What is the difference between a question and wonder?

What is the difference between a question and wonder? For a question we seek an answer, in wonder we don't seek an answer. A question is related to sorrow; wonder is related to joy. 

No one ever asks, 'Why am I happy?' When we become miserable we ask, 'Why has this misery come to me?' No one ever questions why there is So much beauty in the world, in creation. But when there is dishonesty?' 

This 'Why' comes from that area of our mind that seeks to know, that seeks Knowledgeability. Knowledgeability is labeling things. I don't know what I am speaking. What you know you speak from your intellect, you speak from your knowledge. 

But the purpose of knowledge is to make you aware of how ignorant you are. The more you know, the more unknown remains. So, in fact, the unknown grows. What we don't know grows. 

We are born in ignorance. When we mature and we go through the process of acquiring knowledge, we again become ignorant. But there is this difference - this second "I don't know" becomes a beautiful "I don’t know". It is wonder. "Why this creation?” "I don't  know" "What is happening?" "I don't know".  

An ignorant person talks and he doesn't know what he says. So also an enlightened person talks and he doesn't know what he says. If he knows and talks, it is coming from limitation. If he doesn't know and talks, he allows the words to flow through. 

He's open. He remains available to that are of the self, the consciousness, from which the words will come. An enlightened person can speak on any subject which he doesn’t know. He can sit and talk, but only if he doesn't start thinking about it. 

If you ask an enlightened person to prepare a thesis, he would fail to do it. Kabir or St. Francis would be unable to write a thesis or to write a poem, but they could sit and let the poetry flow through. 

What you have known and you speak is stale. It is not fresh. But when you speak something that you don't know, it is something fresh, it is something new. It is the most creative thing. 

Talking about what you know may be creative, but definitely less creative than when you talk about something that you don't know. 

In that very moment that is being created, you allow yourself to be a doorway for the creative process to spring through you. We are all just doors.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji