That innocence with razor-sharp intellect
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Acharya Prashant:
Only a very sharp intellect can rise above itself!
You look at the Prophets, Saints, you look at Kabir or Nanak. See how adept they were even in worldly matters!
‘Didn’t prophet Muhammad fight and win wars?’
What do you think winning wars is a child’s play? And he was winning wars with very scant resources. He surely must have been an excellent leader and a manager. He knew the world! He was a master of worldly affairs as well. He was not just chanting the name of Allah, hiding in some secluded place.
He knew the affairs of the world; he knew how to manage men. He knew how to assemble resources. He knew how to organize an army. He knew how to run a small government. He had Intellect!
Only when you have intellect can you rise above the intellect!
In ancient India, in the great universities - Taxila, Nalanda, where religion was taught; “Logic and Philosophy and mathematics were taught before religion was taught!”
If you do not know logic, how will you understand Ashtavakra? What do you think, ‘You can understand Sankhya Yog if you cannot comprehend logic?
