“Jiivan Veda” : “Wisdom of Life”- by Ac. Cidrupananda Avt. Wisdom is not knowledge!!! Knowledge is very ordinary, mundane. It is information about the outside world, about the objective world. It is about things. The word “Veda” is beautiful; it means wisdom. The very word wisdom comes from “vid”; “vid” is the root of “veda” and also of “wisdom.” “Vid” means to know. The person who knows becomes free. Wisdom is the experience of your own being. It is self-knowledge, and for it to happen you have to learn a certain method to transcend the body because the body belongs to the outside. Knowledge is of no help at all in the inner world. You will have to know yourself. Unless you know yourself, all your beliefs will create a burden; they will not help you to be unburdened, they will not help you to be liberated. They will create new bondages, beautiful bondages. Knowledge is information… Wisdom is transformation. Wisdom is simply wisdom. It is truth. There is no possibility of there ever being an untrue wisdom. All knowledge is untrue: all wisdom is true. Knowledge is borrowed, hence it is untrue. It may have been true to the person who imparted it to you. The SADGURU is talking to his disciples, is talking wisdom, but the moment it reaches the disciples it becomes knowledge. Wisdom falls from its heights to the level of the listeners and becomes knowledge. Wisdom is intrinsically true because it is an Existential experience. It is not something known from others, it is not something gathered from the scriptures; it is something that grows in your heart. It is a growth, not an accumulation. It is experience, not information. Knowledge makes you learned: wisdom makes you innocent, pure. Knowledge is very ego-fulfilling, very ego-strengthening. The ego feeds on knowledge; it is the best tonic for the ego. But wisdom happens only when ego has disappeared; wisdom appears only on the death of the ego. The death of the ego is the birth of wisdom. Mind is interested in knowledge not in wisdom, because for wisdom you will have to create a space called no-mind. Knowledge depends on words. You can easily become knowledgeable by sitting in a library, but you cannot become wise that way. To become wise you will have to be in communion with a wise man ( a man who knows Himself). For knowledge all that is required of you is that you should be a student, that you should be full of questions, inquiries; you should be able to learn from scriptures, books, teachers, universities, libraries. Your memory becomes more and more rich, your biocomputer becomes full of information, but wisdom is not arrived at that way. Wisdom is more or less a love affair with Master, with a SadGuru. One has to be a disciple, not a student. The student keeps a distance from the Master. For him the Master is only a teacher; he is interested in the Master because of his teaching. A student is interested in the teaching, not in the being of the Master. The disciple is not interested in teaching because one thing he has come to understand: that knowledge can be taught but wisdom can only be caught. Wisdom is contagious. You have to be available to a Master, to HIS being. HE has become a fire, your candle of the heart is still unlit; if you become available to the fire of the Master you can also become a lit candle, you can also become aflame. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind: Sádhaná . Beware of learning; otherwise you may never become wise. To be knowledgeable is very easy; it is not risky, it is safe. To move into the dimension of wisdom is risky; it is going into the unknown, into the uncharted. Great courage is needed, guts are needed. And when you have tasted something of wisdom, knowledge looks so stupid, so utterly stupid. But if you have not tasted anything of wisdom, knowledge seems to be of tremendous value.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:22:41 +0000
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