Monday, 10 September 2018
Imbibe The Knowledge
The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET
By SENSEI SANDEEP DESAI
We are not born knowing how to live.
Knowledge comes with learning. To make the learning process a source of joy,
teachers need to believe that “to teach is to learn twice”.
Teaching T’ai Chi, I have come to realise
that people are receptive to criticism and advice much more than we believe
them to be. The resistance is to force when ‘knowledge’ is thrust on a student.
Knowledge has to be imbibed, not imposed. Hearts are like flowers; they remain
open to the softly falling dew, but close up in the violent downpour of rain.
To impart knowledge to someone, you need to
treat a person as he could be, and not as he is. You have to go over to where
he is standing, take him by the hand, metaphorically speaking, and then guide
him. You must create a state of mind that craves for knowledge, a mind that is
full of interest and wonder. By the same token, students who expect their
accomplishments to be acknowledged should not get discouraged by the teacher’s
lack of verbal reassurance. Rather, they should channel their disappointment
into a resolve to build an inner strength that does not require the approval of
others.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the
author's own.
Quote from the True Charm and Power
of Vedanta
One of the greatest dangers against which
an aspirant treading the difficult path of Karma-Yoga must be constantly on
guard, is pride , particularly the pride of virtue, resulting in intolerance of
the wekness of others. Even tolerance , according to Swami Vivekeananda is not
good enough for a Karma-Yogi ; since thee is always some element of patronage
in one who only tolerates , and patronage invariably means a kind of
superiority in the person who gives or helps. If the Karma-Yogi is, therefore,
really to serve man “in a spirit of worships”, his attitude must be that of
total acceptance, Christ had always greater condemnation for the “virtuous”
Pharises who prided himself on his righteousness than for the unfortunate sinner.
His utterance; “Judge no, that ye be not judged! sums up for all time the folly
of intolerance. Many a reformer, in his fanatical zeal to save the souls of others,
has ended up by becoming what William Blake called. “a fiend of Righteousness”
These then, are some of the main obstacles
that beset the path of Karma Yoga –perhaps the steepest , and the most
frequently lost, of the four Paths. This is inevitable because whereas the
Bhakta, the Jnani and the Raja Yogi may often be able to forget the world of
man, the Karma Yogi is constantly required to be “In the world but not of it”
But there is no need to despair; Provided the aspirant is-and continues till
the end to be –humble sincere, earnest and persevering , he will in good time,
by the grace of God, achieve the same result through unselfish work, that another
may obtain by following a different path.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a
doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation
on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they
argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been
misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I
agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you
are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a
lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th
Heaven moment of the week Ukraine no 7 scored a spot gola, in Saaf Nepal
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