QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
Q: With the culture and education system of today, how do we nature that childlike quality in us?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
They are not contradictory, in fact they are complimentary. If you talk to any accomplished scientist, you'll find in them this quality of innocence, like a child. Any genius in any field for that matter, if you sit and talk to them, you will feel that there's a genuineness and a childlike simplicity in them.
Somewhere people think that childlike simplicity is contrary to being intelligent. I usually say that intelligence which is accompanied with cunningness is good for nothing, and child-likeness which is full of ignorance is good for nothing. We need that perfect combination of innocence and intelligence. A pure heart and a clear mind is a part of intelligence.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
Q: With the culture and education system of today, how do we nature that childlike quality in us?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
They are not contradictory, in fact they are complimentary. If you talk to any accomplished scientist, you'll find in them this quality of innocence, like a child. Any genius in any field for that matter, if you sit and talk to them, you will feel that there's a genuineness and a childlike simplicity in them.
Somewhere people think that childlike simplicity is contrary to being intelligent. I usually say that intelligence which is accompanied with cunningness is good for nothing, and child-likeness which is full of ignorance is good for nothing. We need that perfect combination of innocence and intelligence. A pure heart and a clear mind is a part of intelligence.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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