Ego is Just Being Unnatural - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The highest knowledge is called the end of knowledge. Vedanta means the end of knowledge. It is the same with truth as with beauty. Truth cannot be practiced. It can be cognized, recognized, felt, experienced and lived moment to moment. Observing the unpredictability of live, the unpredictability of the world creates an awe in you, a sense of wonder in you.

Every person on this earth feels helpless, completely handi-capped, some time or the other. Whether he is John F Kennedy, mahatma Gandhi or someone on the street, everyone feels helplessness, feels that things are ruled by something other than what one can logically conceive.

Whatever possible conclusions we make, we still feel things happen beyond that.

When we feel helpless, we tend to become frustrated and cynical. This is the junction point.

The feeling of helplessness can turn into prayer or it can turn into frustration. Divinity can be perceived in the prayerfulness. In frustration we become more and more disheartened, dejected. Do you see that?

© "Deccan Chronicle" (dated August 28, 2002). Reprinted with permission.

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