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Education is a Process of Enlightenment - 5. Swami Krishnananda.

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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Students of 18th batch Vedanta course of Sandeepany Sandhanalaya Mumbai along with their Acharya Swami Tejomayananda and ashram residents installed Lord Ganesha with lots of fervour and fanfare. 9.10.2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 10, 2021. 6:48. AM. (Spoken on July 26, 1976.) Post-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Students of 18th batch Vedanta course of Sandeepany Sandhanalaya Mumbai along with their Acharya Swami Tejomayananda and ashram residents installed Lord Ganesha with lots of fervour and fanfare. 9.10.2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today-Vinayaka Chathurthy. Indian metaphysics makes out that what we call matter is an expression of the Universal Spirit, and so matter is an e...

Education is a Process of Enlightenment - 4. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 11, 2021. 6:48. AM. (Spoken on July 26, 1976.) Post-4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the state of deep sleep we exist in a condition bereft of physical consciousness. How can we find out what our condition in the state of deep sleep is when we are bereft of physical and social consciousness? Our state of being in deep sleep is something impersonal, really speaking. Our body is not there and our mind is not functioning, and yet we exist. That means to say, it is possible to exist bereft of physical and mental consciousness, but ordinarily it is impossible for us to conceive such a condition. The metaphysical aspect of the situation is that our essential nature is revealed in the state of deep sleep. The memory that we subsequently have of having slept proves that a conscious su...

Education is a Process of Enlightenment - 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April  30, 2021. 11:22. AM. (Spoken on July 26, 1976.) Post-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All this is a part of the enterprise of the social individual who is man, but we now come to a larger question as to why there is any kind of effort on the part of the human being. The need to maintain a body or to study the mind or to live comfortably in life is an effort at the achievement of something which is to be clear first. The pursuit of knowledge as well as any kind of activity in the world has an aim behind it. Now I am coming to an essential point that we have to recognise the aim of life first before we try to do anything in life. We do not study things for nothing. There is a reason behind it. Whether education is physical, psychological, intellectual, scientific or spiritual, what is the reason for our pursuit of this process...

Education is a Process of Enlightenment - 2. Swami Krishnananda.

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   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, March 25, 2021. 07:18. AM. (Spoken on July 26, 1976.) Post-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So there is a need to go into the depths of the very processes of knowledge before we enter into the field of education. The psychology of education is a precedent to the pursuit of the real progress in education. It has been said that education is the process of the revelation of the perfection that is already in the human being. This is a maxim which makes out that there is what is called perfection, and all knowledge is a pursuit of perfection. Perfection means completeness in every respect, and that which is complete should be so both outwardly as well as inwardly. A partial observation and partial knowledge of any object cannot be regarded as perfection in knowledge. The system of physical education which introduces the techniqu...

Education is a Process of Enlightenment - 1. Swami Krishnananda

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February 04, 2021. 07:15. AM. (Spoken on July 26, 1976.) Post-1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many a time we are told that there is a spirit different from the body, and therefore, the pursuit of the objectives physical are different from the pursuit spiritual. There are people who are moving exclusively in the spiritual line as separated from the path of physical life in the phenomenal world. The life spiritual and the life temporal have always been separated. We have also been wrongly told that the West is mostly temporal in its pursuits and the East is spiritual. It is not possible to pursue only one aspect of truth because truth is inclusive of all the aspects. The spiritual pursuit is not something exclusive of the life physical, nor is it possible to live a successful physical life minus the s...

TRUE EDUCATION : 11. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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  ------------------------------------- Tuesday, November 17, 2020. 07:51.AM. (Keynote address given at a conference on e Location in Delhi on October 21, 1983) Post-11. ======================== But there is a security already within us which defies this sense of insecurity posed by this problem of not being sure of anything in this world. The very hopes of mankind for a better future, notwithstanding the fact of the transiency of all things, is the proof of the immortality of the soul of man and the deathlessness of human values. The deathlessness of human values would mean the deathlessness of eternal values. --------------------- Here I have only set up certain questions, problems to shakeup our own personality from the complacency that we may be entertaining in a state of ignorance, not knowing that our highest knowledge is the worst of ignorance, finally speaking. We know nothing of the facts of nature or the truths of life, and perhaps the time has come to respect these deepe...

TRUE EDUCATION : 10. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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  ----------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 25, 2020. 08:51.AM. (Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983) Post-10. ------------------------------------------- The Mahabharata is the problem and the battle of existence. It is the day-to-day conflict we are facing which is embodied in this masterly epic we call the Mahabharata. The human individual – yourself, myself, and everybody – is the Arjuna, and Sri Krishna, who gives the answer, is something we are not seeing with our eyes. We have not found our Krishna, though we are here as Arjunas. Perhaps if these Arjunas who are here in this world were to find their Krishna, there would be no need for these seminars and these discussions; perhaps there would be no necessity for any kind of argument and deliberation, because there would be no problems. There would be no problems because each one would understand the other in the light of what each one is basically. ------------...