The distinction between Western and Eastern knowledge here is not meant so much in a horizontal way as vertical.
The process of knowledge has three fundamental levels. Western knowledge reaches only the second level, and unfortunately only the outer one, therefore it is the reversible knowledge, which causes the devastation and suffering of people and nature. But even evil of suffering, like everything in universal reality, has its own beneficial effect.
The pictures show seven levels of the cognitive or research process (I.-VII.):
I. The first stage of knowledge is total ignorance of the blind mass (tamas-tamas).
II. The second stage is partial knowledge (tamas-rajas). This is how the exploited people think and act (the hosts).
III. The third stage is partial ignorance (rajas-tamas). This is how exploitative people think and act (the parasites).
IV. The fourth degree of knowledge is the usual high intelligence of many exceptional scholars, scientists, philosophers, experts, technologists, politicians and such others (rajas-satwa).
V. The fifth stage of knowledge is achieved by some brilliant Western scientists and geniuses (satwa-rajas). These persons are approaching to understand the conscious process of knowledge.
VI. The sixth stage of knowledge is complete knowledge, it is the enlightenment of sages, great spiritual reformers and similar ones (satwa-satwa). These persons practice and live a conscious process of knowledge. By Western people, this degree of intelligence is very rare.
VII. This stage of knowledge is the last and highest. There is no knowledge at all. It is the ignorance of ignorance, or absolute knowledge.
Nothing ends with the last level of knowledge, but rather begins.
Western scientific knowledge is based on understanding all the phenomena and information about the subject of knowledge, which is the universe here. It assumes that when all phenomena and information are known, then by their appreciation will be achieved the knowledge.
It is a rather stupid assumption, because the amount of phenomena and information can be infinite, and if only one of information is missing, knowledge will not be complete and therefore will by erroneous. Western scientists and technologists work in ignorance. Their work leads to ignorance and suffering.
The Eastern way of knowledge differs from the Western by not increasing the amount of information, but minimizing it. The Eastern way of knowledge lies in the absence of all information. It seems like a crazy idea to a Western scientist, but it’s not a idea.
The assumption that if one attains the highest degree of knowledge and that everything will be by this positively resolved, it is not realistic. On the contrary, then can the real problems occur, while the previous ones become completely irrelevant by this realization. It is not appropriate to rush, but to persistently strive for moral and motivational self-discipline. Be ordinary people. Improve conditions and do not strive for results. Let the higher dimensions of existence come by themselves.
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Higher levels of knowledge arise from negation of lower levels. It is the opposite of the process of ignorance that arose from the negation of higher levels of knowledge.
Find out in which level of knowledge you work. Find out how it works and how you work on it. Then you can deny this level by negation and you can find another.
Find out how it works and how you work on it. Then you can deny this level by negation and you can find another. Find out how it works and how you work on it. Then you can deny old level by negation, and you can find another one, however if the new level does not rise from the old one before.
Unconscious living at a given level of knowledge is merely a subconscious gathering of experience. From time to time, a being will understand this process and try to take control of it. Then we say that it discovers the universal doctrine of evolution (method). Before that, the being was a pun of subconscious forces.
The Western process of cognition is more or less spontaneous and has been affected by considerable ignorance. It is a process based on the subconscious premise in which a dead subject (scientist, observer) examines a dead object (universe). But manifested reality of both polar elements of the research process is relative and alive.
The Western process of cognition is more or less based on the duality of the object and the subject. But duality is relative and fluctuating. Duality is only the second stage of the three-stage process of knowledge of concentration, meditation and contemplation.
