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Literate and Illiterate
Man has got an intense hunger to know about each thing. Maximum activity of human life is about knowing. One must know about poison and nectar. If this is not known that this is poison and that is nectar, then the movement of life stops. Whatever is happening, human knowledge is helpful in this. As there is a hunger in the body for food, so is there a hunger for knowing in the brain. Many times a person satiates his body's hunger with a wrong-food and in this way he makes his body sick. It also so happens that many times a person fills his brain with the improper information and becomes very much mentally sick. If his knowledge is wrong, then the stream of life starts flowing in a wrong direction. Many body's diseases are of contagious types. These diseases make others also sick. A person gives his wrong knowledge to others and in this way slowly the society becomes mentally sick. If a literate person by using his brain on film actors, presents their life sketch, then he is not serving the society in this manner. On the other hand he is spoiling the memory of the society. Similarly dirty novels and stories full of sex etc. become the signs of degradation of the society.
Such delicate things make the life gloomy.
Akil Bareek Huee Jatee Hai, Ruh Taareek Huee Jatee Hai
Illiterate person does not have knowledge, Country, foreign country, sun, moon, stars, rivers, hills, civilisation-he has no special knowledge of any aspect of the world remains broken. Even if an illiterate person may be unable to understand the world, but can be capable to understand God because religion is not an education but is a spiritual quest. One has to change one's self. Therefore who were called untouchable in our country, if they, by chance, heard a Ved Mantra, then their ears were closed by putting lead in them. These untouchables also meditated on God and were able to understand Him.
I do not read books of knowledge,
and I do not understand the debates.
I have gone insane, chanting and hearing
the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
{Ang 855}
That mortal who meditates on the Lord of the Universe,
whether educated or uneducated,
obtains the state of supreme dignity.
{Ang 197}
Because the whole world is within God, he who understands God, will also know about the world automatically. Therefore the Bhagats have said many mysterious things about God. With the decoration of knowledge, many times a person look religious, but there is no bedecked soul in the decorated body. Therefore it is not long before stench is produced.
Without the Naam, all occupations are useless,
like decorations on a dead body.
{Ang 240}
By studying religious books you have become literate. But you are not the same as mentioned in the holy books.
Tujhae kitab sai Firog Nahin,
Ki Tun Kitaabea Khuvan Hain Saahibae Kitab Nahin.
{Iqbal}
If a literate person does not do beneficense, then he is also fool.
That scholar who is full of greet,
arrogant pride and egotism, is known to be a fool.
{Ang 140}
If he is benevolent, then education is worthy of reverence.
Contemplate and reflect upon knowledge,
and you will become a benefactor to others.
{Ang 356}
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