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knowledge. This so called knowledge may be good and useful for worldly life, but it is of little help so far as spiritual development and ultimate bliss are concerned. Srimad discriminates common knowledge. i.e. knowledge of worldly objects, form the right knowledge. Worldly knowledge may be useful in achieving success in mundane activities or affairs. While achieving such success or indulging in such activities, man is generally motivated by his passions like greed, ego, attachment, repulsion etc.. Such passions are detrimental and work as impediments on the path of spiritual development and therefore such knowledge is not right knowledge.
Śrimad therefore says that whatever makes one comprehend the nature of a thing, is right knowledge. Such knowledge only is useful for self-realization. whereas all other knowledge is harmful to it as it only helps incur karma-bondage, which in turn leads to the cycle of brith and death. He has on several occasions said that, the effect or result of acquiring knowledge, must be to inculcate in one, detachment from worldly life, but the soul, generally, is not acting in its pure nature, it acts under the influence of attachment, repulsion, delusion, greed, anger etc. That knowledge, which does not stop or prohibit the seeker from coming under such influences, or from doing acts or thoughts
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