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| Louise and Karl von Bose (Bose Memorial on the Luisenstrasse in Kassel. The monument bears the inscription Know Thyself) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The Swadhyaya is self-study and learning in a unique way. In the western countries and in English the most popular and relevant term for it is Know Thyself. Knowing thyself is the most difficult part of learning in the human life. We can gain lots of knowledge, skills, talents and all that people recognize as the most wonderful assets a human can possess. Is it all or we can go for more!
The teachers, who have done the highest level of research works that relate to the pure form of research, the 3 major forms of research are:
1. Pure Research Works
2. Applied Research Works
3. Action Research Works
For pure research, works that lead to applied and action research works are always find valuable place when ancient, Vedic or the modern researchers give advice, guide and counsel for the Swadhyaya, self-study and learning in the special method of knowing thyself. It is one of the most ancient methods, which we, the humans seem to know.
When we lack the learning by knowing thyself, the essence of self-educating and thus Swadhyaya, we can have many degrees but we may rarely learn to use the creative intelligence.
The knowing thyself, the self-education needs focus and meditation, which is the Art of Forgetting. The most educated person may find it difficult to learn the Art of Forgetting as in meditation, we learn to forget everything and thus know thyself.
Thus focusing and meditating on what we know is not meditation but concentration. If we learn the Art of Forgetting, it helps to know what the books cannot teach.
The bookish knowledge remains a memory that does not help when we try to meditate as when we read books on self-realization and or read spiritual hymns or psalms, some people cannot focus and read it for a long. It needs that we first learn to forget what we know.
The Knowing Thyself is to know the unknown within and this what we know as the Swadhyaya. This is what not only Indian Philosophies advice and counsel but all other countries do the same. Why?
It is the most universal process to know what one really is, is not it.
The previous part of this series is at: http://teenandyouthinlife.blogspot.in/2012/04/swadhyaya-study-or-self-observation_23.html
We will continue this series.
Thanks for your time to read.
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