Making Sense: Understanding Can Change the World

By DR. PRASHANT KAKODAY

If someone is asleep and you tell him
he is asleep, there is no one to listen,
no one to understand.

"Born in India and presently based in Cambridge, UK, Dr Prashant Kakoday is a medical doctor with a background in ENT surgery and Integrated Health. A student and teacher with Brahma Kumaris for over 30 years, Dr Kakoday's main area of interest has been the relationship between spirituality, science and excellence in human potential.
He has spoken about the spiritual and holistic principles of life and health in more than 80 countries at universities, medical schools and organisations, including the W.H.O and the Medical Teaching Program within the U.S.A.
He presently coordinates the activities of the Brahma Kumaris in Cambridge. His lectures cover subjects such as, Spiritual Intelligence, Science of Happiness, the Subconscious Mind, and Spiritual Health."

• Language: English
• Publisher: BK Publications
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781886872998

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Kumaris

BECOMING FREE

Wake up to the awareness of an eternal prince.

Understand what is the ‘beggar’ attitude and how to become free from it.

The Beggar Life

The essence of the spiritual message is that there is a higher consciousness and at present we are somewhere lower, as if we are not fully awake. Different words are used to tell us that there is a problem.

A big limitation within this is that, if someone is asleep and you tell him he is asleep, there is no one to listen, no one to understand. Only when he wakes up does he realise that he was asleep. If someone is unconscious and you tell him he is unconscious, it does not mean anything to him. This is what Plato calls ‘We don’t know that we don’t know’. We are in a double lock, in double ignorance.

It is useful for us to know the situation so that we can find a way out of it and wake up. We use the image of a prince who has forgotten that he is a prince and thinks he is a beggar. It is as if he is under a spell and he thinks he is a beggar. Someone comes and tells him ‘You are a prince’ and he says ‘I am a prince? Thank you very much, but have you got a coin for me?’ He hears the word prince, but he is deeply entrenched in the beggar awareness. In the beggar awareness, whenever he gets some coins he is happy but if he loses the coins he is