No knowledge comes from outside

“The goal of mankind is knowledge. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.” 

This is a powerful affirmation from one of the greatest saints of our time, Swami Vivekananda. We may find it illogical as it is saying all knowledge come from within. How is it possible?  Isn’t it ridiculous to say doldrums of our wavering minds are mines of infinite knowledge? Aren’t our minds contain nothing but entropies derived out of our own worries?

But, Swami is proclaiming a truth.

The truth is that externalities are the result of projections from internal. Say for example, if a man want to build a house the basic ‘urge’ for a house sprouts primarily inside his mind. He is laying the foremost basement of the house on the fertile land of his mind. So an ‘external house’ constructed is a mere projection of his internal desire. Every desire first sprouts inside the mind; may be as a ‘concept’ and gets materialised outside as a ‘fact’.

Like wise, every human knowledge is dormant inside the human mind and will get materialised externally depending on mainly two things. One, when a man really desires. Two, when the time is appropriate.

Knowledge gets unveiled once the time and mind is matured enough. And on implemental level knowledge takes a form and get ‘externally’ expressed. Knowledge is always an ‘internal’ qualitative concept (for e.g. theory of relativity) and its external projection an ‘external’ quantitative fact (the atomic bomb).

The ‘source’ is the truth and the product its declaration.