Monday 31 August 2015

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but is a fire to be kindled.



The world is indeed replenished with immense creativity and charm and the human mind must never be restrained from imbibing it all. A famous Greek Scholar Plutarch once quoted, “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled” and in all proportions, this aphorism stands justified. 


The human mind is actually born to be great, not to run behind mediocrity, not to engage in trifles, not to think about worthless thing. It is a phenomenal machine that’s completely unique to the 7 billion people around the globe. Greatness is not any esoteric or elusive idea, that exists in just a few gifted individuals, but it actually subsists itself in the minds of us all and mind is also no less than any great elixir that has been allocated to the mankind. Our brain is the most robust weapon that we all have. 

Each and every time we are thinking about things, our mind goes on making new connection. It keeps adding on everything we are pondering on, it is the biggest storehouse of information around the world. Our mind is actually limitless. Its powers and brawniness is boundless. A normal human being uses only 10% of their brain but still goes on doing exceptional feats that nobody else could ever has even imagined.Our mind is in actually a forte that make us great. Our mind is unique in the whole world that’s why each and every single person existing on earth has different views regarding different matters, our mind decides whether the cup is half full or half empty, it all resides in our mind and hence mind can’t be quoted as an uncomplicated vessel but is only comparable to the burning fire that can burn all the hindrances and impediments in its ways in order to rise up ahead to the summit and be great.


The biggest problem with us all is the we let this fire being drowned out. Steve Jobs once said that we start taking things for granted because we are told that the world in which we are born is the way it is and we can’t do anything to change the world. Many of us therefore let this fire die. We just force ourselves to lose our greatness. Just look at a seven year old child. If you give him a toy, he would play with it and then would have a strong tendency to break the toy open in order to see how it actually world, this shows the child’s exceptional curiosity while on the other hand, as we grow older we just lose our curiosity, which is  actually the mother of change. Our so-called routines and our world have made this fire to be blown out. We have ourselves put on our mind so many restraints and hindrances on our mind that we are forcing it to just stop down.
Einstein once gave a very beautiful adage. He said,  “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing”. In this quote he is utmost right in all propositions. Our curiosity is something that makes us. We are good at things only about which we are curious, which we just lag out on things in which we are disinterested. Whenever the fire of curiosity vanishes out from our mind, we just stop thinking about things and when we stop thinking about them, we are nowhere in them. As we move on to the ladder of life, we transform this great fire of curiosity in actually a vessel in which we just fill, what the world wants us to fill and hence we just rush towards mediocrity. We all carry in our head this ingenious gift of God, but still history only reveres a few people. What separates us all is whether we slay that fire down or we stop it from being blown out and that’s what makes the complete difference. We are actually a product of our ideas, our beliefs and our curiosity. We all respect Einstein as the greatest scientist the world has ever seen but he himself said, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. I have no special ability; I just stick to my problems for a little longer”.  


Human mind is indeed the greatest fire that if kindled well could lead us to greatness, far beyond measure. Our deepest fears are not that we are powerless but our deepest fears are that we are powerful beyond measure. Our deepest worry is not that we have no strength but it is actually that we have immense strength. It all depends on maintaining the fire and strengths. No doubt we would face innumerable challenges, no doubt we would be dashed down to the ground. This world is actually not about rainbows and sunshine, the world is a nasty place that will beat you down to your knees. No matter how tough or great you are the world will beat you down and will let you permanently stick to ground if you let it to. We all may face problems, really big troubles but it is all about who never lets the fire to be blown about.  The human mind is actually a great fire which if kindled correctly could change the whole world and if made into a vessel may just die away in oblivion. 

The winners are actually those who don’t let this fire to go away and as Paulo Coelho, the famous Brazilian author has quoted, “Whenever we put our mind in something, whenever we dissolve away our fears, thoughts and memories about other things and concentrate on one particular thing, whenever we want something actually by mind and heart, believe me the whole world will conspire to help you achieve that thing….”

JAI HIND, JAI BAHRAT
JAI MA BHARTI

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