True Education : 3. Swami Krishnananda

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01/12/2019.
(Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983)
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TO,  PARENTS AND PARENTAGE :

We seem to have an erroneous notion of freedom and independence, which seems to be the reason behind our apparent conflict. Really, there should not be any such conflict because freedom and conflict are opposites. We have not yet found a completely satisfying solution to this problem which is partly sociological, partly psychological, and to some extent even a determining factor in political administration. We cannot segregate aspects of human life as if they are watertight compartments. 

There is no such thing as political freedom somewhere in a corner, social life in some other corner, psychological life somewhere else, and so on. These varieties of human necessity may be considered as facets of a single crystal of human life as a whole. Facets of a crystal are not isolated from one another. They are not merely not independent of one another, they are not independent existences at all. They are media of the reflection of the total that is called the crystal, the diamond.

So political administration, the values called administrative or managemental in any sense of the term, and all other facets of life are not to be regarded as independent existences by themselves. They are reflecting media of a total need that is felt by life as a whole; hence, life is a single completeness, an organism. An organism is a total living being whose parts, though they seem to be different from one another, are absolutely related in a vital fashion to the whole to which they belong – as the limbs of our body, for instance.


To be continued ....


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