MS10 - Knowledge & Clarity

Mohanji speaks on one of the major factors of life called knowledge. If our mind is cluttered with information, we lose clarity in life. ''How to keep your mind clutter-free?'', ''How to collect only the information that we need, assimilate them, and store them properly?'' This is today's "food for thought."

Transcript

Hello friends, This is Mohanji. Welcome to the podcast channel. Hope you are doing well and hope you like the podcast of the past. If you like it or if you do not like it, Do let us know. And also tell us what you like to hear so I can prepare those talks for you. Today we are talking about knowledge. A very important subject because our life is dependent on our knowledge. One of the major factors of life is knowledge. And where does knowledge come from? Knowledge comes from experience, Knowledge comes from information, Knowledge comes from other people as well. So, What knowledge is good for you? The knowledge which you have ascertained is good for you. Means it should not be assumptions. Assumptions are not good for you because you do not know whether it is real or not. You are just assuming because somebody whom you love told it, Somebody whom you trust told it, Etc. But we must always verify the source very clearly so that you do not get misled. It is very important. Information processed is knowledge and knowledge experienced is wisdom. So, Informations, There are plenty, We all know. Thousands of informations, Millions of informations. They just get bombarded out to us because we live in a world where there is no dearth of informations. Internet brings information, Televisions bring informations. Many are not so positive information but we process them because they are available. And lot of informations that we process are totally useless for us. We do not even need them but we collect them, We process them because they are available. They are just being given to us free. But we must always remember, If our mind is cluttered with information, We must be careful. If our mind is cluttered with information, What we lose is our clarity in life. So, To have clarity in life, The informations that we process, The knowledge that we assimilate should be simple and clear. And should have a proper space in our system. Means, We assimilate, We put in order the knowledge that we have and that will bring forth a good road map for life. Mr. Watson asked this question to Sherlock Holmes. How are you so intelligent? How do you know these things? And how do you know all these things so spontaneously? And you know what Sherlock Holmes said, I have no clutter in my brain. The informations that I have processed are kept clean. I can withdraw them as I like, Effortlessly. While in your case, You have put in all sorts of information. The soccer scores, Football scores, The cricket match scores or the various different politicians proposals and their opinions and stuff. And your mind is cluttered. That's why you can't retrieve what you really need at the right time. So, This is a very fundamental thing which to remember. Understand that we all have similar capacity in brain. Nobody has something higher or lower. But the utilization of that capacity depends on how well we have arranged the knowledge in our brain. That means we only collect the information that we need. We do not even look at the information we don't need. All things which are given free are not good information for you. We don't need them. So, Just discard them. We only collect what is needed. We assimilate them, Ascertain them, Making sure this is correct information and store them properly. So that we can retrieve them when we need. So, Knowledge is a very vital thing and wisdom is knowledge plus experience is wisdom. So, We must try to experience this knowledge. We must try to understand it in a practical way. So that we know that it's real. But all information we can't process or all the knowledge we can't experience. That's fine. But then it should be very close to reality. We must ascertain it's real. Many times we have failures in relationships or we fall out in relationships just because of one reason. That we take opinion of others and we take decisions based on that. So, First of all, When somebody talks about somebody, We should not take it as it is. We should not take it on face value. Because we do not know whether this is true information. We must ascertain it. Has this person who told you really experienced it? If they have experienced it, In what context have they experienced it? And in what mindset have they taken or formed this opinion which they are telling you? Because many times what seems to be may not be real. When you see a thing from your angle, It may have certain effect in you and you say it is so, That thing is so, That experience is like that. It may not hold water in real life because that might be wrong information. Various situations, Various court cases has been biased by such wrong information and the innocent people have been accused of wrong things. We have seen that in history. Sometimes people have been assassinated because of wrong opinions, Wrong understandings. Everything that everybody tells you may not be true. We form opinions about certain politicians because of certain news coverage, News in the television. Do we really know for sure that the television channel is not biased? We have to ascertain, We have to be clear, Otherwise we will have a problem in our life. Because if we accuse somebody wrongly, We also lose a lot in our integrity. Our integrity is compromised. Instead, We should look at everything objectively and if an information has to be processed, Make sure it has reality based on it. Never assume, But ascertain. Knowledge is a very important thing in life, Especially knowledge about the law of the country, Of the state. That is essential for us to lead our life. But knowledge of those nature, We do not even get involved until and unless we have to or there is a necessity. Once you enter into that state where you have to know the law for taking an action, We assimilate that law and then we use it. Then we tell somebody else about this law, You have authority, It is authentic. Because you have understood the law, You have used it well, Then when you say it is authentic. So, Authenticity is very important for integrity to be stable. Stable integrity, This is very important. For authenticity, A thing should be experienceable and you should have experienced it. So, Information processed become thoughts and thoughts experienced become wisdom. To convey the wisdom, It should be authentic because you should have actually felt it, Experienced it and you are able to tell it with clarity because you know it very well. I leave you with this thought. I put this thought on your plate, Process it at your time and wish you a great day ahead. Talk to you soon and till then, This is Mohanji signing off.

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