Any kind of ascension, any kind of wisdom or liberation requires a concerted effort. Want to know the real status of a person’s life? Just ask him how much has he invested in his self-development, inner development. How many years has he given? How much of his resources has he put into his own liberation? If he says, “No, I have never put time nor effort into liberation,” and still claims that he has understanding or wisdom, then he’s just bragging. Don’t take him seriously.
Wisdom and all higher order things in life will never come on their own. What is it that you experience on your own? You only experience hunger, sleep, lust, no? The moment you turn thirteen or fourteen, lust arises on its own. That’s what you experience without any effort or discipline. Correct? You don’t require to be disciplined or determined for your pubic hair to grow or your periods to start. So don’t say that wisdom too will start flowing in your mind on its own. That won’t happen.
This is the most ignored aspect of human life, especially in the contemporary world. We want to acquire all kinds of skills. We would enrol to a three-month course to learn a new language, a new technology, a new skill. But wisdom, we suppose, will come on its own.
Never sir, never! It won’t come on its own.We hate to hear that we are foolish by default. But then, that’s what we are.
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