One does not become a jnani simply by reading philosophy. That is a great
misconception. Many people believe that you can spiritually unfold or evolve
into a jnani through reading books, through understanding another's unfoldment
or performing meditations that he once performed. Understanding another person's
wisdom does not make us wise. Each has to experience the fullness of the path to
enlightenment himself.
The jnani becomes one who postulates that what he has himself realized are the
final conclusions for all mankind. His postulations are filled with assuredness,
for he has experienced what the Vedas, the Agamas and the Upanishads speak of.
He has awakened the power and force of his own realization. He knows. He becomes
the embodiment of that knowing, of the Truth he once sought as something other
than himself. He finds within the scriptures confirmation of his realization
echoed in the verses of rishis written at the dawn of human history.
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