Ignorance

Aum Sairam

Sri Sai Baba was the repository of knowledge that destroys ignorance.
Yet, Sri Sai Baba who personifies humility feigned ignorance to avoid
discussion or catching attention. Shri Hemadpant says that the true
Saints are like the Sun that destroys the darkness of ignorance.
Destroying ignorance is Jnana Expelling darkness means light. Sri Sai
Baba explains to Nanasaheb Chandorkar, a good student of Vedanta, that:
The Shishya [disciple] like the Sadguru is really embodiment of Jnana.
The disciple also is in fact of the same swarupa However, because of
his ignorance, he gets the impressions that "I am Jiva, a creature,
humble and poor. The Guru has to root out these offshoots of ignorance
and has to give upadesh or instruction.

The following are the instances of Ajnana.

1 - I am a Jiva (creature) - I am not God.
2 - Body is the soul (I am the body) - Not knowing, that body is not
the soul.
3 - God, world and Jiva are different - Not knowing that God, world and
Jiva are one.

It was the firm conviction of Sri Sai Baba that knowledge or Self
realization is not possible, unless there is the prior act of grinding
of all our impulses, desires, sins; and of the three gunas, viz.
Sattva, Rajas and Tamas; and the Ahamkara, which is so subtle and
therefore so difficult to be got rid of. Sri Sai devotees could define
ignorance as the state of mind that inhibits us to realize that God
[Sri Sai Baba], the world and us Jivas are all the same. We should
realize that humility and getting over our ahamkara [ego], impulses,
desires and sins by regularly reading Shri Sai Satcharitra with love,
faith and devotion would remove our ignorance, poverty and give us
knowledge, wealth and prosperity. Likewise, listening to Sadgurus [Sri
Sai Baba] and to His stories with undivided attention will destroy ignorance!

Allah Malik