Knowledge, Ignorance and India
No knowledge comes from an imaginary supernatural paradise or from some imaginary divine entity. All knowledge, scientific or philosophical, ancient or modern, rises from the human mind. These minds are by all means just as human as any other person on earth. But rigorous training on the self puts them at a higher level of mental functioning than the general population. However, this height of excellence has its own peer-less purpose. At this level, we thinkers hail ourselves to be the servant of humanity. And this trend of servitude goes back not decades or even centuries, rather thousands of years. In every age, there are these individuals upon the shoulders of whom the entire human civilization progresses. Like any other person, we the scientists and philosophers, are ordinary human beings - all of us are humans, not gods or divine incarnations. And all the work we do - all the scientific and philosophical literatures we create, we do so by the use of our very natural human faculties, which have evolved in us, that is in all humanity, through the natural process of evolution. All the knowledge and wisdom that we give to the species are constructed by the biological circuits of our brain, and not by some sort of deity. And the same goes to the knowledge that the ancient thinkers of India and some other civilizations came up with. All their knowledge that later were compiled into organized textual scriptures of early humanity, were their creation, and not of some imaginary Gods. Read more on EDIT. Read the full article