An educated person is onw who learns to live in poverty while using knowledge to provide material affluence to the comparitively uneducated near and dear ones.
A learned person is one that knows that experience is nature's preferred tool for imparting education.
A Holy person is One that is both educated and learned and considers all creation near and dear.
Why is this emphasis on "poverty" in describing the educated and which does not figure in the other categories?
ReplyDeleteOr according to you all of them in their true meaning of the respective titles live in "poverty?
By the way my personal view of the word "poverty" (Dhaaridhriyam) is not restricted to "moolah" alone but is an omnibus term for paucity of money, education, and finally even knowledge/consciousness or "self realisation". When you talk of "dharidhriya naasanam" or destruction of poverty it actually should meanaccording to me destruction of "agyanam" and dawn of realization, and not merely relate to just acquiring of wealth. For the Holiest everything/every one are not only dear and near, they are all part of one Universal HIM.
Do I make sense?
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Vichu
There is no intended "emphasis" on poverty. The word is used merely to counter the usage of the term "material affluence".
ReplyDeleteMaterial affluence is the first direct consequence of "knowledge" and possibly a deterrent to spiritual progress.
Again, possibly an educated person somewhere knows this (the deterrence aspect) hence the need to transcend beyond both poverty and material affluence. This is the mark of the person's learning. A learning that comes from experience of life in general.
As the person evolves,he learns that an attempt to reduce dependence on the external (more commonly understood as a "preferrence for poverty" and possibly mistakenly so) is the way to experience the richness of the internal.
Thus, the path to holiness begins and continues forth as the transition is both personally comfortable and universally acceptable in the absence of material distinctions related to both wealth and poverty.
The "educated" then is the first milestone where a difference is cognised. The "learned" is the next milestone where the neutrality of nature in the matter of "choice" is understood.The last marker is possibly one where comfort with various states of existence is accepted without a judgemental stance.