Posted by Diwakar Thakore on November 18, 1999 at 12:27:36:

In Reply to: Re: Curious about Knowledge Management posted by Vaughn P. Fox on September 23, 1999 at 23:16:38:

Hi Everybody,

I have been following the discussion for sometime now. I would like to share the concept of Knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge as seen throught the eyes of the noted Indian saint and world figure Swami Vivekananda.

Swamiji laid great emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge - both spirtual and secular. Knowledge is life, knowledge is light, knowledge is power and knowledge is divine.

It comes through three sources - practical experience, by reflection and by intuition. Scientific knowledge is based on observation, experimentation, verification and generalization. ordinary knowledge comes to us through reason, logic, and reflection. We advance a theory, a proposition, a hypothesis, a supposition, and reflect on it. It then becomes philosophic approach to know abstract things. But the highest knowledge comes to us through intuition, through inspiration. Aristocracy of knowledge comes to us from the first two methods of science and philosophy, but the sublimity of the soul is the result of intuitive power, which is the gift of God to man.

Knowledge should not remainas mere knowledge, but it should fructify in the horizon of human fellowship. knowledge confers timeless values ingrained in the rich experience of man. Knowledge has two sides, the external and the internal. External is science, and internal is ethics. Science gives us knowledge and skill, and ethics gives us wisdom and understanding. We need both of them inorder to discover unity.

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