Most people who criticize others or comment on
the work done by the others do not have an opinion of their own. They have had
a limited opportunity to learn things from people with half knowledge; they
half understood the things they came to know; they, and the people from whom
they learned a few things, never attempted to verify the correctness of their
knowledge through rigorous experimentations. They have the tradition of
developing and circulating the half knowledge or their own confusions about the
truth of the things.
To
know or learn a few things we must approach the people who work silently and
have little time to teach you. We may seek an opportunity to work with them
silently according to their methods and to fulfill their objectives. During the
course of action if you find that the people you were working with were also
keen to learn from you, you should feel assured that you have got the right
opportunity to learn.
Knowledge
is generally explored and developed silently, without any noise, and without
inviting many others (particularly those who are not the actual beneficiary of
that knowledge) to offer opinions and suggestions. In matters of creation of
knowledge those who are not on the job are also not ‘with the job’; they are
aliens whose opinions may be collected and recorded in academic interests,
maybe, for some use in the future at the time of review and analysis, but never
immediately during the course of the exploratory action.
Critics
should have a very limited importance in our scheme of things, if we are
sincere about exploring the truth of the things. Those who surround themselves
with many advisers and critics are demonstrative; their exploratory efforts are
a sham and do not serve any purpose.
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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