The Consequence Of Not Knowing

One enters life

Being told this and that.

 

Seeing and hearing

This and that.

 

He does not know any better.

So he believes it.

He inculcates it.

 

He interprets the smells as fruits.

He interprets the sounds as truth.

 

It will be years

Before he begins to recognize

The errors of his ways.

 

Those years

Will never return.

 

The suffering of those years

Will never be undone.

 

The decades that have been wasted

Will never be given back to him.

 

Man does not realize

The Consequence

Of Not Knowing.

 

One is never in his life

Given the Truth.

 

He is given only

Worldly notions.

 

Thus,

The world and its people

Live a life

Of turmoil and suffering.

 

What would a man give

To Know.

 

What would a man give

To have the possibility

To avoid wasting his life.

 

What would a man give

To sidestep

A life of suffering.

 

Is there a thing more valuable

Than The Truth.

 

Is there a life more fortunate

Than a life of Knowing.

 

Man lives a life

Of endless assault.

 

Assault

From all sides.

 

Because he has been taught

That X is Y.

And A is B.

 

Because he believes

That up is down.

And right is left.

 

If one does not Know

The workings of a machine

He is sure to be maimed.

 

Man lives his life

Believing that he knows.

And each day of his life

Reminds him otherwise.

 

What sort of fate

Could be worse

Than not knowing.

 

This is the fate

Man is born into

When he enters the world.

 

A man who Knows

Has a fighting chance.

 

A man who does not

Is born a slave.

 

 

Namaste.