'Purity of Intention and Honesty of Thought'

Developing Rational Thinking.

Do you want to have the power of reading a person for understanding his or her qualities and potentiality?

What is an attitude and how is it formed?

Do you want to tap the power of your thinking?

Do you want to become an achiever by overcoming what is called the influence of your negative environment or past experience?

Do you want to develop your thought in the same line. Then proceed.

Rationality

What is rationality? ... Is it being rational?... Is it being reasonable?... Is it the opposite of being irrational? ...Does it refer to the functioning of the mind based on reason?...

These are some of the reflections we get at first instance or at first sight or insight.

The Power of the Mind is increased by questioning. Hence 'Rationality' refers to 'The Power of Questioning'. In other words it is 'A Constant Search For Answers'. A person is judged by the power of questioning. Thus one should have a questioning attitude to be truly rational. There is a reason or a purpose behind everything. To be rational means 'finding' the basic reason or true purpose for everything.

Right Questioning Attitude

Now let us find out the rationality of 'questioning'. When do we begin to question or search. As a child, right? A child always has a basic reason or a genuine purpose for any search or questioning. As the child grows it is limited by the answers it received from the environment or the past experience.

Man is basically and truly rational as a child. After becoming an adult the same child loses its power of childlike questioning attitude. Thus we understand that 'quest' or 'search' or 'questioning' is to know or to have knowledge. This is how scientific search or research or science itself has come into existence.

The other aspect of right questioning is developed or retained by having a childlike or honest questioning. In other words there should be a basic reason or a genuine purpose behind every 'quest' or 'questioning'.

There should be 'purity of intention and honesty of thought' to be truly rational.
Thus to develop rational thinking one should strike a right balance between emotion and intelligence. In other words to lead a properous life one needs to coordinate the functioning of the heart and the brain.

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