Jnani and child

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A JNANI AND A CHILD

Bhagavan Ramana used to say: Every person should be like a child.Then one can get Brahmananda.

Annamalai Swami asked: "Then what is the difference between a child and a Jnani?

Bhagavan Ramana replied:

A child does not know anything because of its pure ignorance.
A Jnani does know everything because of his pure wisdom.

Source: Sri Ramana Ninaivugal - Tamil - Annamalai Swami.

Knower of truth

If people provide the knower of inner truth
with comforts and luxuries,
he enjoys them and plays with them like a child .
He bears no outward mark of a holy man.
~ Sri Adi Shankaracharya

Happiness

D.: What is that higher happiness?        
M.: To be free from anxieties. Possessions create anxieties such as their safeguarding, their utilisation, etc. Non-possession does not bring any anxieties in its train. Therefore Siva resigned everything in favour of Vishnu and He himself went away happy. Divestment of possessions is the highest happiness.

Sadhu Arunachala (2010-07-01). Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi