409. Every Gesture Has a Meaning
There is one more problem. Two people of exactly similar qualities can exhibit opposite traits. Is there a solution? If there is one, can we acquire it? Before that, let us consider its various aspects. Tone, voice, manners, nervousness, physical movements, capacity to sit quiet, smiling face, unsmiling benevolence, twitching of the eyes, mannerisms, calm, quiet, stability, poise, bearing, mien, first reception, type of send-off, hearing, listening, understanding, enthusiasm, energy, will power are expressive of one's personality. Innumerable studies in all these fields have been conducted successfully in the West, even before the World War. There is no study or knowledge or science that embraces all of them in one central category called Personality. Supposing one such science emerges, it can certainly tell you what IS. It is incapable of giving us the knowledge of how to create that Personality and that too, entirely positively.
Spirituality of India has once studied this as a partial science to perfection. There lies hidden a great treasure. It is found in rural India as bits and pieces, just as a pot is broken into smithereens and scattered. Still it is very valuable. Our people do not know its value. The Westerner, especially curious young people will know its full value. If Western youth live in Indian villages for a couple of years, they would gather a rich harvest. Indian spiritual leaders should give thought to making all of these fields into a single science. More than that, it is necessary to add a new future dimension to that science, if ever it emerges, which is, how that science can help us master life.- Login to post comments