Natural self development has two dimensions. The first factor is relevant and applicable knowledge. The second factor is actually applying that knowledge to work on our personal state. Some people think that spiritual matters are not rational i.e. we just need to believe. Knowledge and action go hand in hand. Knowledge which will be most beneficial for us to raise our spiritual state should be our priority. Insights from that type of knowledge will help us apply them to continually raise our spiritual state in a balanced manner and hence develop holistically.
Knowledge comes before implementation, as without true knowledge, our implementation will be unnatural and faulty. Correct knowledge is important. So the process of learning and implementation is continuous and we keep growing bottom up. There is so much knowledge out there. Where do we start? It depends on our context which is different from person to person, time to time and place to place. Beneficial knowledge is that knowledge which is most relevant for us to grow naturally at the stage we happen to be in. It can be spiritual knowledge or wordly knowledge. In fact, we do not differentiate the two as they are composite to the same holistic reality -- the invisible and the visible -- two sides of the same coin. We acquire them gradually and apply them naturally to keep growing holistically in all dimensions of self development. There are spiritual masters who have specialized in this process and there are specialists in every field of knowledge who have best practices. Such facilitators need to be sought to get insights to seek the right knowledge and implement it correctly based on insights. Once we benefit from the first facilitator who specializes in a certain area we learn from the next and keep developing. We should not be compelled to haste as doing the wrong thing can have great negative consequences, if we are not careful, so we must be vigilant for the good for all humanity. When we dedicate ourselves to this path, we can develop certainty in our path of learning and implementing beneficial knowledge and it transforms us internally and externally. As it transforms us naturally, it transforms our circle of influence and everything else. Overtime when we are engaged in the cycle of acquiring beneficial knowledge and implementing it, we graduate from believing in our system of self development in our heart and mind, to naturally inculcate graceful behavior as internal development affects the external. When a critical mass of people do this, it has a holistic effect on everything inside and outside ourselves, which might lead to a completely natural way of living, solving our problems at every level, bottom up. We need to be careful in this process in terms of two factors. We do not want to be those who do not acquire knowledge and follow our whims in terms of our behavior. Nor do we want to acquire knowledge and not implement it. Knowledge that is acquired that does not lead to our self development is not beneficial. So the balance between knowledge and its implementation needs to be optimized. We need to develop a sense of fear and hope, ie “piety” in religious parlance, in terms of not disrupting this critical balance for an imbalance in ourselves has implications for global disruption. The need for doing the right thing and personal accountability in terms of our final spiritual state, compels us to keep this balance till our final breath out of fear of disruption as well as the hope for the potential for the highest spiritual ascension. This makes us fly higher and higher. This is our motivation to overcome the hurdle of seeking correct knowledge based on the right framework and its proper implementation for the service of all humanity. We should not rush it nor be distracted to realize it well, God willing.
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