बुद्धिः तथा प्रबुद्धः - Intellect and Enlightened
Only intelligent persons can become an intellect. Intellectuals are people who have lot of information stored in their brain. Buddhijivi is an intellectual or an intelligent person, a knowledgeable person but not an Enlightened Being. A person who has used his mind throughout his life. A mindy person. A knowledgeable person. He is a person who has accumulated a lot of degrees to his credit. He is person who has a lot of suffix to his name, a lot of credentials attached to his name. He can become a teacher, professor, or any other positions in life where he shares his stored knowledge from his brain. He need not be an experienced person, he is just a person with theories, which may or may not be practical. It is like this, he might have read about or gathered information on every thing about swimming or cycling, he might have written a thesis on it, but neither he knows swimming or cycling as he has not had firsthand experience about both of these. He is not an involved person, he is just superficial.
Buddhijivi or an intellectual person is an information store house or library who can share all the information he has stored in his data bank or his mind. What he has gathered throughout his life may not be his personal experience, he has just collected everything and is carrying it with him. An intellect always wants to know something more than the others and he wants to be the first one who has to know about it.
Becoming an intellect gives you a feeling that you know something which others do not. You start getting a feeling that you are the most knowledgeable person in this world having used much of your space in your brain. It can only make you egoistic in life. You have lost the ability to connect with everybody or ordinary people because you start feeling that you are way superior and over literate, oozing with knowledge so you cannot align with less knowledgeable persons or illiterates. When you think that you know everything then you close your doors, you will know nothing. Unknown is always more than the known. We come as unknown and we depart as unknown having had just a glimpse of what we come to know throughout our life.
A wise person does not think of anything about himself, he is a man of feeling. Thinking is from one body part, the mind, whereas feeling is from the whole body. His wisdom shows in his being and in his quality of life. His character and behavior shows off his wiseness. He never says or claims that he knows everything. He will always say that he is in conscious state being present all that time and ready to know as life unfolds day in and day out throughout his life. He will speak out of his experience not through his knowledge bank, mind. Whatever he utters are his personal experience not from any book or borrowed thing. He only talks of his experiences in his life both good and bad part of it. A wise man is a man of feeling and whatever he utters it comes out with a touch of feeling and will have a effect and consequences.
An Enlightened Being may not have any degree at all. Unless an intellect dilutes his academic qualifications he cannot become a wise or Enlightened Being at all in his life. Life is an experience and unless you are alive and be in the present you will not get enlightened about anything in life. You do not need a degree from any university or school to become Enlightened. The whole universe is your university and the word university is derived from universe. Universe is bigger than any universities in this world. You get Enlightened by living in the present and being in conscious state all the time. You become a witness to all the happening in the world around you, which you observe and absorb in your being and which becomes a part of your whole body including each and every cell in your body. Any experience is a whole body experience, not just mind experience. Mind can only visualize, all other body parts can experience it and become a pro in it out of experience.
Living is an experience and this experience will transform you into an Enlightened Being. An Enlightened Being is rich in experience. He shares his experience not his knowledge in his life.
Spirituality is a path to understand our true nature and know ourselves inside out fully. It is a path of realization of what we already are and making you realize that you need not become anything else or anybody else other than what you true nature is and you are 100% okay. Spirituality is a path of realization.
Embrace Spirituality and transform your self into an Enlightened Being
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