Human beings have always tried to better themselves. From the primitive stone age, they have kept on learning and advancing and finally have come to this age. And still, we are learning new things and technologies to advance and better ourselves. The innate human desire to better themselves has always been there. In this article, we are going to discuss the bible secret that everyone should know.
The Two Spheres of Betterment
So far as I understand, there are two spheres to advance to – one is the outer world we live in and the other one is the inner world that lies within. When the advance of both worlds goes hand in hand, peace and humanity prevails.
By default, we tend to progress outwardly. When we see this world, we get attracted to it and try to acquire it. We get so attracted in this world that we forget to think of the inner domain of ourselves which cares about our peace and humanity. When we forget our inner realities and humanity, we suffer and advancement means little to us as human beings.
To alleviate the suffering of human beings, seers and great souls have come to our rescue from time to time. They have shown the inner path of peace and happiness. They have shown the path of humanity. One such great soul was Jesus Christ who sacrificed himself while showing the people the path to betterment. His disciples compiled his great teachings in the Bible we can read and get benefitted from. His showed the path of peace and humanity. Whosoever came to him seeking that peace he revealed the peace to him and thence followed the humanity. He loved humanity to such a great extent that he sacrificed himself for the sake of it!
We shall now talk about one of the quotes from Bible and see how seers and great souls world over have given the same message and talked about same thing, be it in different languages:
The Gospel According to St. John
{1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. {1:2} The same was in the beginning with God. {1:3} All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. {1:4} In him was life; and the life was the light of men. {1:5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
What we come across here is: The Word is God, That Word is Life. That Word is in everything; there is nothing without that Word.
The Importance of Self-Knowledge
Now, we can safely say: that Word is within each one of us. And that Word is the infinite which has been talked about extensively in every scripture with different names. While Vedas say it Shabda Brahma, Kabir says it Shabad or Naam or Ram Naam.
Why am I talking about this? Has It any potential to do any good to human beings? How can we be benefitted by it? Of course, we know a lot about this world and universe and exploring it ceaselessly, but can we think of exploring ourselves, the infinite Word, the life in us, which can help us know our own peace, the peace that lies within us? This is what has been called Self-Knowledge or the Knowledge of Self.
Great Saint Sant Kabir says:
आतम ज्ञान बिना नर भटके, क्या मथुरा क्या काशी।
मृग नाभि में है कस्तूरी, वन वन फिरत उदासी।।
Aatam gyan bina nar bhatke, kya Mathura kya Kashi
Mrig nabhi mein hai kasturi van van phirat udasi.
Without this Self-Knowledge, all efforts of human beings are futile. He can go to Kashi or Mathura to find that infinite, but that is inside and without Self-Knowledge one cannot know it.
With an example he makes it clearer: As a musk-deer wanders in the forest looking for the smell emanating from within him, in the same way man looks for that infinite, the source of peace outside in this world. And does not get it. One can know it only then when he is able to look within. Peace is abundantly available within but one must know how to access it. Such is its importance!
Scriptures point us towards that very essence of life, that life force, but often we do not pay any care towards then. And this is where the balance gets disturbed. Thus, we happen to know a lot of this world but we know little of our own world. And this imbalance causes problems and humanity suffers.
We shall be talking about some more secrets from Bible in our next articles which are rarely known to people.
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