We can’t even think without the words, so
essential they have become in our lives. The one who can think deeply,
conceptualize and imagine more than the many others learns much more about many
words as compared to others. Those who have made many efforts to know about the
realities of life and truth of the things are known to have become men of a few
words, each word conveying the true and uniform meaning with no variations.
While
the words help us to think, communicate, imagine, understand and conceptualize;
they also influence our feelings, thoughts and the concepts we form to
understand things that are a little beyond our usual understanding and
thinking.
Swadhyaya
(English translation; ‘self-studies’)
has been popularly known as studies of great scriptures and books containing
useful knowledge. However, the word Swadhyaya is also accepted to mean a
close and careful study of one’s own nature, behavior, conduct and thoughts. Swadhyaya,
therefore, is a very useful tool for making sincere efforts for developing
one’s character in the right way. Carefully watching our own words and language
as to how we use them for expressing ourselves, understanding things, gathering
the right knowledge, initiating the right actions, reacting to the external
world and listening to our inner voice, etc. therefore, becomes very important
for us.
To
start with, a great importance must be given to completely get rid of the words
that do not mean anything to us. The words that we have nothing to do with,
hover around us and influence our thoughts and conduct adversely. For example,
it has been observed that if one allows some word that describes a shady
element of character or some undesirable behavioural trait, circulate around
him, which might not ever have been even in his vocabulary, the word gradually
starts influencing him adversely. We all know that all the languages make use
of very positive expressions of greetings, follow the practice of naming
children with the names of some God figures or using phrases in praise of the
God even in ordinary conversation. These practices have been evolved to
maintain good and positive impact on languages. However, we are rather careless
about the use of words that carry negative influence, even if we have no
intention of conveying anything negative in our communication. Use of positive
words, irrespective of whether they convey it or not, do not cause any harm;
but, the use of meaningless words or the words that are negative in their
impact must be avoided.
The
second step has to be to identify all such words that are superfluous in our
expressions and to eliminate them from all our conversation. If we practice
this thoroughly, we will find that our expressions will convey what we actually
want to convey. To our surprise, we will also find that in our enthusiasm of
eliminating negative words, we will also get rid of many of the negative
feeling that we carry with us without any reason. Our target has to be to
express ourselves meaningfully only.
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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