How can one see from the Divine point of view? Is it possible to see from an angle other than our own? Why not? In our daily life we do see from many others' angles rather than our own. In fact our success depends on that. A person appearing for an interview does see his or her manners, answers and personality from the angle of the person who is going to interview him or her. A good teacher is one who sees from the students' angle. A good leader is one who sees from the peoples' angle. The mother sees her own life from the angle of the child in her womb. So seeing from an angle other than our own is what practical life is about. Just we have to push it a little to see from the angle of the Divine.
Isavasya gives you another thought. You begin to know so many things. We gather data. We become well informed. We attain knowledge and scholarship. But do we know the art of being and becoming? Being totally in a context, becoming others in empathy is an art. Without that, just being knowledgeable is mere dryness of the soul. Isavasya explains this beautifully. Being merely a person of knowledge is inadequate in itself. And being just a person of empathy also is not complete. A human being crosses death as it were by empathy, by being a person of awareness but to enjoy immortality calls for great knowing. Of course the Upanishad employs a lot of parallel terms to bring out the efficacy of possessing this twin capacity - the capacity of knowing and the capacity of being and becoming or the capacity of empathy. We can understand this in short as - being a person of the head and also being a person of the heart make a complete personality. An authentic person is one who knows vast and also feels deep about the human life.
Srirangam Mohanarangan
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