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Innocence As Eligibility For Ultimate Intelligence

We now know in considerable detail how our consciousness is very much a function of a ‘mechanism’ called brain and ‘more’. This brain mechanism is a beautifully complex system capable of such miraculous and mystical propositions that it is very hard for average human to accept it all as true. Moreover, this knowledge about the mechanism is still evolving.

We now know and can tell everyone as why and how things happen and how we all can lead ourselves, whether we are a genius or a dumb, to understand all those wisdoms which since thousands of years, have been kept away from common people in the obsolete belief that it cannot be known or replicated for all. Yes, it can!

As experts say, “The human mind is the most amazingly powerful and beautifully synchronized mechanism in the universe. It has instinctive mechanism to universalize goodness as well as evil. What we feed in it is not its concern. This is the role of intellect. The universe has not put us where we are today with any specific purpose of designed goodness. We have to design our purpose. We, as intellectual beings, need to set lofty and larger goals for ourselves and then program and train our minds to attain it.”

That is why; the beautiful metaphor of ‘God’ was created by humanity as the ultimate and singular icon of all referrals for individual as well as collective value summation. All lofty and higher ideals (always objective) for humanity were infused into this metaphor for all humans to ape.

This metaphor and ultimate iconism of God and divinity, as archetypal wisdom wished us to follow, needs to be understood, otherwise, the very purpose of its creation shall be lost. The wise believed and very compassionately so, that average human, who is too busy and overwhelmed by daily chores of life in his or her roles at the theatre of life, should not be bothered by the intricacies and details of all goodness he or she needs to follow for good life. They also new that the most basic and potent instinct in humans and other creatures too is aping – the animalistic nature of doing what others do.

They created the beautiful and very useful metaphor of divinity and infused all goodness of human wisdom into it for all humanity to ape. They also made it a point to tell the average human that what they need to do is never question the mechanisms of this metaphor of divinity and blindly ape them. This was said with compassion, not any bad intention as the wise believed, this would ensure larger wellness for humanity. It did initially.

The trouble started when some unscrupulous elements of society used their ingenuity to manipulate the average and common people, who were in the habit of blindly aping goodness. These elements vitiated the trust and faith of average human and now we have a situation where innocence of trust and faith is considered the sure sign of a born loser.

This now has to be accepted that dualism and conflict, which prevails in our societal environment is purely cultural, devised and designed by we humans itself. The goodness, the divinity, the idealisms of humanity, known to all and so beautifully invested and enshrined in the metaphor of divinity since ages is not something, which religion and philosophy tells us. It is common in all wisdoms – new or old. We just need to imbibe them with innocence.

Those who believe, God wanted all humans to imbibe these ideas and values should also accept that these ideals need to be ingrained in the mind-mechanism to become universalized and this can happen only when we consciously do it.

As we repeat this objective mind training to our brain, the objective goodness would spread all throughout its neural circuitry and then, we would not have to think twice to perform goodness, as it would then become an instinct, and thus an involuntary mechanism, like a hand moving away involuntarily as it touches fire.

A real good human is not one who needs to think and then behave and act good. Rather, it is one, who does not have to think as all his behaviors and actions are instinctively bound to be good. Ask all the greats of different fields of art like music, literature, dance, painting et al and they would confirm that their best is what comes unconsciously to them. However, this stage they could reach after years of hard and painful practice. The all-season greatness of artistry gets ingrained in their subconscious mind. A habitual hero, they could become because they practiced hard and incessantly to make greatness instinctive and an auto-behavior.

We do not consciously remember when we drive a car or cook a meal as it is instinctive, even when they were once learned behavior. Objective goodness is also learned behavior but when we repeatedly practice it, it becomes instinctive.

It is therefore primary to understand what is ‘intelligence’ and how this intelligence is attained and universalized in human mind and society. It is a primary fact of the universe that realism may be singular and objective but its manifestations to different observers are plural and subjective. Humanity has shades of consciousness and all living beings are in different levels and memes of consciousness.

Usually, we all expect others to be compassionate and considerate towards our subjective and personalized worldviews and consciousness but seldom extend the same sentiment and facility to others. That creates compartmentalized humanity and we all suffer.

We just need to understand that before we can say we wish to be ‘intelligent’ we all need to be ‘innocent’. Intelligence is like a huge beautiful house, which can stand firm and steady on the ground of innocence only.

And, the innocence is in first being compassionate and considerate towards all subjective and personalized worldviews and consciousness and then only expect others to offer the same sentiment and facility to you. Innocence discounts hypocrisy and narcissism.

The next step is be ‘assimilative’ and ‘integrative’ towards this pluralism and strive together for a singular objective consciousness. This is the benchmark of ‘innocence’. If this innocence is attained and you arrive at it, you shall be fit and eligible for ‘ultimate intelligence’ of the ‘Habitual Hero’, which is within you but just needs to be trained.

There is an old oriental wisdom quoted beautifully in Sanskrit language rhymes. It goes like: Vidya dadati vinayam, vinayam dadati patratam. It means; education is meaningful only when it leads you to modesty and if you attain modesty, you are eligible and when you are eligible, intelligence can be attained. Vinay (modesty), the primary condition for ‘eligibility’, can never come to you if you do not arrive at the ‘innocence’ mentioned above.

The core idea is, accept the mechanism of consciousness and this mechanism wants you to accept with all humility and modesty the pluralism of consciousnesses. This modesty shall lead you to a stage of innocence where you would rid yourself of the ‘hypocrisy’ and dualism of action and behavior. As you shall position yourself to this innocence of assimilation and integration, you shall be amenable and eligible to the ultimate intelligence. The position of the ‘Habitual Hero’…

Innocence is the real intelligence and this innocence is not something you are born with. A child’s innocence is raw and needs to complete the full cycle of life’s dualism. The innocence of a grownup, who understands all pluralism and then assimilates into them while accepting it with humbleness and modesty is the required positioning for arriving at the intelligence.

That is why; practice is the key. We need to understand the mechanism, the mind mechanism and the process of consciousness. Then, accepting the high and lofty ideals and values of humanity, which is the embodiment of divinity and godliness.

We all need to repeat this objective mind training to our brain, the objective goodness would then spread all throughout its neural circuitry and then; we do not have to think twice to perform goodness, as it would then become an instinct, and thus an involuntary mechanism.

We shall then become one with the idea of God and divinity. The process of assimilation and integration of all humanity with singular objective goodness and wisdom would then be completed forever.

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Innocence As Procrastinated Virtue

There are ways to a particular problem or trouble. Often, solutions are evolutionary and it takes some good measure of time for them to take shape and then present themselves as occasions and situations where they get unfolded and then accepted. Human troubles, especially the relationship troubles are like that.

Usually people do not afford to wait or keep a date with probabilities of future. Their dualistic consciousness gives them number of ingenuous and smart reason for such a choice. This adds more conflicts to an already aggravated trouble.

Also, as most of us would probably admit, often, solutions of a problem are just round the corner and we all probably see it there. Still, coming to it looks almost impossible and as human dualistic mind keeps dissuading people not to see and accept simple things and easily ‘available’ options as the true solutions; they keep slipping from the hands of people in general.

Solution of problems is not a big task. If you have a problem, you already know it that solution is somewhere ‘inherent and embedded’ in the problem itself. The milieu around us presents some factors in an ‘arrangement’, which stand in our disadvantage, at a particular stage of our life positioning and we call the outcome of such an arrangement as a ‘problem’.

Often, solution presents itself as some ‘alternative’ arrangement or placement of the same factors in such a way that they turn advantageous for us, hence qualifying as a ‘solution’.

In most cases, especially the modern day problems we face, the artistry of arriving at solutions is not in ‘creating’ or generating something externally but in ‘rearranging’ and ‘repositioning’ the already present factors and elements in some alternative ways.

That is why, as you already know it, we need little ‘action’ but loads of calm and objective ‘reception’ in analyzing the ‘factors’ that essentially constitute a problem. The ‘genesis’ of solutions is in total and perfect reception of the ‘genetics’ of the problems.

However, it takes a pure and evolved ‘innocence’ of consciousness to see and accept simple and very much easily available solutions as the right and imminent one. This innocence is very rare in contemporary societal milieu as the dualistic mind keeps our consciousness in the perpetuity of conflicts, chaos and competitiveness of cultural and intellectual one-upmanship.

The trouble is, often, even this innocence is so much relegated as secondary and procrastinated virtue that it fails in pushing our consciousness to easy and simple solutions lying round the corner.

There is no blame as we know how cynicism has spread its mighty envelop over all emotions of innocence and even intelligence. We all are in such a state of dualistic consciousness where even when we emotionalize innocence with people close to us, we accept and practice it as an ‘intelligent art’ and not as what it should be as a non-dualistic positioning.

There are persons who are so beautifully and colossally innocent, despite the fact that they have witnessed oceans of negativity in life and around them. They also know it that this innocence is their real asset and true virtue. They also in fact say that they are and believe to be in the perpetuity of this innocence so that their personality and consciousness could never ever be drawn in the negativity of the milieu around them.

Still, their innocence is not helping them with easy and simple solutions of their spiraling personal and relational troubles as the innocence remains relegated ‘as secondary and procrastinated virtue’ or it is ‘performed’ as an ‘intelligent art’.

No doubt, innocence as secondary and