On our pilgrimage to Self, know that
'I'-'me' is our Guru -- the Awareness
I always had a question
What is wisdom ?
Those wise men told me
-- It may come with age
but is more than worldly experience alone
-- It is Knowledge that cannot be taught
but can only be known by direct experience
-- It can be sensed around a wise person
As I earnestly moved
On the pilgrimage to Self
I persistently asked the wise one
How can I get wisdom ?
Those wise men told me
-- Be aware and remain Equanimous
to all happenings within you
On the pilgrimage to Self
I earnestly followed their instructions
Soon I started experiencing
The power that comes from wisdom
I experienced it and cognized it
Soon there arose a different Awareness
that comes from birth of Wisdom
Now I -- the Awareness
lovingly share with everyone
The secret of gaining wisdom
Now in our daily interactions
Arise many opportunities that reveal
The process of Right Perception that grant wisdom
People in their day-to-day interactions
are never in the present
Their mind is always moving
either in the past or future matters
People see their happenings
as past, present and future
But is there anything Real other than the present?
Creativity is the activity of wisdom
It arises and acts always in the present
Be aware, the solutions to all our problems
also lies in the present
Let us be aware and observe ourselves
Look at the pains we suffer, the loneliness encountered
The experiences of disappointment and distress
and all the attachments and aversions in life
Isn't each experience a doorway to gaining Wisdom?
But we lose the opportunity to see beyond all illusions
Is it not failure of wisdom to act in our life?
The solution, that pure Awareness presents
is a 'Software' for wisdom
Love for all naturally reveals Ways and Methods
So everyone may 'Learn to Observe'
In our daily interactions
See how witnessing can increase
our own capacity for Right Judgments
But instead of seeing Wisdom in operation
we choose to perceive the process as carping
Loosing in the process
opportunity for gaining wisdom
Do you See how Wrong Perception
causes the failure of wisdom?
In our daily life
When the problem is over and gone
the solution given Now appears to be meaningless
Wrong perception makes one say
"what's done, how can it be undone?"
At times in daily life
One is unable to see too far in the future
the effects of his own action Now
So all suggestions are bound to be ignored
as the problems are invisible right Now
We focus on the Event
I focus on the Process
Do we See how this difference in perception
causes the failure of wisdom?
For me
The process of living is a Continuum
For me
The past is active in the present
For me
The present is moving towards future
For us
Life is Discreet set of events
divided by past, present and future
And so we ignorantly search
for the Cause and Effect in the immediate events
It's our Wrong Perception and Attitude
That forms the base for all our actions
interpretations, and life's appraisal
Do you See why we ourselves become
the cause for the failure of wisdom?
With each experience of pain or negativity
Lies the opportunity
to challenge our Own Perception
This Act can open for us
the gate to acquire wisdom
The wise Cannot Prevent us
from our own learning and growing
The wise Cannot Prevent us
from letting our experiences influence us
Our experiences will move us
to the right or to the left
We will ask the Wise
this question or that
This is how in this Moment
We create
and open the reality of our Choice
Now, do you see
Why there is failure of wisdom to act in our life?
Instead of choosing the path of Awareness
We choose
Learning through ignorance
born out of our own fear, doubt, and lack of faith
We choose
Not to let wisdom act in our life
Choose now to walk
on the vertical Path of Clarity
The path of Conscious Action
and Creative life
Choose to learn from wisdom
It clears the relationship
between the personality and 'Self '
The knowledge you get
helps you on your pilgrimage to Self
Jinendra asks
Do you know where is Ignorance?
Do you know where is Knowledge?
Ignorance and Knowledge
are both in our mind
But is gaining of Wisdom
through our mind?
Is gaining of Wisdom
an act of Grace?
No one asks
No one is interested
But, if someone were to seek earnestly
He too would find
What those wise men discovered about Wisdom
-- It cannot be taught
you have to sense it around the wise man
-- It cannot come by itself with age or worldly
knowledge and experience
-- It has to be seeked
in earnest within yourself, in day-to-day life
-- To gain wisdom, Be Aware and remain Equanimous
to all happenings within you
Now do you see
Why you act the way you do?
You act the way you do
For you think ' i am right '
But you never choose to know
'Who am i?'
This i is the root cause
of failure of wisdom to act in our life
Be aware and perceive rightly
Then the words come alive and become meaningful
If not, they are like writings on water
Soon to disappear into meaninglessness!!
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