Ignorance should not be considered a negative quality. Indeed without it the world will be dull and without drive. Most of the greatest advances in the world came about because people with great minds understood their ignorance and went out looking for answers. When they did, sometimes they found answers that had little to do with the original question that set them going!
Our spiritual leaders also went out looking for the truth, because they were aware of their ignorance. Thus it is quite clear that searching for ignorance is as important as searching for the truth. Studying ignorance is as important as studying knowledge – the answers. Ignorance is explored by the clever questions – more importantly – the correct question. The wrong questions will only lead to more ignorance and waste our time.
Ignorance is the cause of all the problems we face, particularly spiritual ignorance.
