292. ASK to improve your Attitude Skill and Knowledge…….

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What is it that makes a person victorious? Whatever might be the profession if we search for an answer to this questions there are many answers. Some feel it is hard work, some say luck, some give credit to talent or to God. With so many answers we have never understood precisely what exactly is required. Whatever we do!! To become victorious three most required things are Attitude, Skill, andKnowledge.

Attitude is the initial drive within us which pulls us from latent state to energetic state. Skill helps in doing things precisely and plays a very visible role in governing over other two. Knowledge is the foundation which supports the other two pillars.

Attitude, Skill, and Knowledge comes to us only when we ASK for it. In ancient times, a disciple would yearn to learn from his Guru, suppressing his Ego and totally surrendering to him. Though it is necessary to surrender to our masters, the society has given a new dimension for self esteem and will not let us surrender in this era, at least we can ask for the needful. There is a phrase “The Squeaky wheel gets the oil” this means that unless we ask for we will never get.

In Brihadaranyaka Upanishad there are conversations between the Sage Yajnavalkya and his wives, Maitreyi and Katyaayani. His wife Maitreyi asks him to teach her what he considers the best: Wealth or Knowledge, in the process of explaining her, Sage Yajnavalkya pours out his thoughts which have made up as a section called Muni Kanda. This section was possible because Maitreyi asked him to gain knowledge. Asking is the source of gaining knowledge, and there is no shame in telling “I don’t Know or I want to Know.”

In a Gurukul after giving lessons to all the disciples at the end of the period of learning the Guru asks the disciples to tell him what they have learnt in the Gurukul. One disciple answers that he is now aware of Brahman, the other says he knows about creation, other says he is very well versed in science of Astronomy and so on. Lastly one of the disciple says, “Guruji what I learnt here is that I don't know anything. And in the world outside this Gurukul if I need to know about something I have to ask for it.”

Guru then tells the disciples, “The important knowledge is to know that you don’t know”

There is a science behind this ASK:

Attitude is the science of knowing “WHY”    

Skill is the science of knowing “HOW”

Knowledge is the science of knowing “WHAT”

With Attitude we are committed to the task which can be proficiently done with Skill and confidently approached by Knowledge acquired.

Why’s How’s and What’s are the small words which can get us the answer for the most and vast unknown………and of them all the most important question to search for the answers is "WHO AM I?" and most amazingly to get the answer to this question one need to ask himself …….Am I Right????