विमर्श

How pious the knowledge is; if unmanufactured

Today, while reading an article on Firaq Sahib, I came to know of a very important advice given by this literary genius. Firaq Sahib used to say very often that "Books are not meant for to always stay engrossed to. The purpose of reading books is to come out of them to test and try the content derived from them in the real world. It means whatever you have read should be reflected through your quest in life. You have to let your knowledge be kissed by the real life experiences. It is sine qunon for us to brood much more over whatever you have read."

Knowledge is an open-ended process. Its stream should be kept flowing in so many directions as it may take during its course towards a better and graduated fulfilment. It shines in many splendours when feather-touched by empirical sweep of mind across the time and space while sailing its voyage through a life. By the way we have ushered into a knoledge city and information society. Through the world wide web we are networked to leverage a vast plethora of knowledge at a click away from each of us. This democracy of informatin is a new avatar to shape the human society to its ideally best form of culture and governance. Information capacitates us. It's a historic juncture in the civilizational progress of human society where possibilities are infinetly infinite and potential boundless. Let this informed society prosper and progress as per the wishes of Gurudev. His unforgettable famous lines are presented hereunder once again for a ready reference:
"Where The Mind Is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."