KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE
I know so much
And its really so little
And so much of what I know
Is not really knowledge
Half- knowledge and speculation
And outmoded information-
The world provides masses of material for learning each day
Even the smallest fraction of it
I do not know-
Once I would have felt it as a failure
My own massive ignorance
Now it is just what it necessarily is -
I know some things probably
Or at least I think I do
And all that I do not know
Does not need me to know it
In order for it to be learned by others-
I once thought I knew a lot
I now know I know very little
And will never know much-
However, I still am eager to learn
And want to know more
Even about myself-
And so- writing these lines now
May not be as useless as it may seem
Because I just learned something more about myself
That I really did not know before-
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
So much of knowledge may be so little as compared to the knowledge of universe and this creation.You have very brilliantly expressed your thought in this excellent poem.