Hari Bol....
36. Listen to Heart – Be Learned To Be Learned….
To become a learned person, one has to learn. Is there any end to learning? It is a big question. If yes, then I think a person can be called as Learned or he can call himself as Learned once he has learned all in all aspects. If no, then can we conclude that a person can never call himself as learned and can never be tagged as Learned because one cannot learn all in lifetime in all aspect? Then the question remains open – who is a learned person? How can one be learned? What is the path of action to be learned? And so on….If it is not possible then what do we mean by the word learned?
In one of the article in the journey of, Listen to Heart we have discussed that “Listen to Heart - Learning by Unlearning has No Bar …. “ One can learn at any age and at any place by anyone like Arjuna learnt from Krishna in the battlefield itself making battlefield as classroom. For learning you need not represent to any cast, creed, religion, sex…Learning is above all. You just need to be motivated to learn with positive thoughts and positive energy and stay in positive vibration and to be in this state one has to listen to his heart.
A person is called as ‘Learned’ in this material world, one who possesses or demonstrates profound, often systematic knowledge. This is directed towards so called scholars. They learn by gaining knowledge by learning and teaching or by experience. A learned person is a scholarly person. A learned person is a well-informed person. A learned person is someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field. A person of great or varied learning is called Polymath. It comes from a Greek word ‘Polumathēs’ which means having much knowledge. A learned person is called as Pundit in Hindu religion. A Pandit is a Brahman learned in Sanskrit and, especially in Hindu religion, philosophy or law. Pundit is a person who makes comments or judgments in an authoritative manner. A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines is also called a Bookman. He is a person who uses the mind creatively. He is a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation. He is a person who has received a degree from a school, high school or college or university. A specialist in the Arabic language or culture is called ‘Arabist’. An Arabist is one who is favorably disposed toward Arab concerns and policies. He is a student or expert in Arabic culture, language, history, etc.
There are few Learned Societies also. A learned society (also known as a scholarly society or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or profession, or a group of related disciplines or professions. Membership may be open to all or may require possession of some qualification. Few Learned societies are; the Polish Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana (founded 1488), the Italian Accademia dei Lincei (founded 1603), the Académie Française (founded 1635), the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (founded 1652), the Royal Society of London (founded 1660)or the French Academy of Sciences(founded 1666). Most learned societies are non-profit organizations. Their activities typically include holding regular conferences for the presentation and discussion of new research results and publishing or sponsoring academic journals in their discipline. Some also act as professional bodies, regulating the activities of their members in the public interest or the collective interest of the membership.
“Be a Student as Long as You
Still Have Something to Learn
And This Will Mean All Your Life”
We feel that we are learned whereas according to me, no one is learned on this earth. We need to understand that there is no one on this earth who is unlearned also. We need to pay respect to others, irrespective of their age, relationship, sex, cast, religion…. We need to give values of others opinions also. In this system of life we have teachers, parents, Lecturers, Professors, etc. to are supposed to be learned to some extent in their field. In spiritual life there are gurus and masters who give us guidance for the right path. It is said also that one need to have a Guru to his elevation. This is the reason people take ‘Diksha’ from their Guru. We should be open to learning.
Krishna said to Arjuna that while speaking the learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead.
Our spiritual life begins in earnest only when we treat spirituality as a specialized branch of knowledge. Gita wisdom indicates that a spiritual message is authoritative when it is derived from scripture and transmitted through a chain of practitioners that goes back to the original revelation. This standard of authorization implies that we need to critically examine the credibility of our past sources of spiritual information and re-evaluate what we have learnt. To learn, we need to first unlearn which takes us to the path of being learned. Krishna tells Arjuna that though his words are learned, his emotions still remain uneducated and unlearnt. This is the hallmark of learning that needs to be unlearned and work towards being learned - what we know doesn’t really help us. Krishna said, “You are talking like a learned man, but you do not know that one who is learned - one who knows what is body and what is soul—does not lament for any stage of the body, neither in the living nor in the dead condition.” Knowledge means to know matter and spirit and the controller of both. Arjuna was lacking in that knowledge, he was not a learned man.
The great devotee and scholar Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura expressed the necessity of unlearning, "To walk back is the first stage of walking in the path of spiritual living…the neophyte is required to offer his loyal unlearning submission." This type of submission is not dis-empowering but it is super-empowering. Spiritual knowledge learnt thus empowers us to connect with Krishna and change ourselves for the better.
I would like you to give a thought that can any human being be a learned person? I would like to put my views that only Lord Krishna is a Learned as He possesses all knowledge. Krishna was 16 kala sampurna.
All Glories to Lord Krishna & All His Loving Devotees….. Hari Bol……
Courtesy: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) , Srimad Bhagavad-Gita ( by A. Parthasarathy & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 2 : Text 11 , www.google.com, Wikipedia. www.krishna.com, www.krishna.org, www.thefreedictionary.com, en.wikipedia.org
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