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The whole purpose of gaining wisdom is to become wise. Wisdom tooth/teeth might

fall apart, but not a wise man! It is wise to be wise and it is equally dumb to be dumb!

Is rigorous knowledge about one particular discipline and rigidimplementation of the same all about wisdom?

When sight is what man is content about, insight will almost make himcomplacent! Is insight all about wisdom?

Common sense in common people at common times is so uncommon, yet, iscommon sense all about wisdom?

Is capability to understand and ability to experience the subtleties of onesown unique individuality and also the universal consciousness all about

wisdom?

Rich blend and a richer integration of rigorous knowledge, insight, commonsense,

understanding and experiencing the subtleties of ones ownunique individuality and also theuniversal consciousness, backed with the harmonious application of the same without

deviating from the standard whatsoever, is wisdom according to me.

But how wisdom becomes embodied into a being? Is there anything which acts as a

propellant that flows as if in a channel into the internal mechanism of the beings system that

further allows internalization of the wisdom? Well, there can be no mythical thought than

this!

Wisdom is neither supernatural nor magical. It begins at an external or the global

ecosystem and ends at an internal or the individual ecosystem. Its aeonian connection withnature makes it natural.

Wisdom might be natural, but it comes hard way, by a person being defiant to his/her

natural instincts. Leading an instinctive life and also life based on faith is hardwired into our

genes. But, it is only when righteous faith overpowers instincts, wisdom dawns and freedom

falls into place.

What are instincts and why are they to be overmastered? Instincts as per Indian

scriptures are four, viz., hunger, sleep, sex and fear. If one strikes a chord with the depiction

of human beings in the words of Socrates- Human beings are social animals; it is probably

because the above mentioned four instincts are the commonalities that we share with animals.

Probably, he has meant, animals living in society are human beings! Personally, I disagree

with Socrates and have my own way of defining a human being in a context in the near

future.

However, what should aid us in knowing the gravity of overwhelming these instincts

is probably the fact that, these four instincts have vast potential in diabolically minting more

money than any other industry! Just call upon mentally once, these industries- Hotel as an

industry, Medications in many ways for people who are deprived of sleep or hospitals in

general as an industry, Pornography as a work of evil industries or call it respectfully as awork of connoisseur industries or acts of industrious prostitutes and their ardent service

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unique possessions. Such a state tardily moves them towards the process of deterioration and

may be even towards a psychologically ill state called depression. Such tendencies if not

curbed can outgrow them, to finally overpower them to a null state of existence.

Youth of the present world especially, have to be taught this discernment to know

what is bad about being influenced and what is good about being inspired! One hour of

lecture from a world renowned guitarist can shake the inner conviction the child has

developed about being a physician or a physicist. This is influence! An hour lecture from a

famous football player can make athletes of a cricket coaching centre feel deprived of right

motivation to have started with football coaching from the beginning days. This is the evil of

influence! This loose inner conviction and feeble faith in themselves, has massacred the

talented chunks of adolescents across the globe. The above mentioned influences have at least

an underlying ability to be inspiring, but what about those exceedingly, intensifying,

negatively influential programs that appear on the idiot box?

Well, if we now relook at the question what freedom is exactly man behind,

(especially the adult) the answer speculatively would be hidden, in an incomplete growth

from the beginning. As in, nurturing something other than his/her strengths and finally find

something for livelihood rather than truly living by his/her strengths. It would also be,

hypothetically, that his faith or belief system and inner conviction is not strengthened from

within. It would also be loose moral system or an extremely agitating inner struggle against

his own realities of life, which is further hindering his normal operations of life. Such seekers

are in a very perplexing state of life where they have been unknowingly and justly justifying

the injustice they have committed towards their own life! Well, the reality of life is to find

the real identity.

Undoubtedly, all inadvertently, move initially on the path of sating their basic

instincts called hunger, sleep, sex and fear. When this becomes the primary objective of life,

life becomes incomplete and the person becomes mediocre. Driven by four instincts, if one,

all the time is preoccupied in feeding them by hook or crook, he sees a dip and total decline

in lifes quality.Unvaryingly, if one contemplates on the four directly or indirectly, the vision

of a consummate life and other lofty things of life slowly diminish and life comes to a naught.

Hope this amount of substantiation is adequate in proving the scriptures most significant

insight- controlling ones own senses and transcending instincts.

Before winding up, an analogy in the form of a practical solution, as provided by

Krishna in his Bhagavad-Gita would be culled out as it is to demonstrate how ones real

identity can be identified.

Chariot is the body. Reins are the mind. Horses are the sense organs. Path is the

objects for the sense organs to feed upon. Charioteer (Krishna) is the highest intellect. Arjuna

(pillion of a chariot) is self/consciousness of the body.

Symbolically this explicates how a body of a human being is controlled by the sense

organs and their desires found on the path of life journey. A wise man when he makes up hismind to control the sense organs decides to train the sense organs and make them realize what

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they actually have to do. This execution of freedom from the mind is borrowed from a more

rational aspect of the being called intellect. Intellect helps the mind to rationally go about

realizing the truth. It is when man sees the death of external influence; he sees the body, mind

and souls internal confluence! This is true awakening of the Arjuna in you!

Let the bias towards Indian scriptures unveil and let the sense prevail!