Namaste! Must give credit to PaulMaurice. You probably know more than what you're sharing. If I may share my tiny grain of knowledge... it's been said that what we know is equivalent to a handful of earth. But what we do not know, is as big as this Earth. Thus, this earning for knowledge has existed since the beginning of time...when the Snake tempted Adam to eat of the Fruit of Knowledge. Thus, the awakening of the Kundalini will ultimately lead you to True Knowledge. And when this Knowledge dawns, words become insignificant. So, ignorance manifests in 3 distinct stages: 1. Lack of information 2. Lack of understanding 3. Lack of experience. Knowlegde, on the other hand, is obtained through 1. Experience of others 2. Guided by a teacher & self-effort 3. Intuitive knowledge. Through Science, we learn from our relationship with the surroundings. And from Spirituality, we learn from our relationship with the internal or creator (paramatma/atma) or self. Secular knowledge relates to the external phenomenon whilst Spiritual knowledge relates to the inner phenomenon. The external phenomenon has its limits whilst the inner is limitless. And when this inner knowledge is revealed, its termed as Sruthi. And when this revealed knowledge is applied, its termed as Smrithi. From the navel of the un-manifest Brahman, (Nirguna) was born Brahma. (Synonymous to a mother-child relationship!). Seated on a lotus growing out of an ocean (rooted to infinite reality, upon which Brahma's personality exists). Water is the source of life and virtually more than 70% of creation is in aqueous phase. All human endeavor into space has always looked for 2 important elements (Water and Oxygen). From the pervasive sound energy "AUM" came the first bang of creation, commonly termed as the "Big Bang" Theory, and that spurt of energy has continuously given birth to all of God's Creation. (Created Energy never gets destroyed and the original source is pervasive in all its exchange of forms i.e. Original Source is prevalent and resplendent in all it's creation that is termed as Chaitanya (with consciousness). All boons and answers to life is revealed as if it is a gift of our hidden treasures, when we invoke you, oh Goddess Saraswati, in the beginning of this journey to the self.