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The Higher Knowledge and the Higher Love are one to the True Lover.
The Upanishads distinguish between a higher knowledge and a lower knowledge. There is really no difference between this higher knowledge of the Upanishads and the bhakta's higher love (Para-Bhakti). The Mundaka Upanishad says :—' -"The knowers of the Brahman declare that.there are two kinds of knowledge worthy to be known, namely, the higher (pará) and the lower (apará), Of these the lower knowledge consists of the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda, the Atharvaveda, the siksha or the science dealing with pronunciation and accent, the kalpa or the sacrificial liturgy, grammar, the nirukta år the science dealing with etymology "and the meaning of words, prosody, and astronomy. The higher knowledge is that by which that Unchangeable is known."* The higher know
