The
process of education begins with preparing one’s intellect to receive humbly
what benefits not one or two, but many. Humility helps one to learn from the
meanest. Simplicity rejects the complicated that is generally pretentious and
not genuine. Absence of duality and discrimination ensures that what is being
received is for the benefit of many.
Children have these qualities, but they cannot differentiate
beneficial from the harmful. That is why they need guidance. However, the
quality of guidance depends on whether their guide has actually unlearned the duality and has settled in
Oneness after learning to differentiate between the good from bad. Here, our
emphasis is not on training and education of children, but on our efforts for
gathering the true knowledge to enrich our lives. If our intellect is not
appropriately prepared, any amount of studies of great scriptures and
philosophies or listening to discourses from the man of wisdom cannot add anything
to our knowledge.
If our intellect is well prepared, experiencing is the best
way of learning. Through experiencing we can learn as to what is actually
beneficial for all of us, but the precondition of preparing our intellect with
simplicity, humility and tuning of our intellect with universal consciousness
can never be dispensed with.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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