Human intellect cannot remain idle. It
needs some occupation. A well developed intellect is never comfortable in the
territory of the unknown. A human child interacts with the world to learn how
to live. A human being may think and conduct not only to know how to live, but
also to know why to live. The human mind, the seat of his emotions, may give a
definite direction to the exploratory, analytical and decisive aspects of human
intellect. If the man is not overwhelmed
by the multifarious capacities of his intellect and coercive power of his
emotions, as well as their limitations, he can make good use of these two to
lead a happy life and grow.
However, the human senses that are
always exposed to the worldly stimulants make the man a slave of his body,
senses, mind, intellect and Ahamkara (often referred to as his ‘ego’).
In such conditions the man suffers and his growth becomes stunted. Sometimes
things that are more dangerous occur. The man who enjoys the activities of his
body, senses, mind and intellect, starts believing that he can use these tools
to know the realities of life and explore the truth of things. He starts
depending on them, without learning as to how these tools should be used, to
obtain answers to all the questions that he may have. The man uses his tools
and arrives at the answers that he ‘likes’
to arrive at; that is, he finds only those answers that suit him emotionally
and can also convince him intellectually without pushing him out of his comfort
zone. Such answers he ‘proves’ analytically, using the capacity of his
analytical intellect that is heavily dependent on the assumptions made in the
process. If and when, the man experiments, he performs the dual role of the
experimenter as well as that of the subject of the experimenter. In the entire
process, the man does not want to know, he only tells the outside world that includes
him also, what he wanted to know.
The man must know that his body, his senses,
his mind and his intellect are like double edged weapons that can enslave him
as well as can make him free. The tools that the man possesses can act like the
policy maker, the executive and the lawmaker under full control of the man.
They can decide, perform and try to justify, but they can never become
embodiments of the ‘justice’. They can serve the cause of justice; they cannot
become the justice by themselves. The man must concentrate on finding where the
true justice lies and use his tools to serve the justice. If the man is not
careful, he will only come to know what he ‘wants’ to know ; and will never be
able to know what he must know.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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