Seeking Knowledge

Knowledge seeking is to be done with dedication and pains. It can’t be gained to its optimum levels otherwise, nor is depth in understanding ever gained without pains and dedication. Knowledge once acquired is to be spread into masses, that is how teachers are born and that is how knowledge grows.

Xuan Zang was one of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India some 1300-1400 years ago. Though we can’t be certain about the purpose of the visit,  but we can be fairly sure that the purpose was seeking knowledge and education.

His stay at the Nalanda Buddhist Monastery and taking with himself almost half a thousand Sanskrit manuscripts speaks volumes about this great knowledge seeker’s dedication and yearning for knowledge.

What did Xuan Zang do his life afterwards? He spent his entire life translating these manuscripts into Chinese. You would be happy to know that this is how some of these Sanskrit manuscripts have survived!

Also remember that after reading or studying a particular book or an article or just random stuff you reach either of the two conclusion,

1. I know so little.
2. I know so much.

If your conclusion is “1” you probably know more. If your conclusion is “2” you probably know nothing!

नमन्ति फलानि वृक्षा नमन्ति गुणिनो जनाः
शुष्क काष्ठ्श्च मूर्खश्च न नमन्ति कदाचन .

Namanti phalaani brukshaa namanti gunino janaah.
Shushka kaashthasch moorkhshch na namanti kadachan.

i.e. Trees laden with fruits bow with the weight of the fruits, and so also knowledgeable and learned persons with their knowledge (are always polite in their behaviour towards others). On the other hand dried wood and foolish persons never bend (are rigid and unwieldy).

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