Real wisdom comes from within
I hope you’re having a lovely Saturday wherever you are.
I’ll be temporarily pausing our Collective Effervescence Sunday online group meditations while I continue my panchakarma in Hyderabad. Look out for an email soon and check the event calendar for forthcoming updates.
In the absence of a group meditation discussion topic this week, the below quote from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi feels fitting.
“True education is not pumped and crammed in from outward sources, but aids in bringing to the surface the infinite hoard of wisdom within.”
—Rabindranath Tagore
Knowledge, the foundation of wisdom, contains two parts:
Direct experience, which is empirical evidence
A very good theory that explains the experience and observations
That’s why when we learn or hear something that resonates, we just know it to be true, without needing to verify it through Wikipedia or Google—because it awakens within us an aspect of a memory of the same knowledge we’ve already gained by direct experience in this lifetime or another and explains that experience.
Wisdom is our ability to put that knowledge into action by applying it in our daily lives.
The knowledge of the universe is all within you, gleaned from thousands of incarnations.
By sitting twice daily for our Vedic Meditation practice, we transcend the noisy thought layer of the mind and reconnect with that omnipresent inner Knowing, from which all ageless wisdom comes.
This is why meditators report heightened intuition and perceptual abilities.
Each time we de-excite the mind and release stress, we re-emerge with just a little more of that connection stabilized into our daily lives.
With each passing day, we become that much wiser, not only from the experiences of yesterday, but from regular contact with the sum total of experiences of our many incarnations.
To quote Deepak Chopra, “this is because by experientially knowing something, we become it. Once we become it, we begin to embody all its properties.”
“Know that one thing by which knowing everything else can be known”
—The Veda
Music today from Love with You Set The Scene from their 1967 album Forever Changes.