To become wise,you need not to be a literate

Wisdom cannot be acquired easily and is not measured by the time span of your life, i.e. how long you survive and your erudition. Irrespective of age, span of the life, academic qualification, rich inheritance, one may be very wise at any given point of his life. At the same time, one  may possess all the above characteristics, but still may not be wise. How you utilize your power of common sense, your inquisitiveness, your acumen of questioning to extract answers from the other person and your learning ability, it all depend on your perceptivity to differentiate between the states of wise and ignorant.   Your academic brilliance necessarily may not make you a powerful and wise man.  For example, if your mind is as fresh as the rays of the sun or the Ganges water, then you can learn anything to come out of the darkness of ignorance.  In fact, not to know a particular thing is not a crime. If you think creatively, you will find that wisdom is basically an application of your inquisitive mind in almost all the spheres of our life, which is new and fresh. It is inherent quality and we all have in abundance. But we do not use the same. We must ponder on these issues. What is holding our life?  How life is governed? How we face the ups and downs in our life and how we manage to control and beat the time of sufferings?  All these, which uphold our life, are termed as wisdom in a broader sense.

If you are ignorant and in the eyes of society, you lack  wisdom, you are not at all inferior, because psychologically, most of the ignorant people are very religious minded. The so-called intelligent people and the torch bearers of the society who like to be always famous or identified as the most powerful people, are not the people  of wisdom. You are only wise when you know how to entwine the old and primitive ideas and the latest developments, so as to make your and other lives more plausible. For example, a tree which has roots, deeply seated below the ground are old, but its shoots are relatively new. Our life must adapt this postulate and this is exactly the word “wisdom” interprets. The modern and the old saints exist; in the same way when the old and the new exist together, there is a cohesion of wisdom. The reason is that the ancient knowledge is mixed with the new ideas and theories, which ultimately gets transferred in a unique type of wisdom and people become wise. For example, when technological experiment results any invention, the scientists do not take respite. They continually review their inventions, remodel the same, study and review again and again. This is essential and this is one of the prime factors of our country’s rich Heritance of collective wisdom. We have not changed our pattern of thinking to forego the ancient cultures and traditions. Without deviating from those ancient traditions, we, of course, march past and make ourselves adapt to modern day’s requirement, which technology has opened matching with the theme of ancient creations. 

Despite all these explanations, we must search and introspect, what is meant by wisdom?  What makes us to become wise?  If we are not wise, what will happen?  Does it mean, we will not be prosperous at all?  Nobody likes to suffer.  Nobody wants pain.  Nobody wants to be upset.  But, still we suffer, we face pain and quite often, we become upset.  It is our lack of vision and our inability to identify the reasons, which makes us to pass through various causes of pain, sufferings and anxieties and so, vision makes our life more meaningful.  It connects us to the universal.  Your existence in this great world and many sensory gratifications that bring your enjoyment does not necessarily make you wise. The power of wisdom is to identify the real meaning and purpose of your life to identify the causes of existence and survival. The same needs to be utilized in the proper direction and manner for your blissful and ideal life. It has no direct connection with your academic qualification and the level of your literacy.

You can find many wise people, who are illiterate and have no basic qualification.  In fact, wise people may be less in the circles of literates. The wise people know how to talk with other people in a proper manner, how to keep harmony in society, how to manage their homes and finally, they are even ready to sacrifice without bothering their own comforts.  Wisdom is a great quality, which brings you cheerful, energetic and increases your desire to celebrate various occasions in life.  Ultimately, all these traits keep you healthy.  You will be full of laughter and you will be always optimistic to see the future in the light of positivity. To make you wiser and less ignorant, you need to be a positive thinker  and know how to propel your thought process for the benefits of the society at large. Why it is so?  Because, thought is the  security guard of your mind. Emotions are the most vulnerable  thieves in this world. And, they are more powerful than thoughts.  You may think that everything is in your control, you are managing well and you seem to be  happy.  But no sooner, you are engulfed with emotions, as if thieves burgle your house and ransack all the items therein; these emotions plunder your wisdom and trample your  good senses and ultimately they take away all your  positive thoughts and make you restless and upset. You became an imbecile and ignorant at that time.  Then you find that your emotions are much stronger than your thoughts.  Situations always dominate you.  You may like to see yourself as happy, but a sudden splash of emotions erupts and all your energy of happiness gets dissolved. 

For this reason, one has to work and lead life in different layers.  First is ecological binding where the body  commingles with the  pattern of breathing, because this is a vital link between the mind and the body. Second is the link between the mind and the thoughts and emotions.  Third is the connection between the mind and the spirit through which, you control your mind to drift away from all passions and immoral activities. All these layers are practiced and streamlined through the techniques of meditation and contemplative prayer.  After a period of profound practice, one will find the thought who is the security guard  of  the mind is propelled by his consciousness. By the time, all  the thoughts become completely subservient to the owner. During that phase of life, you are a complete wise man, irrespective of your background, heritage, literacy rate and countenance.