind. The contemplative mind reflects upon its touch-stone whatever he knows then the conviction arrived at regarding the usefulness of that knowledge consolidates and it remains permanent. However, a great man might have spoken a thing and virtually that advice may howsoever be beneficial but if training has been imparted to accept it with closed
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