Knowledge can be divided into two aspects: one aspect is the knowledge which we call learning; the other aspect is knowing. Learning comes from the reason:'It is so, because of this or that"; that is knowledge.
But there is a knowing which cannot be explained by "because"; it can only be said that it is so; it cannot be anything else.
The knowledge with its "because" attached, is contradicted a thousand times over. One scientist, one inventor, one learned person has one argument; another comes and he says, "This is not what I think; I have found out the truth about it, which the one who looked before did not perceive rightly." It has always been and will always be so with the outer knowledge.
But with that knowing which is the central knowledge there has never been a difference and there will never be. The saints, sages, seers, mystics, prophets of all ages, in whatever part of the world they were born, when they have touched this realm of knowing, have all agreed on this same one thing. It is therefore that they called it Truth.
It was not because this was the conception of one person, or the expression of another person, or the doctrine of a certain people, or the teaching of a certain religion. No, it was the knowledge of every knowing soul.
And every soul, whether in the past, present, or future, whenever it arrives at the stage when it knows, will realize the same thing. Therefore it is in that knowledge that there is to be found the fulfillment of the purpose of one's coming on the earth.
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