The easiest and most appropriate way of
understanding things about life is looking inwards. There are things we can do
nothing about. For example, no one tells us that once born on this earth we
must live and do whatever we can do to live. This ‘inherent intelligence’ we
all possess.
Once
we start living, we are faced with many more questions, because we are
intelligent beings. What all we need to live, why at all we are born if we have
to die one day, why we are the way we are and not different, why we often experience pain and
is there anything we can do about not
experiencing that pain; are just a few of the questions that might cross our
mind. We soon become aware that we can venture into finding answers to such
question, thanks to the ‘essential intelligence’ that we possess. It can be
said that apart from a need of physical survival, because our ‘inherent
intelligence’; does not allow us to end our lives; we develop a need for
knowing how to get rid of our pains, that being the most disturbing feature of
our lives.
Our
‘essential intelligence’ is quite capable of carrying us much further in the
realm of what is not ordinarily known to us on the basis of what we observe,
experience, imagine, think about and analyze; provided we concentrate on issues
that offer many challenges to us exposing our inabilities. However, we are
easily tempted to under-use our ‘essential intelligence’ and get much involved with
issues that provide us temporary relief and overemphasize our abilities, even
overestimating it quite often.
Our
fears of the unknown and love for instant pleasures and comfort make us use a major
part of the ‘essential intelligence’ that we possess, as ‘trivial intelligence’
to obtain instant solutions relating to mundane problems. If we spend our entire
life on our efforts for glorifying it with the outcome of our ‘trivial
intelligence’ oblivious of the fact that it is our own cheap, lazy and vulgar
perception of our ‘essential intelligence’; we have no ground to complain about
the meaninglessness of our life.
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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