Monday, 17th November 2014
Think twice before you judge others
One night there was a woman at airport who had to wait for several hours
before catching her next flight. While she waited she bought a book and a
packet of biscuits to spend the time. She looked for a place to sit and waited.
She went deep into her book. Suddenly she realised that there was a
young man sitting next to her who was stretching his hand and grabbing the
packet of biscuits lying between them. He started to eat them one by one.
Not wanting to make a fuss about it she decided to ignore him. She ate
the biscuits and watched the clock, while the young and shameless thief of
biscuits was also finishing them. The women started to get really angry at this
point. She thought “ It I was not such a god and educated person. I would have
taught him a lesson”.
When only one biscuit was left, she wondered what he was going to do.
With a smile, the young man grabbed the last biscuit and broke it in two. He
offered one half to the woman while he ate the other half . Briskly she took
the biscuit and thought. How uneducated! He did not even thank me ! She was
relieved to hear her flight announced.
She grabbed her bags and went towards the boarding gate. After boarding
the plane and nicely seated , she looked for here book which was nearly
finished by now.
While looking into her bag she was totally surprised to find her packet
of biscuits intact. If may biscuits were here, she thought feeling terribly,
those biscuits were his and he tried biscuits were his and his and he tried to
share them with me. She realised with pain, that if was she, who had been
uneducated and a thief, and not him.
How many times in our lives, that something happened in a certain way,
only to discover by us later that it was not true? How many times has our lack
of trust within us made us judge other people unfairly . that is why we have to
think twice before we judge others.
Better face a danger once than be always in fear.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Quote from the true Charm and Power of Vedanta
Yet even intuitive knowledge itself is not the ultimately search. Sooner
or later , we hesitate at the limits of rational and intuitive knowledge . our
faltering mind must then seek repose and cure in what it cannot know by the
Taoists,. This is really not knowledge in the ordinary sense. Knowledge, as we
understood it in the West, involves the selection of a certain event or quality
as the object of knowledge., sage-knowledge does not do so. It concerns an
understanding of what the East calls We or nonbeing. The We transcends events
and qualities, it has no shape, no time. As a result it cannot be the object of
ordinary knowledge. At the highest level of cognizance, the sage forgets
distinction between things. He lives in the silence of what remains in the
undifferentiable whole.
‘An important difference exists between. “having –no” knowledge and
having “no-knowledge” The former is merely a state of ignorance; the latter is
one of ultimate enlightenment and universal sensibilities . To the confirmed
rationalist, no-knowledge may appear to be the hugger muggery of the
mystagogue. Nevertheless, it is precisely its ineffability that lends force to
tis reality. The mysteries of nature appear to the mysteries only to those who
refuse to participate in them…..
With rational knowledge , the scientist is a spectator of nature. With
no-knowledge, he become a participant in nature. There is communion of
understandings…..
‘To plumb the depths of no-knowledge, one must rely on his own ineffable
awareness of the ineffable….
There has also been much groping in the west for this concept of
now-knowledge. It is unfortunate, however, that considerable effort has been
wasted in rationalising no –knowledge or opposing it competitively with
rational knowledge….
With rational knowledge, one is in tune with the scientific man; with
intuitive knowledge added , one is in tune with the total man; with no
knowledge added , one is in tune with nature.
IF HE EXIST
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