Wisdom

Wisdom is perhaps the greatest virtue for every situation. It lets us think before we dive in to something that can hurt us and trap us. If we go living our lives without wisdom, then life is not worth living, as we are only abusing ourselves. Intelligence isn't as important; the wise will be much more successful in his life situation. However, spending our lives trying to learn everything in the world in order to gain wisdom is too long of a route to take. The truly wise would know not to take the long road to wisdom. Well, where should we start?

Solomon is known as the wisest man in The Bible. He asked God for wisdom, and he got much more. He is wise enough to not to become attached to the effects of God, such as wealth. This is why he asked for wisdom instead of wealth. What made him so wise? It was the wisdom and knowledge of God.

Like I said, there is a shortcut to wisdom, and it is indeed the wisdom of God. You could say that wisdom of many things in the world is vital, so that suggests that we should be pointed in many directions to attain diversity. What is so great is that your focus doesn't need to be multi pointed in order to get the same effect; it can be one-pointed toward God. Since he is the cause of all effects, knowledge of Him is knowledge of all his effects.

In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, there is a section named Powers. It shows the effects of yoga. Yoga means union (with God), and that shows that being one-pointed toward God is basically yoga. A yogi is given all the powers needed to serve as the aware Son of God. There are no limitations at all. Yes, you are granted all of the occult powers. These wise yogis knew that they shouldn't seek occult powers, since they are God's effects. Nevertheless, they are granted all of them anyways from seeking the wisdom of God. This is what Jesus did.

A living example of this, however, would undoubtedly be Mahavatar Babaji. He has passed all limitations, and knows exactly how to help every single individual. For people who have sought spiritual guidance from him, he knew everything about them before talking to them. He knew exactly how to help them the most, whether it was touching their base of the spine or yelling in their face. He has used his followers for certain spiritual purposes through the ages, as seen on the Sanskrit Classics website, http://www.sanskritclassics.com/OmPage.htm

"He has been serving the world for a long time through many people and by revealing so many disciplines, as follows:"

Jnana Yoga: Through Dakshina Murti
Hatha Yoga: Through Maha Buddha Baba
Raja Yoga: Through Sankara in the eighth century
Raja Yoga: Through Kabir in the fifteenth century
Kriya Yoga: Through Yogiraj Sri Sri Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasay
Tantra Yoga: Through Brahmani
Nada or Sabda Yoga: Through Burua Baba
Bhakti Yoga: Through Paramhansa Brahmananda
Mansa Yoga: Through Hairakhan Baba
Mantra Yoga: Through Nim Karoli Baba
Pasupat Yoga: Through Sombari (Somari) Baba
Purna Yoga (Purna Kriya Yoga): Through Swami Satyeswarananda Vidyaratna Babaji.

Be wise, and seek the wisdom of God.