Why to seek Wisdom?
One of the stupid questions that popped up somewhere in my head, when I was a kid! (I was too small to know that there's a physical organ brain, and 2 other confusing entities, mind and me within π₯) : why should I ‘seek’ wisdom? ( The basis = there are elders all around me, all the time, to tell me what-next should I do π).
Question deepened as I grew a bit more π₯. Ravana seemed to be the most_knowlegeable guy in the history of mankind π. Not a single degree that he didn't acquire! An aircraft “pushpak” which never says “sorry, no seat available”. Music, literature, mysticism, magic, all forms of sciences(he placed the planets affecting horoscope of his son in its proper constellation at the child birth π₯…. much to the embarrassment of Saturn, the in-charge of past deeds!). Just that he failed only at Wisdom π. Oops! I felt “wisdom is not something that can be ‘sought’ as a boon!. Absence of wisdom is a ‘bane’ ππ
Slowly, but surely, I inched closer to this fuzzy thing called ‘wisdom’( not that I ‘began’ gathering the damn thing π… Just getting familiar with it, to the possible extent π).
Concept_based thinking seemed a bit more practical (practicable, in daily life π) than the vast thing called wisdom. Concept_based_Living posed a little difficulty ( mostly due to the hard_wired habit in my brain, which obeys a default_instruction of my_mind, about most of the routine life situations….. example: earthen dam popped up in some ancient brain, when the mind fell silent for a split second, and intellect dealt with the input data “hey! Lets do something about this flooding of river every rainy season, and stupidly watching people getting washed away from the banks of the river” . Wisdom in action??? Dunno yet ππ³).
I stopped chasing wisdom π
But, something bigger posed a problem π…. Spiritual Wisdom π…. Till then, worldly_wisdom kept me just_wondering (duniyadaari, was a Hindi word for functional wisdom, I thought. Not quite sure, thoughπ).
Spirit within is itself elusive. Only then to ‘think' of making it any_wiser π.
One thing seemed too reassuring π. No spiritual master was ever branded/alleged/labelled/etc as an Unwise guyπ. Another astounding thing I noticed was that spiritually wise guys ( enlightened guys) were not always highly ‘knowledge_abled’. They posed no threat to the world record created+held by Ravana’s knowledge ππ… ( During 1993 or so, a Master in spirituality told us “enlightened guys have the Capability to ‘know’ whatever they Like_to_know….and instantly too !... That ‘instantly’ bijness intrigued me ππ. Till i figured it out by myself π, but I lack courage to spell it out, since I lack the experience π. No point, misleading a reader).
Muscle memory of the mind is like a virtual software, that resides in the cache memory of the organ brain ( my own ‘cooked up’ imagination ππ… it seems to work inside me, without my consent π). Sustained+ intense spiritual practices helped me to break the mind's habitual muscle memory effect that deterred my spiritual progress!
A very bizarre experience ( rather experiences) emerged as a result of such sustained practices π. A real example, which the readers are going to find it difficult to ‘gulp down their throat’ , was my experience with a tool, a guided meditation called ‘death’. I didn't know whether I was participating in the meditation or merely listening to the audio tape, after its ½ way through it π₯. As soon as it was over, I rediscovered that I was squatting crosslegged, eyes closedπ, not participating. Wisdom, intellect, mind or brain, or even the muscle memory of any of these didn't help me to ‘know' what I was doing ππ₯…..
My fair guess is….. wisdom is a mere label(like the words ‘darkness, cold, humility etc), something to ‘refer’ to, when we are sensible enough to be at our peak levels of inclusiveness π, and the level of wisdom being relative to our experience of inclusiveness π. Concept based thinking, and living, seems to work for me at least. Awareness and alertness enhances the proximity to basic_life_concepts according to my intensity at itπ.
See if it seems to find any appeal π.
Until I bump into something wiser, I am going to remain stuck to what works for me π.
Unwisely yours,
psn(21 Oct 2026)
Tailpiece: my peak levels of stupidities churned out a wild imagination where,
I sought an unprecedented kind of boon :” Godjee, grant me Wisdom” π³π³π
God : “ idiot…π‘… you already are that. Just remove the layers which obfuscate it”
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