"Isn't Absolute Ignorance the Absolute Bliss?"

A little while ago, I happened to read the blog titled “Knowledge or Ignorance…Which is better?” 

Quite a nice blog it was, a thought provoking one!                    

This very question “Which is better of the two – knowledge or ignorance?” has been bothering me for long, with no conclusive answer arrived at. I wonder if others too faced similar impasse!

You can’t simply laugh me off, nor can favor me with a patronizing smile, if I were to say, ‘Being (absolutely) ignorant is preferable to being (supposedly) knowledgeable’.

Can it be contested, when I say, “One can be absolutely ignorant but None can be absolutely knowledgeable?”

Yes, there can never be a thing called ‘absolute knowledge’ in this universe!  

And with all modesty, I may also add that spiritual knowledge had had different schools of varying thoughts and philosophies in different ages, with masters and seekers of varying degrees of intellect, subscribing to each of those many schools. We also had independent seekers beyond the confines of religion. And spiritual knowledge alone is not all that is there to ‘knowledge’ in this universe!

I shall readily throw my patronizing smile at whosoever claims to possess ‘absolute knowledge’ in any single sphere, leave alone the infinite domains known to, or lost by humans till date!

Let us also not ignore those other sayings – “Ignorance is better than half-knowledge” & “Ignorance is bliss”! It was not for nothing that these sayings could take shape!

Well, it quite often gets me restive each time I try to analyze and see what serious and incessant pursuit of knowledge can do to someone......anyone!

It can only make one more doubtful, more uncertain, and even apprehensive at times!

The farther and deeper you try to analyze to clear a certain doubt, there arise a few more....and then a lot more! The more you probe, the more would be the questions posed to you, with no plausible answers! It would be kind of getting into a quagmire……a journey of no return, since the destination looks forever afar! 

And such are the situations when I feel, how very tranquil it would be, ‘Not To Know Anything At All’!

Well, friends, this is just one side of the polygon, as you might well know!