A boy asked his teacher, “Sir! What should I do to become great?”
The teacher said, “Do you really aspire to become great?”
“Yes sir!”
“Will you do as I tell you to?”
“I will.”
“How will you do that?”
“I will find the way?”
The teacher said, “Very well; then you can become great. One who has the inquisitiveness will find the greatest secrets out of ordinary events and one bereft of that will ignore even visible secrets.”
An inquisitive person has a penetrative vision; he is keen to find. He examines all phenomena minutely; reflects over them. A keen sense of inquiry makes one energetic and diligent in work. Devoid of a sense of inquiry, man is slothful, sloppy and small.
Those who desire the world or inquire into the physical world, they only get things of the world. Inquiring into the phenomenal world men like Einstein became world famous scientists. The same senses of inquiry was the secret behind the name and fame Newton earned. The lid on a pot of boiling liquid, lifted up by the pressure of steam, makes no difference to an ordinary cook but those with a keen senses of inquiry took a clue form the tendency of the stem to generate pressure and invented the boiler and the steam engine that runs huge locomotives. An apple falling on the earth is nothing noteworthy for a gardener but the inquiring ones espied in it the law of gravitation at work and used it for many a great achievement in the field of science. The spirit of inquiry when applied to the physical world creates marvels in the physical world; in the same way when applied to the yogic world, it works wonders in that world. In the world of devotion too, one with the sense of inquiry gets greatly elevated.
All wonderful achievements whether in the material world, in the field of religion or in that of philosophy have been made through enquiries. Therefore, if you want elevate your life, be inquisitive; inquire into the truth. If you lack the sense of inquiry, be alert; meditate and cultivate this sense in you.
There are twenty or thirty or fifty students in a class but four-five of them turn out to be brilliant. The teachers are same, the books are same; but the students, who listen attentively, make inquiries, ask questions and find out answers, make their parents and their schools proud. Those, on the other hand, who make fun during studies, loiter away, return late after the recess; such students get low makes and after the recess; such students get low marks and after getting out of the school pull the cart of life with great difficulty and die unnoticed and unsung. So, be inquisitive. When the teacher is explaining things, listen attentively. If you are not able to understand what is taught, don’t rush to ask questions; try to find out the answers yourself. If you can’t solve a riddle, only then should you ask a fellow student or the teacher.
Ask yourself the ‘whys’ and ‘whys’ of things and try to understand what is being said.
Someone comes and says, ‘Bapuji! My intellect is not all that sharp.’
Don’t worry if you are low intellect. Whatever your deficiencies, the solution to it is hidden in you. Rub the plams of your hands against teach other and assert, ‘I have in my hands the power to awaken my sense of inquiry, my memory and my well being. Hari Om… Hari Om… Hari Om My memory and my sense of inquiry be awakened. Hari Om… Hari Om… Hari Om My memory and my sense of inquiry be awakened. Hari Om… Hari Om… Hari Om In this way, remember the Lord ad then touch with your palms each one of the spots where you have deficiencies. This will spots where you have deficiencies. This will be of immense benefit to you.
If you fall ill, you need a sense of inquiry. If you didn’t sleep in the night before, you should analyse why you didn’t and you need a sense of inquiry. If you are in the habit of getting up
Late, you need a sense of inquiry to inquire why. If you are not able to remember things, why is it so? If you are weak, why are you weak? In short, you need the help of the god of inquisitiveness every where and in every situation. If one is bereft of sense of inquiry, even Lord Brahma instruction him will be of no avail.
Today everywhere people are out to exploit you; they want to suck you dry. When you go to the market, every salesman, every shop owner wants you to buy from him. He will try to give you less quantity and inferior goods and to extract the maximum price. If possible, he will not mind weighting short. While driving, if you are not careful, people will overtake you. The traffic light on the crossing is red. You have to stop short of the crossing; somebody will come from behind and stand ahead of you. He will go ahead of you. Everybody is vying to overtake you. If you are not inquisitive, quick and alert, you will lag behind in the matter of intellectual prowess, travel, serving others, and also salvation. You should be equipped with a sense of inquiry. Why should you lag behind? Why should you be outperformed? People get beaten because of their inaptness, because of lacking a sense of inquiry, because they loose their temper at things big and small. You must not get agitated; neither should you be a coward, a fool, one devoid of sense of inquiry like a piece of stone. You should you be a coward, a fool, one devoid of sense of inquiry like a piece of stone. You should be wise, alert, and inquisitive and on top of it if you learn the art of taking a dip in the divinity within before making all decisions, you shall attain to immense good, to supreme Beatitude.
The path of knowledge is recommended for the one who feels that the jiva and the world are illusory. The path of yoga and the path of devotion are for those who feel that the world is real.
If you harbour the shades of attachment and hatred deep within your psyche, you cannot achieve perfection on the path of knowledge, even after impending the mind successfully and developing discrimination between the sentient and the insentient.
The gross desires are eliminated by keeping in solitude. The subtle desires observed in dreams are removed by meditation on God and by nurturing Santly wishes.
Sanyasa means renouncing those actions that break our yoga of tranquility. One does not become a sanyasin merely by wearing saffron clothes. Gargi, vyaadh and vashishthaji ect. Did not wear saffron clothes, yet they were Enlightened Beings.
The teacher said, “Do you really aspire to become great?”
“Yes sir!”
“Will you do as I tell you to?”
“I will.”
“How will you do that?”
“I will find the way?”
The teacher said, “Very well; then you can become great. One who has the inquisitiveness will find the greatest secrets out of ordinary events and one bereft of that will ignore even visible secrets.”
An inquisitive person has a penetrative vision; he is keen to find. He examines all phenomena minutely; reflects over them. A keen sense of inquiry makes one energetic and diligent in work. Devoid of a sense of inquiry, man is slothful, sloppy and small.
Those who desire the world or inquire into the physical world, they only get things of the world. Inquiring into the phenomenal world men like Einstein became world famous scientists. The same senses of inquiry was the secret behind the name and fame Newton earned. The lid on a pot of boiling liquid, lifted up by the pressure of steam, makes no difference to an ordinary cook but those with a keen senses of inquiry took a clue form the tendency of the stem to generate pressure and invented the boiler and the steam engine that runs huge locomotives. An apple falling on the earth is nothing noteworthy for a gardener but the inquiring ones espied in it the law of gravitation at work and used it for many a great achievement in the field of science. The spirit of inquiry when applied to the physical world creates marvels in the physical world; in the same way when applied to the yogic world, it works wonders in that world. In the world of devotion too, one with the sense of inquiry gets greatly elevated.
All wonderful achievements whether in the material world, in the field of religion or in that of philosophy have been made through enquiries. Therefore, if you want elevate your life, be inquisitive; inquire into the truth. If you lack the sense of inquiry, be alert; meditate and cultivate this sense in you.
There are twenty or thirty or fifty students in a class but four-five of them turn out to be brilliant. The teachers are same, the books are same; but the students, who listen attentively, make inquiries, ask questions and find out answers, make their parents and their schools proud. Those, on the other hand, who make fun during studies, loiter away, return late after the recess; such students get low makes and after the recess; such students get low marks and after getting out of the school pull the cart of life with great difficulty and die unnoticed and unsung. So, be inquisitive. When the teacher is explaining things, listen attentively. If you are not able to understand what is taught, don’t rush to ask questions; try to find out the answers yourself. If you can’t solve a riddle, only then should you ask a fellow student or the teacher.
Ask yourself the ‘whys’ and ‘whys’ of things and try to understand what is being said.
Someone comes and says, ‘Bapuji! My intellect is not all that sharp.’
Don’t worry if you are low intellect. Whatever your deficiencies, the solution to it is hidden in you. Rub the plams of your hands against teach other and assert, ‘I have in my hands the power to awaken my sense of inquiry, my memory and my well being. Hari Om… Hari Om… Hari Om My memory and my sense of inquiry be awakened. Hari Om… Hari Om… Hari Om My memory and my sense of inquiry be awakened. Hari Om… Hari Om… Hari Om In this way, remember the Lord ad then touch with your palms each one of the spots where you have deficiencies. This will spots where you have deficiencies. This will be of immense benefit to you.
If you fall ill, you need a sense of inquiry. If you didn’t sleep in the night before, you should analyse why you didn’t and you need a sense of inquiry. If you are in the habit of getting up
Late, you need a sense of inquiry to inquire why. If you are not able to remember things, why is it so? If you are weak, why are you weak? In short, you need the help of the god of inquisitiveness every where and in every situation. If one is bereft of sense of inquiry, even Lord Brahma instruction him will be of no avail.
Today everywhere people are out to exploit you; they want to suck you dry. When you go to the market, every salesman, every shop owner wants you to buy from him. He will try to give you less quantity and inferior goods and to extract the maximum price. If possible, he will not mind weighting short. While driving, if you are not careful, people will overtake you. The traffic light on the crossing is red. You have to stop short of the crossing; somebody will come from behind and stand ahead of you. He will go ahead of you. Everybody is vying to overtake you. If you are not inquisitive, quick and alert, you will lag behind in the matter of intellectual prowess, travel, serving others, and also salvation. You should be equipped with a sense of inquiry. Why should you lag behind? Why should you be outperformed? People get beaten because of their inaptness, because of lacking a sense of inquiry, because they loose their temper at things big and small. You must not get agitated; neither should you be a coward, a fool, one devoid of sense of inquiry like a piece of stone. You should you be a coward, a fool, one devoid of sense of inquiry like a piece of stone. You should be wise, alert, and inquisitive and on top of it if you learn the art of taking a dip in the divinity within before making all decisions, you shall attain to immense good, to supreme Beatitude.
The path of knowledge is recommended for the one who feels that the jiva and the world are illusory. The path of yoga and the path of devotion are for those who feel that the world is real.
If you harbour the shades of attachment and hatred deep within your psyche, you cannot achieve perfection on the path of knowledge, even after impending the mind successfully and developing discrimination between the sentient and the insentient.
The gross desires are eliminated by keeping in solitude. The subtle desires observed in dreams are removed by meditation on God and by nurturing Santly wishes.
Sanyasa means renouncing those actions that break our yoga of tranquility. One does not become a sanyasin merely by wearing saffron clothes. Gargi, vyaadh and vashishthaji ect. Did not wear saffron clothes, yet they were Enlightened Beings.
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