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it was impossible to be happy in this world. But when he talked with his own gardener, the simple-minded Thomas, his perception of the world underwent a change. Does this not prove that the extension of knowledge is the cause of unrest?
Ans. That knowledge should be the cause of unrest,
does not sound logical. Half-knowledge or nonfactual knowledge is certainly the cause of unrest. But then knowledge itself is not to blame for this; what is at fault is the incompleteness or the impropriety of it. There is a moral saying:
Knowledge ends vanity born of arrogance. If someone accumulates a great deal of learning and becomes insane, who is going to treat him? People for whom even medicine serves as a poison, are beyond cure.
In my opinion, an acquaintance with the working of the physical organism increases awareness. With knowledge and awareness together, habits can be changed. In our brain there is an element-the memory-chemical. The physicians got hold of it. They extracted the memory chemical out of one organism and injected it into another. The experiment was conducted on a rat. For days, the rat was given training which led him from darkness to light. After the training was over, that rat spontaneously left darkness for light. The memory-chemical of this rat was extracted and injected into another rat. The second rat, too, like the first, deserted darkness for ever. The same experiment could be conducted on man. But how can the experiment be performed in the absence of full knowledge?
Among the vibrations of thought and feeling present in a man's brain, are also the vibrations of anger and
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