Sadhu,
Sant, Rishi, Pandit, Acharya, Mahatma, Parmatma are different types of teachers
described in literature.
The
knowledge you seek, depends on your learning objectives; whether you want to
satisfy your indriyas or mind, body and soul or attain ananda.
A
teacher is one who takes us to true knowledge, which can be knowledge of self
as well as of the subject. The knowledge so gained must be used for the benefit
of all and it should not harm anybody. To understand it and discriminate
between the knowledge gained, we need the help of a teacher.
A
teacher may be different from a Guru.
A true
guru can be at the level of Tyagi, Vairagi and Sanyasi…These are
at the level of the physical body, mind and the soul respectively.
Tyaga
or giving up worldly desires gives us physical happiness and vairagya or giving
up desires and attachments, gives us mental happiness. A sanyasi is at the
level of the soul and shows the path to achieve ananda.
You
can become a scholar or teacher without actually understanding what you are
studying or teaching. To prevent this, the answer is suno, samjho, jaano, karo.
This is the gist of our Vedas.
We
should hear, listen, understand and convert it into wisdom. Hearing means that
you hear anything but listening means that you should learn its meaning.
Understanding means you should understand its value in your context and wisdom
means you should practice it, re-practice it and learn intricacies of its
implications. Once knowledge has been converted into wisdom it is of no use
unless it is made use of in day-to-day practice.
Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
Vice President CMAAO
Group Editor-in-Chief IJCP Publications
President Heart Care Foundation of India
Immediate Past National President IMA
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