TRUE EDUCATION : 8. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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Monday, August 17, 2020. 8:48.PM.
(Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983)
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There is the conflict of one person with another person in human society. It is not true that a human individual, any given person, can love another unconditionally, under any circumstance, for all times. Basically, an unconditional affection and love for another is found to be not possible, for reasons which each one knows. I cannot love you unconditionally. Under given conditions I am your friend, and when these conditions break, I am no more your friend. So there is a basic foundational and essential difficulty in human society of it being possible for a human individual to be truly in love with another. Our apparent collaboration with one another politically, socially, economically or otherwise seems to be an outward adjustment or adaptation based on a secret impossibility for there being an achievement at all. This is social conflict.


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Another conflict is psychological conflict, which is the seed of this social conflict I mentioned already. There is a nonalignment of the inner layers of the human personality. We are not just physical bodies; we are not a heap of bones, flesh and blood, muscles and marrow, and perhaps everyone knows we are something more than that. We have a mind which thinks, we have the breath that breathes, we have a reason that argues, and perhaps we have something deeper than even reason that hopes for a future betterment of existence.


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But these layers of our personality collide with one another. There is a jamming of these layers of our personality, and we become psycho pathological individuals rather than integrated persons. As what an individual is, that society has to be, how can there be human society if the human individual himself is absent?

To be continued ...

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