Why Forgetting Is Just as Important as Knowing | A Timeless Lesson from the Upanishads
mridconsult@gmail.com
“In the Upanishads, the praises of ignorance are sung side by side with the praises of knowledge. Man needs not only knowledge but ignorance too. Knowledge alone, or ignorance alone, leads him into darkness. But the union of fitting knowledge with fitting ignorance is the nectar of eternity. The world is so filled with the matter of knowledge that men would go mad if they were to attempt to cram all of it into their heads. The ability to forget is just as necessary as the ability to remember”. The rediscovery and importance of myth is one of the break-throughs of our time. The new seriousness of myth has two aspects. The respect for the concern for myth is one, the other honours its psychology, recognizing its necessity and indispensibility. Myth enables us to generalise com-prehensively about ultimate feelings which otherwise have no formation at all. The myths ‘dramatise timeless reali-ties of human behaviour.’
They are a kind of intuitive and symbolic shorthand for larger meanings which we know are somehow true, but which are lost by intellectual exactitude. The myth shows us that these rational faculties gain a better under-standing of the role of myths in human life.
‘Rational analysis destroys myth-making just as anatomising an organism takes away its life’. We know it analytically only after it is dead. So analysis is recognized as “a kill-ing technique”
Myth is the origin of all philosophy as the quest for meaning of life which transcends all finite patterns and therewith rationality. It gives us the idea of ultimates and thus of truth: it reveals to us the future as already-kown darkness and is the invisible visible light of all things as they are seen by the mind.
When Shakespeare says “all the world’s a stage and we are merely players”, he touched upon one aspect of the problem. The myth takes away the curtain from our eyes, leaving us before things as they are, in the sunlight or in the shade. Anyone can read a myth and anyone can tell it to you, but the myth may fall upon deaf or un-attending ears. To be awakened by a myth, as some Guru or Sage would tell, it rouses you from slumber. In order to be receptive there must be a certain preparedness, a state of openness.
Astrology reveals your inner planetary potentials, spirituality refines and harmonizes them, and psychology helps you understand how these energies influence your emotions and behavior. When the mind becomes calm, aware, and centered, your birth chart evolves from a fixed destiny into a guide for conscious self-development.
Book your personalized horoscope analysis session to explore your unique inner patterns and align your life with greater clarity, balance, and authentic self-confidence.
hridayankur sharma(mridconsult@gmail.com)
www.mridconsults.com