Let s Stoke And Nurture The Human Intellect
For a long period of time there has been no awareness or endeavour by humans to develop the art of thinking. As a result the lives of people are based on groundless beliefs. And their beliefs rest on some absurd superstitions. Or mere assertions which bear no proof. And now they find it difficult to question their veracity. People must wake up; realise the need to develop, and strengthen the intellect. The process of thinking should have started from an early age. Havingfailed to do so, at least now, start the process. Develop theart of thinking. Follow it up with the study of the impeccable truths of life. Delve deep into the truths. Accept those that appeal to logic and reason. Apply them in practical living.Adopt this procedure all through life. It will enableyou to build your intellect. Albert Einstein had observed: Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Humans need a strong intellect to exercise the right choice of action in life. The world presents endless trials and tribulations. The human species alone is provided with intellect to fight against and surmount mundane challenges. All other species, devoid of intellect, are helpless victims of the rigours of the external world. A powerful intellect helps us overpower these onslaughts. But the role of the human intellect does not end there. The intellect has the unique capacity to even transcend the world and reach the ultimate state of spiritual Enlightenment. You must make good use of the intellect to attain this very purpose of human birth. Unaware of the dire need to build the intellect. people entertain themselves with merely reading others' periodicals and publications. They indulge in the mere length of study. Just poring over pages of literature, apathetic towards the message therein or its deeper implications if any. Rare indeed are the ones who go into the depth of study. Thus little is assimilated or absorbed by the readers. People have been educated like robots for generations. And have been traversing through life without knowing the meaning and purpose of it. The world abounds in personalities with one-sided development. Intelligence and no intellect. An example of one such person suffering from this human imbalance is a renowned scientist. He is an alcoholic and his liver is damaged. He is extremely short-tempered and his blood pressure has shot up. And he is stressed unableto face even the petty challengesworld. Just reflect over his stabrilliant scientist with profouknowledge of his subject. He hacquired abundant intelligendnever cared to develop his inteintellect has always remainedIt lacks the strength to handlefarious demands of the mind.craves for alcohol.His intellecpowerful enough to control thedesire. Hisfrail intellect is unacontrol the ravings of his mincOn the contrary, there are lupossessing awesome intellectshold their minds under perfecSome of them possess no acadqualification but academies a around them. It is time the world woke upurgent need to develop the inteOnly then can we save ourselvimpeding self-destruction andspiritual perfection
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Let s Stoke And Nurture The Human Intellect
For a long period of time there has been no awareness or endeavour by humans to develop the art of thinking. As a result the lives of people are based on groundless beliefs. And their beliefs rest on some absurd superstitions. Or mere assertions which bear no proof. And now they find it difficult to question their veracity. People must wake up; realise the need to develop, and strengthen the intellect. The process of thinking should have started from an early age. Havingfailed to do so, at least now, start the process. Develop theart of thinking. Follow it up with the study of the impeccable truths of life. Delve deep into the truths. Accept those that appeal to logic and reason. Apply them in practical living.Adopt this procedure all through life. It will enableyou to build your intellect. Albert Einstein had observed: Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Humans need a strong intellect to exercise the right choice of action in life. The world presents endless trials and tribulations. The human species alone is provided with intellect to fight against and surmount mundane challenges. All other species, devoid of intellect, are helpless victims of the rigours of the external world. A powerful intellect helps us overpower these onslaughts. But the role of the human intellect does not end there. The intellect has the unique capacity to even transcend the world and reach the ultimate state of spiritual Enlightenment. You must make good use of the intellect to attain this very purpose of human birth. Unaware of the dire need to build the intellect. people entertain themselves with merely reading others' periodicals and publications. They indulge in the mere length of study. Just poring over pages of literature, apathetic towards the message therein or its deeper implications if any. Rare indeed are the ones who go into the depth of study. Thus little is assimilated or absorbed by the readers. People have been educated like robots for generations. And have been traversing through life without knowing the meaning and purpose of it. The world abounds in personalities with one-sided development. Intelligence and no intellect. An example of one such person suffering from this human imbalance is a renowned scientist. He is an alcoholic and his liver is damaged. He is extremely short-tempered and his blood pressure has shot up. And he is stressed unableto face even the petty challengesworld. Just reflect over his stabrilliant scientist with profouknowledge of his subject. He hacquired abundant intelligendnever cared to develop his inteintellect has always remainedIt lacks the strength to handlefarious demands of the mind.craves for alcohol.His intellecpowerful enough to control thedesire. Hisfrail intellect is unacontrol the ravings of his mincOn the contrary, there are lupossessing awesome intellectshold their minds under perfecSome of them possess no acadqualification but academies a around them. It is time the world woke upurgent need to develop the inteOnly then can we save ourselvimpeding self-destruction andspiritual perfection
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Parthasarathy kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Swami Parthasarathy Speaking Tree and Times of India