“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.”
– A Native American proverb
What’s common to Newton, Kekule, and Archimedes? Each one of them made pioneering discoveries in their respective fields? Newton revealed why the apple fell from a tree, Kekule discovered the structure of Benzene and Archimedes invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape.
But did you know they had more in common?
They were each blessed with a sudden revelation, as if divine wisdom descended from a plane beyond their normal thinking and logical awareness. It was their ‘Eureka’ moment that made it possible.
Most evolved humans trust their intuition. It’s the hunch that guides them. And when that inner voice roars loud, they don’t doubt following it. Newton, Kekule, and Archimedes had entered the space of timelessness, an eternal realm that in the Vedas is called, satcitanananda existence, a platform of eternity, knowledge and bliss. It’s the platform of knowing without knowing in the conventional sense.
For lesser mortals it’s either their mind that runs riot or fear of the authority of someone else’s mind or trust in another’s guidance that determines their decisions. We forget our own friend inside of our hearts. Einstein summed up the present tragedy thus: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
We all reach a point in life when we need to do the right thing, or make a crucial decision, one that has to be our own and not the one imposed by others. A resolution that my conscience buys as its own, and a choice not determined by somebody else’s aggressive sale.
At such times we wrack our brains to get a solution, or desperately consult others. But if we keep our Vijnana maya kosha or the Wisdom or conscience body healthy, we’ll be able to tap the power of conscience driven actions. As Albert Einstein said, “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why?”
Simple ways to develop our wisdom body
To help the solution come to you, you need to ‘receive’ it. Just like to develop a healthy body, you may pick up the dumb-bells daily, to have a strong wisdom body we need to ‘exercise’ our conscience daily.
Spending some time alone in nature, writing journals, exercising, by doing things that you like to do, and by investing our emotions and intention on a particular issue at hand, we sharpen our guts. Simultaneously a spiritual practise of chanting and reading wisdom books in the reverential mood to ‘receive’, helps us tap this energy.To be continued….
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