The world is like an open book to the one whose eyes are open; if you cannot read the world, then you have to look at yourself first, then you have to be mindful of your own condition. Read more...
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Acharya Prashant: The questioner says, “Sir, Swami Vivekananda has said – The World is ready to give up its secrets if only we know how to knock. How to give it the necessary blow?” So the question is, what kind of blow must we give to the world to know its secrets?
No, you do not need to give the world any kind of blow. Swami Vivekananda is coming from Vedanta, and one of the central canons of Vedanta is that the world is, but your own reflection. And it is not very wise to keep doing things with the world for your betterment without really directly looking at yourself. So, it is not to the world that you have to deliver the blow; you have to deliver the blow to yourself.
There is really no secret that the world is holding or hiding. It is just that we have raised internal walls, and those walls scream the truth from us. Those walls deserve to get blows. The effort has to be largely internal. It’s not as if somebody outside, in his mischief or cunningness, is shielding the truth from us—no.
The world is like an open book to the one whose eyes are open; if you cannot read the world, then you have to look at yourself first, then you have to be mindful of your own condition.
