Sharpen Your Mind

2 years ago By Yogi Anoop

Sharpen Your Mind: The Key to Intellect Boosting.

(A Spiritual Guru's Perspective on Developing a Knowledge-based Intellect)

The biggest and best tool to sharpen one's intellect is to develop logical reasoning. In the Upanishadic era, the guru would always converse with his disciples using tools such as questions and answers. This medium of questioning and answering would awaken greater logical thinking abilities in the disciples.

Personally, I do not prefer giving my students straightforward answers. However, upon deeper reflection, a child with an average intellect prefers to receive answers in a simple 'yes' or 'no' format to their questions. They have such urgency to obtain answers that they would rather get it from the guru as quickly as possible instead of trying to find the answer themselves. This means that they have convinced themselves that they cannot find the answer through their own efforts.

That's why I don't give direct answers to such students. I try to complicate the questions asked by students even more. I want them to first understand whether the question is really useful or not. Most questions are meaningless. I have found that about 90 percent of questions asked by students are pointless. Therefore, I try to make them even more complex through their questions.

This can be understood through an example - Many students ask the question that I want to meet God and know why you give pain? Why did God create us? Where does God keep us after we die? There are many such questions for which there can be no answer.

The student wants answers to such questions in a simple yes or no. I also know that he must have asked such questions to many other teachers before me. And he is asking me the same thing. I also know that he will not be satisfied with the answer forever because in the past, he has not been satisfied with imaginary answers from many other teachers.

I believe that instead of giving answers to such questioners, we should raise a question mark on that question itself. For such people, the answer to the question should be another question.

Just as I use this technique with my students and even with my children, I sit and answer their questions directly without asking a question back to them. After that, attempts are made to give them different types of answers. Despite teasing them a little, they still give many answers, and I ask them again.

A spiritual visionary guru must see that his disciples should not be given straight answers like a burger. Give an answer that makes him think for hours to find the answer to that question. Confuse him a little so that logical thinking can develop within him. If answers are given without his own effort, then his intellect will become weak. If he tries himself to get the answer, then his knowledge-based intellect will be strong, and he can become experienced and knowledgeable in the future. Otherwise, he will just be someone who asks questions throughout his life.

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