A very basic question....

Today's topic is just for our better understanding. Going forward, in this blog we will be discussing many interesting topics which will raise one basic doubt in us. This post is just to make us realize the answer for that particular doubt.  Sounds good????

That basic doubt is this..... "If our spiritualism and tradition has lots and lots of principals, techniques and in depth knowledge about almost all fields, then why it did not pass out to generations after generations? Why we do not know anything about them now? Even if we know, we do not believe in them and we just say that they are myths and walk away... Why is this happening?"

There is one convincing answer for this which can be accepted if we think deeply. Before going into that answer, let us discuss one more important point related to our question.

Initially, our education system was different. They had the Gurukulam set up where they learnt many things orally. Mostly no documentation or writing involved. Even our Vedas were learnt orally. There were various methods in teaching and memorizing the Vedas.

Please go through this wikipedia article about vedas and its recitation methods , particularly, vedic schools :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas

Now we can understand that when the Gurukulam system started diminishing, this passing of knowledge also stopped. Even till few hundred years before, it was not this bad. Our great grand parents and their parents really knew many things than us. Then slowly with the western education system, we completely stopped reading our lessons and adapted to their way of education. Even now there are Vedic schools but only a handful of people go there. (This point is only to clarify why our tradition is now not passing to generations).

Coming back to our topic..... Everyone knows that science is a double edged sword. For every invention there is a positive and negative factor for it. Take for instance internet. When we gather lots of knowledge from it, there is still another side of cyber crime and privacy issues and such things in it. Now imagine this... Our Rishis and Saints knew many things. They even foresighted the future. They taught us yoga and meditation. But why they did not reveal the secret of life apparently to us. Instead they told us to practice the techniques taught by them and find the answers on our own.. Why?? Its because if only we practice hard we will get mind maturity. Without having mind maturity whatever we learn is dangerous. Like now we know science and we use it for both construction and destruction. If they had passed out the knowledge of  foreseeing the future (just for example) just like that what would have happened?  We would have learnt them as theories and would have applied them in our everyday life (and even trying to change it) and would have caused lots and lots of mishaps. Its all because we did not have the mind maturity, purity, selflessness and devotion.

It applies to all techniques and sciences of our ancient Rishis. That's why they did not document anything. They only passed the knowledge and secrets to someone who is really fit for that and who can use them only for constructive purposes. Not everyone will get this mind maturity. Fit means really fit. That comes only by lots of patience and continuous practice of the techniques. In short we can say one in a million will attain this mind maturity.

Please think and let me know your views.