We
generally restrict ourselves to think about what all we can do, the manner in
which we can do a particular thing and how much we can do what we do. Sometimes,
we even go beyond such quantitative and quantitative assessments and delve into
philosophical issues, such as exploring why we do what we do.
The nature, or the God, has granted us a very superior
ability to think that to the best our knowledge is not possessed by any other
living being. But, do we have the ability to think as to how we can make use of
our various abilities to our benefit?
It is well known to us that many people who thought with
great concern about the benefit of the mankind tried to find answers to these
and similar questions, and also tried to practically verify their correctness
through trial and error. Such people who existed in past, or even in distant
past made others aware of their findings. We also know that those who gathered
such precious knowledge could make only partial use of it, thereby not being as
much benefited by the knowledge they, perhaps possessed, as they could have
been.
Assuming that the modern man has sufficiently good knowledge
about the history of mankind, we may, perhaps, take it for granted that
intellectual abilities of man have undergone quantitative and qualitative
change due to persistent and increasingly challenging circumstances. But, what
we cannot take for granted is that the modern man has developed a better
knowledge about what is good for the mankind, and that he has developed a better
intellectual ability to make use of his abilities to do good to himself as
compared to his ancestors.
Perhaps, we have to keep on thinking continually about what
is good for us, our abilities and our ability to think about our abilities, and
each time, fundamentally.
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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