There are books and scriptures filled
with different ideas to get wisdom. The
bookish knowledge is not wisdom. It is simply accumulated garbage. By accumulating knowledge one will not get
wisdom. Truth has to be ascertained by seeker himself through sharp inquiry and
reasoning.
Only through the flame of wisdom
burns the ignorance. Intellectual
knowledge is egocentric whereas the self-knowledge is soul centric. All
sorts of theories and ideas go on accumulating, and then it becomes scripture. Gnani
burns accumulated knowledge through soul-centric reasoning.
The spiritual books and the
scriptures are filled just with information the information is not truth. No
matter how much ever one accumulates knowledge, wisdom cannot be attained. One can
go on gathering more and more knowledge, learn the scriptures by heart, become
parrots, memorize each and every sutra, let the complete scriptures be imprinted in one’s memory -- but still there will be no wisdom.
The wisdom is not accumulated
knowledge .Accumulated knowledge binds one instead it cannot give freedom or
Moksha. Wisdom is that which frees the SELF from ignorance. Knowing the truth of one’s true existence is
wisdom. Realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman brings freedom from
experiencing the illusion as reality.
Wisdom is that
which liberates the self from illusion. Pundits and yogis don't appear to be
liberated, they look enslaved. They talk about liberation but they don't look
free. They seem to be bound with a many fetters because they have accepted
something else as truth.
Orthodox people seem to be more
enslaved because they have stuck to their own beliefs. The saints and swamis are more stuck to the
belief than the truth. They are just blind followers of tradition. They cannot
move freely, they cannot sit freely, they cannot live freely. They are
prisoners of their code of conduct and restrictions. Thus they believe only in
what they preach. There is no scope for verification. One has to blindly accept
what they say as truth. Such authoritism will not yield truth.
Freedom is unknown inner longing. One
may achieve everything in the practical life within the practical world, but he
is still feels he is bound. Even after attaining everything in practical life, but
longing for freedom is not attained, the inner urge to know and realize the
truth will remain as a distant dream. Man
wants to be unbounded. It is man's
innermost longing, most secret longing where there are no limits, no barriers. It
is longing for moksha or liberation.
Sanskrit word Moksha is right word
for freedom or liberation. The word Moksha has its own uniqueness. Moksha
simply means a freedom so ultimate that it has no barrier; a freedom so pure it
is unlimited.
The first thing a Gnani does when
someone inquires. He observes attentively: from what base is this inquiry
arising? Whether the seeker is egocentric or he is soul centric. The Gnani’s is always on ultimate standpoint
and always contradictable. The seekers who are able to grasp it are
inwardly ready and they are at the right path. The people who are unable to
grasp still they are in elementary stage and they have to do still lot of
home-work.
Gnani is more does not show much interest
answering the seekers question, but he makes him think in a differently and
deeper way. He makes him think on his
own and without much intellectual spoon feeding. He doesn't bother much about what seeker
asks, he is more concerned guiding seeker to the mental journey.
Gnani knows -- nothing is left to be
known. He has reached; the mind has become clear, become calm. He has mentally
reached to the core of his existence; there is no ignorance, there is no
duality even in the midst of duality. The self is in awareness of itself.
A Gnani does not accumulate
knowledge; he simply has the capacity to know. Gnani has no pre-planned
structure for knowing. Many people who
think by observing silence or by using the language words they reach the state
of non-duality. Such physical based practice is of no use because by observing
silence or by using the language without the words the ignorance will not
vanish. They are trying to pretend they are formless and practicing on the base
of form. And they try to snub others as if they have reached the highest state
without inquiring the world that confronts them. There
is no cure for such mind-set. They are suffering from egoic syndrome.
