Learning –an obstruction for free expression?

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Learning –an obstruction for free expression?

the more i read, the more i remember, the more parrot i become

memory filled with cliches, hackneyed, phrases, idioms, giving an inadvertant impression that i am a learned fellow ,well read, fluent, stylish

–without revealing that i am a victim of my learning

there are plenty of expressions– my memory readily supplies , the moment i start penning a passage.

i want to convey a thing but i am distracted to convey a different thing

by the load of my vocabulary, phrases, quotes, episodes, similies, homilies,metaphors.

and secretely i get a satisfaction that i am writing nicely like a great author–which i never wanted to get.

in the process my point is lost or obscured.

i am just flabbergasted to see this phenomenon happening, and it is as if i am writing by habit , not originally

inebriated with the exuberance of my own verbocity, i tend to be a showman, a sales man of my scholarship , a curator , rather than , where i really wanted to become a creator.

jk wrote a book named ”freedom from the known”

how true it is
all my knowing has become a cage imprisonig my real being aspiring to be innovative to discover and present a new world to the readers

words creep in here , which are unnecessary and i should have used some originals.

expression should be precise to the point, purposeful, a productive endeaver.

how i wish i can be as orignal as i want to be!

extending the thought that our exposure to things around, people we come across, experiences we undergo ——-all leave their impressions, cluttering our being, making us behave as a trained monkey under the control of his master.

moment to moment we must watch and safeguard our original perfect nature from all tendencies–like how his father kept rishyashringa, isolated from all
and preserved his life to grow in to a chaste rishi who commanded the rains to shower in the kingdom

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Saroj Das Rishivar;
While thinking about the Unthinkable....the mind resorts a 'thought-form' of its own. Renouncing that last 'single-thought' ..i abide in silence. The 'knowledge- absolute' , that the Atman is..., can not be known by any known methods of knowing.
Hari Om.

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Kalavathi Sonti You are....... Confirming...... J k. What you say is absolutely true..about the mind ....
Starts enjoying and gets stuck with knowledge.....

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Kalavathi Sonti Some times a little I ...and sometimes it becomes bigger and forgets the purpose!!

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Harjeet Kohli 

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Ab Narayan Very true; But it seems it is much limited to Sub continent only. In the last 40 yrs have come across many many various people of more than 25 countries, and have observed it is much so in the people of sub continent only. Leading among them from top to down wise-- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. In the least (bottom) level is -- Japanese, next above them may US, then comes Germany, France, higher them is English. Canadians, France more or less same. Egypt and Pak more or less same. Arabs are more or less near with US, and their good educated are not bragging much. Also, there is an Other Side of the same. The nature that what is mentioned in the article is mostly happening with EXTROVERT PEOPLE, because they wish to give more priority for expressing their knowledge. And, in case of many INTROVERT intellectuals, when they think of saying or writing something they immediately feel that word/phrase which first flashed in their mind it might be appropriate, and think further and continue deleting in their own mind many more words, and finally they present a very appropriate word, though in the meantime they take time and become slow., but appropriate and up to the point. So, this balanced view and appropriate and up to the desired level only action in many people is the result of LEARNING/STUDIES IN US UNIVERSITIES, and also we can find WITH THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN. Thanks, and regards.

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Vasanth Rv Ab Narayan sir, gratitude for sharing wonderful leads..............i am saving the passage for my reference.................................................i now can understand how the time and circumstances /events experiences have really taken away the ''natural piety'' of child and has stuffed his mind with consequent loads of information .................your observation on ''introvert'' ways of writing confirms the way how rishis have expressed great wisdom in their original way that too in the shortest expressions.................i now can now safely say that all the clutter is due to we lost track of our 'rishi sanskriti' , thanks and regards

Ab Narayan Very true. That is why our ancient rshis left the land (NADU) ans went to the forest to do severe penance (TAPASYAM) and gained higher JNAANODAYAM. So, why they went to forests?; Truly,as you said .. to be away from -- ' loads of information (unwanted!) , and to concentrate on true spirituality. Thank you so much; I highly appreciate about your great nobility of keenness to understand and accept the truth and keenness to know the true reasons behind the intellectual and dedicated strength of our ancient scholars and the rshies; And I feel so far no any scholars of any other culture (either Abrahamic religions, or any other) have shown such depth of knowledge, intellectuality and foresightedness as much, found in our ancient rshies. Thanks, and regards. Abn/-.