The instruction manual of LIFE
The human being and his transactions in life is complex. The human being is a conscious mechanism. Unlike machines, man is intelligent and conscious. When you buy a machinery, you get an instruction manual to operate it. Often we find that people operate the gadget without referring to the instruction manual. Often they end up damaging the equipment. They become impatient and feel no need to refer to the manual. Just as all machinery comes with instruction manuals, so is it with the human conscious-machinery.
The human mechanism is far more complex than the most intricate and complex super computer, because it is intelligent and conscious. Therefore, you cannot afford to neglect the instruction manual before operating this human mechanism. The most complex and powerful machinery invented by human intelligence is said to be the super computer. It is estimated that the complexities and technology involved in the so-called powerful supercomputer is less than one tenth of the complexity involved in the functioning of an insect like a mosquito or an ant!
It is further estimated that it takes over two hundred thousand supercomputers to match the power and technology of the human brain. The average single brain cell dwarfs the capacity of the average personal computer. Think of the true potential of your brain. It is composed of millions of super-bio-computer chips that are super-bio-computers themselves.
“The Brain is often compared with objects and performance figures in the real world to give us an idea of the complexity and power it has. One example is that if you compared all of the world’s telephone systems with the brain, by comparison they would only occupy space that was the size of a small pea! Another comparison is that the cray computer, one of the largest computers in the world, can make four hundred million calculations in a second. If it did that for one hundred years, it would equal to what the brain can do in a minute!” This is the potency every one of us command. You are, therefore, at the moment commanding an instrument that is probably over a million times more powerful than a super computer. How can you imagine operating such a potent tool without referring to an instruction manual?
The question now is what is the instruction manual for operating the human machinery? It is the scriptures that contain the instructions and values to use the tools within you. People think that just because you are born into a good family or a cultured family or even from a spiritually inclined family, you will imbibe this technique of living. This often does not necessarily happen. Unless you spend time and effort to imbibe it, it does not come naturally. Just because you are born and growing up as a human being, that does not mean that you know the technique, values and principles of human life. The proof of your ignorance of knowledge of life and living is that you lose your mental peace while you plunge into dynamic action. More responsibilities you take up greater your mental pressure you feel. The instruction manual for human beings, therefore, is the scriptures.
It does not matter if it is the Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads or the Dhamapada. All the scriptures have profound and universal messages for humanity to understand life and to operate the human machinery to live with the dignity and prestige of a human being.
