Is there a distinction between knowledge and understanding?
Knowledge is conceptual and understanding is existential. J Krishnamurti used to say that the word is not the thing and the description is not the described. Understanding happens through the evolution of ‘being’. When there is not love, kindness, and compassion, then if you read the scriptures you gain only knowledge and not understanding. When you read the scripture it comes to you as ‘knowledge’ and when your ‘being’ evolves it comes to you as understanding.
