Look at it like this: there are some teachings which can be learned even if we remain as we are. One doesn’t need to transform oneself in order to learn mathematics or history or something like that. The person can remain the same and his learning will go on accumulating. But religion is an entirely different matter. In religion a transformation is need before the knowing can be acquired. Unless you change, you cannot understand; you will have to be transformed in order to understand. Unless the transformation is of inner being, intellectual accumulation will not do; they become a deception, a self-deception. That is why it is better to remain ignorant instead of deceiving yourself with a false assumption of knowledge, because the ignorant person is at least humble, the learned person becomes egotistical and arrogant. The ignorant person at least feels the pain of emptiness in himself and tears flow from his eyes, but the learned person is just puffed up, his tears have dried up and his thirst has faded away. Even false water is capable of satisfying ones thirst… OSHO-THE WAT BEYOND ANYWAY.page.4
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