How to Convert Knowledge Into Wisdom!

This system of study will keep your minds open and make your hearts free from all prejudices and established notions. Examples are too many to cite. Open mindedness does bring out remarkable change in the student’s life, way of thinking and living. In such a state of mind, the questions bring out answers from the depth of the heart, as there is no penumbra of mere intellectual know­ledge to mislead or elude the candi­date or the person sitting in front of the questioner. Books are not to be gargled, but digested and then tried to be lived. That makes the whole personality-the group of physical emotional and mental bodies-clean and responsive. William Cowper has very aptly written that knowledge and wisdom are far from being one. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Stalwarts, who have shouldered the burden of responsibility in different fields and areas of life, were inspired by the knowledge they found through contact with books. That gave them the energy, the steadfastness, and the inspiration to do outstanding work with unswerving devotion.

Perhaps there is no under- standing of what we mean by study. It does not consist of just books and having discussions in
which the participants project their ideas and opinions, which , in the words of Miss Ianthe Hoskins is nothing but nterchange of ignorance. The study must make you aware of  the problems of life. There must be a pondering that makes the contents of
what is read or heard, true for oneself and relevant to the problems that are faced. This is transforming knowledge into wisdom.