Knowledge : Easy and Difficult

Knowledge attained can be easy for some and can be difficult for others. It all depends upon the person who is trying to gain knowledge. Knowledge about spiritual or material, all depends on your interest and capacity to attain it.

Many years back Swami Kutasthanandji along with his friend stayed in a Businessman"s house. He had a very big family and a huge bungalow. The rich businessman requested swamiji to stay with them for 15 days and every evening for one hour he must do pravachan. Swamiji agreed. The seth had a great influence on his family and he was a strict disciplinarian and everybody had to assemble at 8 p.m for the satsang. School going children also had to join to listen to the pravachan.

Just five days had passed the seth told swamiji "you are talking about Gautam Budha, Mahavir swami, vairagya about Geeta but I have grown up children, they have to get married, look after my business and you teaching them and giving pravachan on vairagya. If these children get vairagya by listening to your knowledge, they may leave the house and become sanyasi

Swamiji replied "Seth, vairagya is not so cheap, knowledge is not something to sell, it is highly valuable. You have to pay heavy price, you have to think and put your knowledge to stake. First of all these children don't pay attention to my satsang. Even if they listen, they leave it here on only, they don't take it with them. They are silently sitting here and listening to my pravachan because of your influence, they are scared of you so they forcefully sit here and hear my pravachan to respect you. Otherewise they would not sit here".

Knowledge about Almighty is not easy to grasp, it is not a game,it is not any drama and it is not something that you can put in your pocket. If you know the value, you will easily understand and accept it but if you feel it is waste, you will find it very difficult to gain spiritual knowledge