Things don’t often work the way we think. There
is always scope for making corrections in what we think and how we think.
When
we find that we are right seven times out of the ten, we tend to develop much confidence
in the way we think. That is precisely the time we become prone to making more ‘human
errors’ than what we are permitted to make.
It
is said that a true warrior has to release an arrow that has been pulled on his
bow. It, in fact, implies that a true warrior must refrain from taking out his
arrow until and unless, all the avenues of peaceful settlement of disputes have
been exhausted. The temptations of body, mind, intellect and ego exist in the
air we breathe. The man should not live like a stretched bow; he should live
like a bow that can be made use of for the protection of the truth.
Perhaps
only the God is settled in truth. The man can only make constant efforts to
reach where the truth lies. The doubt that one has not reached to the point
where the truth lies and the faith that the truth can be found if one continues
with his efforts must coexist in the human being who can be trusted upon.
When
we say ‘faith’, we refer to faith in the existence of the truth, not faith in
ourselves. We can have faith only on that part of us that has many doubts about
the activities of our senses, mind, intellect and ego.
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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