Whenever
we hear someone questioning our thoughts, conduct and words; we do not pay
attention to what he says. We rise from our sleep and get busy in finding out
why he spoke what he spoke. We go through the motions of investigating into the
speaker’s antecedents, his background, his education, maybe his wife’s love
affair of the past and all that can be known about him. Ultimately, we weave a
story to dump him. We dump him because we want to bury all the questions he had
raised.
There is something about human intellect that is definitely
timid and impotent. It prevents the man to rectify his conduct. Rectifying the
mistakes of one’s past needs actions that may not be pleasing to his senses and
emotions; they may even cause some pain. There is something very strange about
the man’s mind-intellect-ego complex, which prompts the man to be much
concerned about ordinary cough & cold when he is on the way to committing
suicide.
The impotence of intellect is not a modern phenomenon.
Perhaps, it had ever been so. The only thing is that the modern man relies too
much on is his intellect; the intellect that is timid and is impotent. To
become courageous and fertile in his thinking the man has to give importance to
the worth of human life and the man’s honour.
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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