Necessity for a guide- all walks of life

Human Intelligence can absorb and make use of any amount of knowledge. There is no doubt.

                   This is evident from the vast strides we have made through applied science. These create a feeling that since applied knowledge is flawlessly serving millions of people, an individual is worthless as regards his/her knowledge. (Internet, mobile phone etc).Nothing could be more far from truth.

                   Really, in order to achieve advancement of society and to also obtain individual well being and happiness, we need other individuals to help us guide us achieve what we want.

                   Our birth circumstances and the formal education we acquire, never aid us to prepare ourselves to meet life and also our job requirement.

                   We understand things from our own experience. Be it spiritual or professional.

                   Hence we all require people, who in the light of their own personal experience can guide us to find our own truth.

                   This, then needs a receptive attitude, the right ambience and also a person who is willing to guide you, and already possesses personal experience in the line of activity we aspire to take-up.

                   Good theory requires good practice and vice-versa.

                   In the end, we replicate the expertise in ourselves. It is unimaginable that any person can claim an automatic right to knowledge/(as applied) at the stage of birth.

Nothing can substitute personal experience.

                   Hence we can acquire a lifetime of applied knowledge by approaching the wise. Thus the cliché of a “GURU”, the guide who has already crossed your current stage and has the ability ,knowledge and generosity to help you cross the chasm of ignorance.

                   The same guide cannot always guide you. You may need different guides for different subjects. We have to be grateful to them. We should also become guides later.

                   However as Mark McCormack says” gratitude is the least felt of all human emotions”. I learnt this first from his book “What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School”. Later I validated it from my own personal experience of observing people being ungrateful.

                   Let us all remember that life goes on only because there are many”Generous Giver” Guides. Let us salute them. Let us try to be worthy of them.