It was a day when Sahajanand
Swami Bhagwan Swami Narayan sat with his knowledgeable followers as usual. He asked one question to all, “Dear Scholars,
we discussed many things, about eternal science, physical science, humanity, sociology,
psychology and many more, but never discussed about fool man. Hence I would
like to ask you all that who can be said as a greatest fool according to you.
Please explain.” One by one all explained the definition of fool according to
the knowledge they had. Someone showed fool as mentally disordered; some said
as less knowledgeable; some explained as one who is not donating anything; some
showed something else. Likewise all described the fool what they believed as
per their best knowledge. Lord Swami Narayan was smiling hearing all those
replies. At last, one of the followers requested Lord Sahajanand Swami to
explain the most appropriate definition of a fool as they all differed in some
or more ways. Bhagwan Swami Narayan said, “A Fool is one who knows physics,
biology, mathematics, astrology, geography, sociology, psychology, mythology,
all –logy, weapons, all religious books like Gita, Upanishads etc., but he does
not know his own self.”
How effective definition it is
till date! Mentally disordered is not a fool, he is a patient; but one who
knows everything but does not know oneself is the biggest fool. If the outer world has many –logy to learn to be
expert, our own existence is not a small –logy. Who we were? Why we born? Who
we are? And what we should be? These are the questions of our ownology. If we
do not know the answers of these questions, there is no use what is attached in
front of our name. It is useless to say ourselves as Doctor, Engineer,
Scientist or experts. That expertise is like, we know what our neighbor does
every day, but we really do not know what is going on at our own home. We know,
something is burning at our neighbor’s home and we can help them also to extinguish
that fire with our so called expertise. But the pity is we really do not know that
our home is also burning simultaneously. We do not have any remedy for
ourselves. We are doctors, we are engineers, we are experts; but for others
only. We cannot apply all these knowledge when really our own home is burning. When
dooms day of our life comes, when last day comes, nothing favors us. All
vessels gradually start cracking; body does not help us, defecation system does
not support, mind becomes unbalanced and sickness formed darkness ends our
tour. Finally, our own home has been caught in the fire flames. We remain
helpless as usual.
We know once we have to face
this, but we never try to find any remedy. We accept our impotency like others
around us. We accept to live like the biggest fool like others around us. What
impact we made at last? Nothing. The world was dynamic before we came. It
remains dynamic, even if we are not here. It will remain dynamic in future as
dynamism is the nature of this world. If we could have really changed
something, then it was our own self. This is for one who has already lost.
However we still breathe and it is not our end. Please come out from the
biggest community of fools. We have all rights to live like a free soul.
