Lesson Ten - Teaching and sharing the lessons learned
We must now share what we have learned with others. After the age of sixty three we become enlightened teachers. We now tell others, “You are that” (Tat Tvam Asi.) A Guru is one who tells others, “You are that Divinity”. From sixty three onwards we learn to share with others the lessons that we have learned. This lesson of sharing with all continues till the very end.
All these lessons must be learnt within our lifetime. Nature continues teaching us without being concerned about our age. People often get stuck on lesson one itself. They may be grownup individuals but behave like children! They learn the lesson of selfishness and live in a world of their own. They are not aware of the presence of other beings. Even while living with the family they remain oblivious to others and derive their identity from self importance. When we learn the lesson of accepting others, we begin respecting and valuing things from a universal perspective. We do not litter roads and public places because we understand that these belong to all. The motto, ‘Live and let live’ becomes important.
With lesson three, we respect the emotions and differences that exist between genders. Respect for the uniqueness of each comes to the fore and there is no encroachment on the other’s feelings and rights. There is no suppression of the spouse’s individuality. There is recognition of the partner’s right to independent growth and for his or her own independent understanding of life.
Lesson four enables us to bond with the family unit, of growing together with love and regard for one another. Many do not go beyond this lesson. They limit themselves to their families and remain unaware of the world outside.
Lesson five pertains to developing an awareness of the presence of other living beings, animals, birds, plants, continents as well as world issues of global warming, ecology, environmental and social problems. Here one has to expand one’s vision and develop an understanding of not only the world but the entire cosmos. With a heightened sense of awareness and expanded vision comes a sense of identification that ‘we are all one’.
Lesson six is of ‘we’ and ‘ours’, of compassion and universal love. Contemplation reveals the mystic presence of Divinity when we go beyond the world of mere sensory perceptions.
Spirituality and mysticism are components of lesson seven. Dispassion or vairagya is lesson eight. When this lesson is well learnt we experience the Self. With renunciation of concepts of ‘I’ and ‘my’ we come to recognize the Divinity within and become enlightened. Thereafter, for the rest of our lives we live as enlightened teachers, imparting the Knowledge and Experience to humanity.
This is the syllabi of human existence. If we learn these in one lifetime, we attain liberation. If we fail to learn them, we take birth again to begin from where we left off. This is the natural process of evolution.
We must now share what we have learned with others. After the age of sixty three we become enlightened teachers. We now tell others, “You are that” (Tat Tvam Asi.) A Guru is one who tells others, “You are that Divinity”. From sixty three onwards we learn to share with others the lessons that we have learned. This lesson of sharing with all continues till the very end.
All these lessons must be learnt within our lifetime. Nature continues teaching us without being concerned about our age. People often get stuck on lesson one itself. They may be grownup individuals but behave like children! They learn the lesson of selfishness and live in a world of their own. They are not aware of the presence of other beings. Even while living with the family they remain oblivious to others and derive their identity from self importance. When we learn the lesson of accepting others, we begin respecting and valuing things from a universal perspective. We do not litter roads and public places because we understand that these belong to all. The motto, ‘Live and let live’ becomes important.
With lesson three, we respect the emotions and differences that exist between genders. Respect for the uniqueness of each comes to the fore and there is no encroachment on the other’s feelings and rights. There is no suppression of the spouse’s individuality. There is recognition of the partner’s right to independent growth and for his or her own independent understanding of life.
Lesson four enables us to bond with the family unit, of growing together with love and regard for one another. Many do not go beyond this lesson. They limit themselves to their families and remain unaware of the world outside.
Lesson five pertains to developing an awareness of the presence of other living beings, animals, birds, plants, continents as well as world issues of global warming, ecology, environmental and social problems. Here one has to expand one’s vision and develop an understanding of not only the world but the entire cosmos. With a heightened sense of awareness and expanded vision comes a sense of identification that ‘we are all one’.
Lesson six is of ‘we’ and ‘ours’, of compassion and universal love. Contemplation reveals the mystic presence of Divinity when we go beyond the world of mere sensory perceptions.
Spirituality and mysticism are components of lesson seven. Dispassion or vairagya is lesson eight. When this lesson is well learnt we experience the Self. With renunciation of concepts of ‘I’ and ‘my’ we come to recognize the Divinity within and become enlightened. Thereafter, for the rest of our lives we live as enlightened teachers, imparting the Knowledge and Experience to humanity.
This is the syllabi of human existence. If we learn these in one lifetime, we attain liberation. If we fail to learn them, we take birth again to begin from where we left off. This is the natural process of evolution.
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