Wisdom

Man can have knowledge but not wisdom. Man can achieve as much knowledge as he wants. It is easy, you just need a little mental effort, a little exertion. You can go on feeding your memory system. It is a computer; you can accumulate whole libraries. But wisdom is not something that you can accumulate because it does not happen through the mind at all. It happens through the heart, it happens through love, not through logic.

When the heart is open with love, with trust, when the heart is surrendered to the whole, then a new kind of insight arises in you, a clarity a tremendously deep understanding of what life is all about, of who you are, of why this whole existence exists in the first place. All the secrets are revealed, but through love not through logic, through the heart not through the head.

Once you have known wisdom through the heart then you can use your mind also as a good servant, then you can use even the knowledge accumulated by the mind in the service of wisdom – but not before you have known through the heart.

 Hence, rather than wasting time in accumulating unnecessary information, and people go on accumulating such stupid information, which is utterly ridiculous. If you look in the history books ... children are forced to remember the names of stupid kings and queens and their birth date and their death date – and what do they have to do with this poor child? Once a teacher asked a child, “If Adam had never left the garden of Eden what would have happened?” the child said “One thing is certain: there would have been no history and no history class! It all began with Adam getting out of the garden of Eden.” It is rumored that the first words that Adam uttered when he was coming out of the gate... to Eve he said, “We are passing through a great crisis.”

 And since then we have always been passing through a great crisis. It is always a crisis. Not for a single moment have the crises stopped: one crisis after another crisis. And the poor children have to read history. When I was a student in the school that was a constant problem for my teachers because I would insist “What is the purpose? Why should I know about this man? Did he know anything about me? Then why should I bother?” My history teacher would simply close his eyes and sit silently – what to do? Many times he sent me to the principal saying “Please explain to this boy. He asks such questions that cannot be answered. And in a way he is right...” because what do I have to do with some Henry, some Edward? What do I have to do with these people/ And still I am wondering because I have not come across any situation in which they were needed. And I don’t think they will ever be needed.

And all kinds of geographies... Don’t waste your time with information. All the universities are wasting peoples’ lives. Almost ninety-nine percent that they teach is rubbish. The one percent, it seems enters the rubbish without their knowledge, otherwise, they would stop that too. Somehow it gets mixed into the rubbish and enters the curriculums and the texts; otherwise, it is all absurd… Move your energy to the heart, be more loving and you are in for a great surprise. As your love grows, as your love petals open and your heart becomes a lotus, something tremendously beautiful starts descending on you – that is wisdom.

And wisdom brings freedom. Knowledge brings information, wisdom brings transformation.