I found this saying somewhere along the way during my first years of religion, however, it was until the first adversities occurred that I really gave it an experiential sense.
Ifá teaches us in Otura Nico, that the most refined beauty of a religious is wisdom. What we don't understand is that knowledge is only part of wisdom, and as Ogbe Di tells us, knowledge is distributed.
We come to the feet of the Orishas for various reasons, all in search of growth. We do not realize that everything begins with a decision, the same oddun Ogbe Di teaches us that we kneel at the foot of Oloddumare to choose our destiny Before coming to this world, at some point in the trip we lose consciousness of these choices due to Elenini's onslaught as Oddun Iroso Meyi tells us and we are locked in this physical body without awareness of where we should go, as he tells us. the Oddun Ogbe Yono.
We seek in the Orishas the guide that will lead us to prosperity and prosperity, but as we continue walking in the shadows eager for knowledge of where we should go, because we have forgotten our purpose and our gifts as Oddun Ogunda Dio says, then we walk without faith as Iwory Yekun says, leaving footprints in a random walk.
But it is the Orishas who, through the different circumstances that they put us to the test, as established by the Oddun Obara Wereko, awaken that almost extinct flame of consciousness that lives in each one of us. As the Orishas wake us up We stop being loose leaves in the wind, as the Orishas give us the necessary tools we stop fearing the darkness that lives in our conscience, and we begin to see in the dark like cats, the Oddun Ojuani Meyi tells us, it is at that moment that our spirituality restores the power of our head, reminding that dizzy conscience that the head rules the body as the Oddun Eyiogbe says. At this point in our life knowledge has become experiential, it is no longer theory and we know from experience where we have to go.
Wisdom is a process that is born with knowledge but that is filtered by understanding, To understand, we have to apply. We do nothing with knowing ten stories of each Oddun by heart if we do not apply any at the time that is necessary, the application of knowledge will lead us to understanding.
We are the result of various details as the Oddun Iwory Meyi reveals to us, but we must purify everything harmful from our mind, everything that limits us, take out the garbage as Obara She says so that the process of purifying our consciousness takes place as it is established by the Oddun Otrupon Meyi, just like that that journey to the evolution that we are looking for will begin, And all this is part of the process of awakening consciousness, we cannot achieve wisdom sitting in our comfort zone, this religion is about a journey of continuous improvement that begins with the seed of knowledge but that a fertile soil is required to generate the suckers that allow to give life to that tree that at some point should bear fruit, but you have to know which seed to sow, as Ogbe Ate tells us, you have to know choose the seed that we will implant in our conscience, cAs Orishaoko did, when she saw the seed she knew if it was worth sowing or not.
Not all knowledge will lead you to fulfill your destiny, as Ogbe himself says, if the best way to not know anything is to want to know everything at the same time, we are too hurried to grow and thus we cut the maturation process and the fruits that we get from These can be sour or bland. We all have different times the process of maturation of knowledge must be the precise one for each one of us, but haste leads us to want to walk alone and in this philosophy of the Orishas the needle carries the thread as Oshe Meyi says, the elder authorizes the minor as Oyekun Meyi says and You cannot get knowledge, understanding, and much less wisdom if we break the chain of teaching. which establishes the Oddun Obara Meyi.
Ifá teaches us At Oshe Paure we make a sack out of our life and hang it on the hook of our choice, but we want to live Osa Ika by pretending that the plate that we broke is paid for by someone else. It is each of us who makes a choice, as Oshe Ika says to where my head thinks I'll be there. But life has its own time and that time is protected by the Orishas, they are the ones who are giving us the necessary knowledge for each circumstance and at the same time they are helping us to build the puzzle that is called personal destiny. But the basis will always be our decisions and what we do with the knowledge that the Orishas give us. We must walk towards wisdomNo matter getting it or not, we must walk towards it to achieve understanding of the seed that is germinating in us, when we understand this we will be really aligned with universal wisdom that gave us life called Oloddumare and our life will flow like the river because we will have learned and understood that we cannot evolve in this world without having been part of it.
If you have decided to undertake this journey Remember then that every decision counts, that you must learn to seek the knowledge that germinates appropriately in you, that this process is not achieved without the correct guidance, but in the end you will only eat fruits that you have sown and its flavor will depend on how you have understood the knowledge that was given to you and how you applied it to your life and your environment, always remember what good or bad it does for itself.
May the blessing of all the Orishas always guide and accompany us.
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