TRUE EDUCATION : 6. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA
===================================== --------------------------------------------------------------- 18/04/2020. (Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983) Post-6. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Perhaps a human being is not a physical body. It is not one unit in a zoo, but it is an outlook of life. An outlook of life perhaps differentiates the human way of thinking from the animal’s intense selfishness and the mere biological impulse of the plant and the vegetable. ##But here is a moot point before us. What is the consideration that is necessary for converting an animal into a human being? Let each one of us dispassionately probe into his own or her own heart and decide if there is something inside which is akin to the animal, akin to the snake or the tiger, the scorpion, the vindictive beasts of the jungle. ###Are we also hungry and thirsty, and eager to live somehow ...