I like the word 'familiarity'. If there is any word that gives meaning to the process of understanding, I think it is this word. I believe there is no new knowledge anywhere in this world. Its all just re-discovery and becoming familiar with things. Things or ideas exists all by itself. Its just the manifestation or "becoming familiar with" we call as gaining or imparting knowledge. I am sure, if one doesn't understand things, even if he mechanically goes through it for some time, he'll be an expert in the topic. No wonder we gave utmost importance to srutis. Swami Vivekananda boldly proclaims "Religion is the manifestation of divinity already in man" and "Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man." How true! To be spiritual and intellectual we just need to get used to our already existing divinity and perfection. Von Newmann was amazingly right when he said "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them." I think this applies not only to math but also to life, in general.
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An interesting dimension of a word! Do ideas exist on their own? I think it was somebody in the past who nurtured them and left them to be "re-discovered". So that "somebody" actually discovered that Idea! Hence, i think dicoveries and re-discoveries are not mutually exclusive, they co-exist!
Even in our daily lives, we just have 1% of the sensory inputs in our recoverable memory space. Picking up the same 1% everytime, makes an expert, which again boils down to practice, which u say is familiarity.
Practice makes perfect.
so thats why it is called 'Self-Relization' in spiritual world :)
Guys..it's time to truly REALIZE the greatness of the mind behind these invaluable nuggets of words just like we realize the greatness of the unparallel Swami Vivekananda.
Kasthuri,waiting for ur modest response.
btw. did u get my mail??
@ naveen : Thanks for the visit. Interesting thought indeed !
@ parvati : Thanks. Its indeed a rare privilege to see your agreement :-) I can talk about Swami Vivekananda all day long. Really he is such a great soul. I have some of his lectures on my other blog.
@ tj : sadhana is the key which brings us familiarity.
@ whoami : mmm...nice thought there.
@ ganesh : True.
@ krishna : Oh I don't force in any modesty. Probably its getting back to the old state of ignorance. Evolving backwards in time maybe ! I think you are again going to term this modest...well whatever...
I will gladly agree with Newwman :-D
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