Learn to think Holistically – Lowest to the
Highest
Visitor: What are
the steps by which an individual can learn to think holistically?
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| THINK HOLISTICALLY |
SWAMIJI: You have
to take a person from the lowest to the highest, gradually. The involvements of
a person have to be understood first. There are political involvements, social,
financial, biological, family involvements. These have to be taken care of first.
You should not speak anything other than these things in the earlier stages.
People are worried about these things very much, and other things do not so
much carry weight. When these things are cleared, you can take up the question
of the psychological involvements – how the mind, emotions, intellect, prana,
and body are working. From outward considerations, you come to the inward ones,
which are psychoanalytical and psychological.
Then, the third
stage would be to set the personality in tune with Nature as a whole, the
entire cosmos of astronomy, as you may say, with which also you have to be in
harmony. You cannot be at loggerheads with the sun, the moon, the stars, and
the planets. They also determine your life in some way. When that also is taken
care of adequately, you centre your soul in the Spirit of the cosmos, which is
God Almighty. Thus, from outside, you have come inside. From inside, you have
gone to the whole of Nature, which is all creation; then, you have embraced the
Absolute. This is how you proceed slowly from the lower wholes to the higher
wholes, the highest one being the Absolute, God.
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