True Education : 4. Swami Krishnananda
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26/12/2019.
(Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983)
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TO, PARENTS AND PARENTAGE :
Hence, if education is to be considered as the process of the enlightenment of the human individual in the direction of what the purpose of life is finally, then we may have to know what the purpose of life is. Education is certainly not the accumulation of particular facts of empirical phenomena. It is something different altogether. It is vitally connected to our day-to-day living. A collection of information disconnected to actual existence in the world is not a part of education because it does not illumine the individual. Education is to be considered, therefore, as a medium for shedding proper light on the very structural background of this individual in order that this pattern may expand into a larger dimension to which it actually belongs, of which it is an integral part, which is the true organism, and which has its ambit of action as wide as the total universe itself.
So it is a matter of doubt if we can be safe merely by considering that we are citizens of a little locality, of a village, of a district, of a particular state, or of even a country or a nation. Perhaps there are conditioning factors which determine our existence beyond the ken and operation of even a nation. Today we are accustomed to think in terms of international relations. This is indeed fine, and is exactly as it ought to be, but again we are likely to limit our thoughts, deliberations and considerations of values to man’s welfare only, as if there is nothing else in the world except man. Perhaps very highly qualified people, as you all are here, would be aware that the most powerful forces in the world are not human. There are forces other than human in the world which can create human life or destroy it. Forces of nature should certainly be considered as more powerful in determining the values of human existence than what we call social values, political values, and even psychological values, if we are to consider psychology as a study merely of the individual mind of a person, which it cannot be.
So, we do not seem to be living in a world merely of brothers, sisters, friends, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, bosses, subordinates, employers or employees in the human sense. This is a very unfortunate view of life. As I mentioned, we people here are accustomed to think in light of a message that has been imparted to us by a tremendously powerful stalwart of this modern age, Swami Sivananda, and therefore I cannot help thinking except in that way. It may be my weakness, and it may be anything from your charitable considerations.
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To be continued ....
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26/12/2019.
(Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983)
POST-4.
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TO, PARENTS AND PARENTAGE :
Hence, if education is to be considered as the process of the enlightenment of the human individual in the direction of what the purpose of life is finally, then we may have to know what the purpose of life is. Education is certainly not the accumulation of particular facts of empirical phenomena. It is something different altogether. It is vitally connected to our day-to-day living. A collection of information disconnected to actual existence in the world is not a part of education because it does not illumine the individual. Education is to be considered, therefore, as a medium for shedding proper light on the very structural background of this individual in order that this pattern may expand into a larger dimension to which it actually belongs, of which it is an integral part, which is the true organism, and which has its ambit of action as wide as the total universe itself.
So it is a matter of doubt if we can be safe merely by considering that we are citizens of a little locality, of a village, of a district, of a particular state, or of even a country or a nation. Perhaps there are conditioning factors which determine our existence beyond the ken and operation of even a nation. Today we are accustomed to think in terms of international relations. This is indeed fine, and is exactly as it ought to be, but again we are likely to limit our thoughts, deliberations and considerations of values to man’s welfare only, as if there is nothing else in the world except man. Perhaps very highly qualified people, as you all are here, would be aware that the most powerful forces in the world are not human. There are forces other than human in the world which can create human life or destroy it. Forces of nature should certainly be considered as more powerful in determining the values of human existence than what we call social values, political values, and even psychological values, if we are to consider psychology as a study merely of the individual mind of a person, which it cannot be.
So, we do not seem to be living in a world merely of brothers, sisters, friends, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, bosses, subordinates, employers or employees in the human sense. This is a very unfortunate view of life. As I mentioned, we people here are accustomed to think in light of a message that has been imparted to us by a tremendously powerful stalwart of this modern age, Swami Sivananda, and therefore I cannot help thinking except in that way. It may be my weakness, and it may be anything from your charitable considerations.
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To be continued ....
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