TRUE EDUCATION : 6. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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18/04/2020.
(Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983)
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#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 or other like the plants in the garden or the trees in the jungle, or is there something more in us? 

####We will certainly say there is something more in us. If it is not there, it should be there.
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#But what is it that should be there? 

##This takes us to the philosophy of education together with its psychology, and within this time limit before us, we cannot go into the deeper problems that may arise one after another when we plumb further and further into this edifice of the very structural pattern of humanity itself.
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#Thus we are faced with certain difficult questions. The basic difficulty is the problem of clearly understanding the relationship that seems to obtain between one person and another person, which is called the science of sociology, and the relationship that seems to be there among the inner layers of one’s own personality, which is called psychology. 

##Something more is there which cannot be set aside as irrelevant. On deep consideration we will find that it is more important than even sociology, political science and psychology, and that it is the human being’s relationship with the universe itself, which we may call cosmology. 

###These are not the important issues of our business life or commercial attitude of existence, but we cannot be gainers or profiteers in the commerce of society if the conditioning factors of the ultimate success of human existence are completely lost.

To be continued ...


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