IGNORANCE COULD BE DEADLY
There was this story about the ignorant man that one of my mentors
shared with me some years ago. I have decided to share the story with you and I
hope you will enjoy it as well.
The story is about a milkman living in one remote village in a certain
kingdom. His name was Deenu. Deenu decided to build his hut far away from his
village, in the woods after he observed that people no longer values the virtues
of Truth, Piety and honesty. He was very comfortable and preferred the
quietness of the woods rather than the noisy atmosphere of the village.
He lived there alone; without a wife or a servant except his two
cows. He fed them well and took proper care of them. Everyday he took the two
cows to the field to graze and to a nearby lake to drink water. The two cows
gave him enough milk to make him live comfortably. With the milk that the two
cows gave, he earned enough money to live happily.
Deenu was an honest man and was contented with the kind of life he
was living but there was something that keeps bothering him. Quite often, he’s
always worried and wondered why the world was full of so much evil and wickedness.
Each time this thought comes to his mind, his mood changed and he’ll be so sad.
One evening, as Deenu was returning home after selling milk in the
village, he saw a saint sitting and meditating under a tree. Being bothered
again about some of the stories of evil and wickedness he heard from the
villagers, he then decided to meet the saint to enquire from him if he knows
the solution. Deenu slowly walked up to him and waited for the saint to open
his eyes.
After a while, the saint slowly opened his eyes. He was surprised
to see a man patiently sitting beside him.
“What do you want?" asked the saint humbly.
“I want to know what the path to Truth, Piety and honesty is?"
Deenu asked the saint.
The saint smiled and said, “Go to the pond nearby and ask the fish
the same question. She will give you the answer."
Anxiously, Deenu went to the nearby pond and asked the same
question to the fish. The fish said, “O kind man! First, bring me some water to
drink." Deenu was surprised and replied, “You live in water. But you still
want water to drink? How strange!"
At this moment, the fish replied, “You are right. And that gives
you the answer to your question as well. Truth, Piety and honesty are inside
the heart of every man. But being ignorant, he searches for them in the outer
world. Instead of wandering here and there, look within yourself and you will
find them."
This gave an immense satisfaction to Deenu. He thanked the fish and
walked home a wiser man. He changed the way in which he saw this world as well
as himself. From that day, Deenu lived a happier man onward.
He took his best to carry this massage to the rest of his villagers.
All his friends accepted him as their leader and consulted him to overcome
their mental problems.
My dear, there is this saying that ignorance is a disease. The truth
is that; it is not just an ordinary disease but a very deadly one for that
matter.
Merriam Webster dictionary defined ignorance as, "a lack of
knowledge, understanding, or education: the state of being ignorant.”
I have decided to write this post today because, the greatest
challenge is not lack of information or awareness but ignorance occurs when
people assume that a particular kind of knowledge is not useful or important to
them. That is why, the root of ignorance is ‘IGNORE.’
Today many people are either, poor, sick, living with HIV, living
with cancer, diabetes, etc or had died because they ignored certain essential knowledge.
For instance, let’s look at the aspect of our health. I must talk
about this first because your health is the most important factor that
determines your success in life. Unfortunately, many of us know so little about
our health. To many, being healthy simply means waking up strong and able to go
about our daily activities.
Just last week that nation was shocked by the rumored death of Dr.
Chris Ngige (the Hon. Minister of labour, Nigeria), although the story was
later found out to be false. But the truth was that, the actual incident
involved an unidentified visitor to the National Assembly, who reportedly
suddenly took ill while he was still walking along the corridor of the national
assembly building. The unnamed visitor eventually collapsed and died in the
process.
That man some minutes ago would have been described as a very
healthy young man – but the state of your health is not from the look of your
face.
Even in this age of information, you’ll still be amazed how so
many people are still living in ignorance. Our life style today is fast making
our planet more and more dangerous to good health. Smoke pollution, unhygienic habits,
consumption of alcoholic stimulants/drugs, etc.
When last did you check what the statistics are saying about chronic
diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc? It will be an act
of ignorance to wave it aside and be confessing ‘it’s not mine portion.’
Of course it’s nobody’s portion but for someone whose glutathione
level has depleted, such positive confessions is just foolishness. Once you are
above 20 years of age, your glutathione level will start to decline and the symptoms
includes general weakness of the body, aging rapidly, lost of memory, poor
sexual performance, etc. For you, it is possible that this is the first time
you are hearing about Glutathione.
Over the years several researches have been carried out to find
out how to help the human body boost its ability to produce this essential
molecule. As at today, there have been over 98,000 publications about
glutathione in pubmed.org (the USA official library of medical research). After
about 25years of extensive research, Dr Herb Nagasawa ( a Professor of
Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Minnesota, USA ) has
discovered a medical breakthrough for helping our body cells to produce its own
glutathione naturally.
The American National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Veteran’s
Administration Department of Medicine and other scientific institutions funded,
peer-reviewed and published Dr Herb Nagasawa’s research work which demonstrated
the unsurpassed effectiveness of RiboCeine for boosting glutathione.
The good news I have for you today is that, this medical
breakthrough is now being introduced in Nigeria by Max International. Just some
few days ago, this February, 2016, the National Agency for Food, Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given approval for the product to be
marketed to Nigerians.
If you are interested to know more about this new medical
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