Outer Wisdom

Let your life be as deep as the ocean, but let it also be as wide as the sky.

It has been a long time since I have been losing interest in what I am doing as I have been thinking all the worldly knowledge I acquire is worthless when it come to liberation of the soul. But as usual my spiritual Guru’s writing solved the problem once again.

As the above mentioned line well explains how our inner life should have deep spiritual knowledge but our outer life again should be well equipped not only with the knowledge required for our survival but about other fields of wisdom and knowledge of this world. It would make the outer side of our life as wide as the sky giving us a better understanding of human character and the world thereof. Hence we should in no way ignore our daily activities as trivial things. Such things make us survive and our survival is critical for our liberation. Also such knowledge gives us better command over what we do and make good teacher out of us. The various fields of knowledge keep lesser room for negative thoughts and hence make us better human beings.

To be a complete human hence we will have to strengthen our roots on both sides. As we could see with all great spiritual leaders this is the truth. I will take the example of my spiritual guru Swami Vivekananda – the immense knowledge he had in various fields was incomparable. To make people understand our point we will have to speak their business language and get into their mind set. Without knowledge about various fields the task would be a difficult one. Even if we do not know anything about a specific field just showing mere interest in it would serve our purpose to a great extent. Hence a learning attitude towards our own work and also others’ would only help us take a big leap forward.

Last but not the least whatever we do there should be honesty in it, we should be doing it from our heart then only we will excel in it.

However we should keep one thing in our mind that it is for our survival and survival of the world thereof. Liberation can be attained by inner wisdom.

Thanks to my Lord and to my Guru.