Let nobody say that he or she is making the right choices in life because she does not know. We all know. We prefer to suppress the inner knowledge. It’s an inner conspiracy against ourselves, just because we want to continue enjoying certain privileges in life—certain physical privileges, material privileges, monetary privileges.
If you want to test whether people are living in ignorance or self-deception, there is a simple test: go and declare something to them that takes them towards the Truth. The moment you show the mirror to people, the moment you want to bring the Truth to people, they actually actively balk away. What does that tell? They knew very well in advance that they were living in the false.
Ignorance is just an ugly ploy against oneself. Nobody is really ignorant.
