by Mother’s Service Society
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Society is a living organism.
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The sea is a nourishing continent that breeds
life.
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Society is a sea of nourishing human sensations
that constantly inform, educate, organise and lead.
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As there is no moment when we do not breathe,
there is no moment when we do not learn.
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By education we restrict the sense to formal
mental training given to us in the school in several subjects. Of course, it is
education.
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The pity or irony is one's capacity of
education is mutilated, oppressed, and tyrannised into learning what is taught.
Education is thus converted into conditioning.
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It is not wrong for children to be conditioned
at home, at school, at the work spot and the society at large. Till now it was
necessary and inevitable in the circumstances. But that is not education.
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A tiny seed sprouts into the wonder of a tree.
When the seed is put into a bottle and all the requirements are pumped into it,
the seed may sprout but will not grow into a tree. Plant a banyan tree in a pot
and take the greatest care possible, its growth will be limited by the size of
the pot.
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We live in an ocean of humanity, known as
society. In reality society means to us the hundred or thousand people we
relate to. Maybe for most it is only ten.
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Man has the genius to shut himself into his
shell of selfishness and feel cosy as long as his wants, rather his desires are
fulfilled.
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Man who does not know the society at large, and
who does not have any intense feeling for it in these days of global media,
cannot conceive of God who is vaster than the society. His God is his church or
temple idol.
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No wonder people do not CONCEIVE of
education in its original native splendour.
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The Individual Divine learning of the
Transcendental Spirit is education proper. This is not an idea the world is
familiar with.
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After all, Man's highest instrument is Mind.
His practical instrument is his body. He enjoys thinking with the mental
element in his body. That is known as efficiency when organised. That is at the
basis of science today.
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Just now we see the West has emphasized UNDERSTANDING in
preference to memorisation. It is great. That understanding has yet not
risen to thinking.
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The history of civilisation can be written as
the record of progress in education.
1.
His physical body learned to survive by vital
sensation.
That was the
inheritance from his animal ancestors.
2.
He lived in herds of men. He learned to value
collective security.
Education of vital sensation to preserve the vital body is upgraded over centuries from Individual preservation to collective security.
3.
The collective security gave the pride of place
to physical prowess. Its other side was to destroy the weak, even if it is his
own children.
Organised physical strength.
4.
The physical coming into its own has thrown up
the leadership of a BRUTE. The behaviour of a brute,
the cruelty of the malicious, the tyranny of the vulgar became the culture of
the period.
Physical strength becomes crude culture.
5.
Physical withdrew into the immediate rear,
giving place to vital pride that went along with ostentatious splendour. When
the line is crossed by the equilibrium, brutality rises in full.
The physical with its splendour of cruelty lies in wait just below the surface.
6.
Pardon becomes a way of life. Prior to that,
physical punishment remains but the victim is allowed to choose the mode of
punishment.
Crude physical acquires the 'magnanimity' of mitigation.
7.
Fairness emerged in the physical crudeness –
Duel came into existence.
8.
Duel is abolished in law, but flourished under
the surface.
Physical dual gives place to vital annihilation without any semblance of right, good or honour.
9.
Parliamentary democracy was the first occasion
to replace might by right – the right of the ignorant.
Today Parliaments are irrational, vulgar, crude, and false. Still this is the best available. To know their true character and suffer them is wisdom. To honour them is foolish.
10.
The progress of the English language as
expected of a gentleman has anticipated all the levels of progress mind has to
go through for another thousand years.
Nothing in the world appears suddenly. Its true beginning is the beginning of creation.
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Till 500 or 400 years ago, education meant
experience, experience of age, except for the royalty and top echelon of
aristocracy.
First discovery of descent.
12.
To extend it even a little, the physical of the
collectivity had to give up its possessiveness and recognise the reality of
others' existence.
Selfishness relents, cracks show up.
13.
Selfishness upgrades from vital selfishness to
mental selfishness. It means those who approve of your idea are your friends.
Broadening selfishness into possible semblance of selflessness.
14.
Reason is coordinating intelligence. It is EGO.
To know reason is the knowledge of Ego is worldly wisdom.
15.
Intellectuality is efficient ego, going by the
name of Reason.
Intellectuality is inert, is an efficient bar to knowledge.
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Knowledge begins with insight and intuition. It
matures when the intuition transfers itself from outside to inside.
It is supramental intuition. To it there is no evil.
The above 16 levels can be
subdivided into 160 or 160,000 for practical purposes. Let us say they exist on
a scale of 1 to 1000. Human knowledge is now at 7 or 10. The scientists are
enamoured of Asat and are exploring the negative depths of existence believing
that it is all existence. It is the privilege of FOLLY.
There is no EDUCATION in the entire zone of
science as it exists today.
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Education is a process of descent. Experience
is ascent.
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Mind getting knowledge on its own and offering
it to the vital and body is Education.
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Education is the experience of thoughts that by
their transparent depths reach the substance of the Mind so that it can
powerfully move the body to action.
Experience
is Education.
Education
is the Experience of the Mind.
Skill
is the experience of the body.
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Knowledge is above, not below.
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Knowledge is the expression of light in the
Mind.
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Light is the aspect of Spirit in consciousness.
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Consciousness is the conscious experience of
Being.
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Being is the Self of Existence.
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Below are the body, vital and Mind each with an
element or understanding.
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Body understands by the repeated movements
remembered.
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Vital understands by the success or failure of
its impact.
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Mind understands sensation and thought.
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Conception is the highest function of Mind.
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Conception in Silence opens subtle planes. It
makes one precocious or even a prodigy.
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Conception changes into vision by the mind
transcending Silence.
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Mind giving up the media of Silence, light,
etc., enables you to get direct knowledge which is Intuition.
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Intuition is the plane of Genius.
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Genius belongs to one aspect of the
myriad-faced knowledge which is one of the 12 aspects of the Spirit.
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Just now we need not go beyond Spirit to Sat,
and Absolute.
The experience of the Rishis
and all those who have made a little progress in yoga is Education is a descent
of knowledge from above into the mind. What we call education is
the descent of information, skill, capacity down to the body for it to act
upon. Looking for knowledge in Matter, Life, or by scholarly research is like
refusing to use the telephone directory and going about collecting individual
telephone numbers. To say the least, it is worship of blindness.
This scale is broad. In the
last hundred years general education has moved in horizontal expansion and not
in vertical growth of quality. On a scale of 1 to 1000 one hundred years has
succeeded in moving education from point 7 to point 8, from memorisation to
understanding. India, in view of the inner light, has the opportunity to
jump to 80 from point 3 if only she links the present to the potential of the
past heritage. If all the progressive schools in
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A question arises, what are the prerequisites?
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Children should not be taught, should be
encouraged to learn on their own.
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No discipline of any kind is to be imposed,
except that which is required by hygienic and safety.
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Scolding or abusing or threatening is child
abuse.
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No attempt should be made to evaluate the level
of learning.
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Comparison is odious, ranking is rankling.
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A teacher who is unable to SEE
that all children are EQUAL should not be employed. All
children are learning from the environment all the time. The teacher is
superstitious to wish to condition the child to learn what he teaches.
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Teachers should know that teaching is a PROCESS of
their learning.
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Facts and information can be given. There is no
harm. To consider that knowledge is stupid.
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What the child learns is to organise its
personality and all the facts, information, and ideas go to that organisation.
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No teacher who does not understand her own
personality can be a teacher, as she will NOT see
the personality of the child.
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How to protect the child from the dark influence
of the parent is learnt by knowing the measure of the teacher's inner darkness.
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Teaching is not education, as the waves are not
the ocean.
To link the Spiritual
heritage of
The New Organisation is
ready. People must want it.
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The greatest practical value of this scale is
that when the country moves two or three points on the scale, even one point,
education will undergo a great revolution. This is lost sight of by the world
today.
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If one compares the best and worst schools in
the same town, the difference will be just discipline. Take a nationally known
school and other schools. Comparing them, you will find in the best schools
they will teach all the lessons and in other school much of the syllabus will
be uncovered.
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Take the most extraordinary school in the
country, compare it with an ordinary school. There will be no absolute
difference except discipline, teaching, coaching, thoroughness in execution.
Where is the question of rising one point or three points?
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Indian educationists are capable, well
informed. They can design any system easily to suit the nation. They
must know what is possible and that it is reachable. Then such a system can
readily be created. It will take
The belief in the superiority of the Western system rules. Indians are aware of rituals, slokas, mantras. They do not know what Spirituality is and what it is capable of when it expresses through life. It is unknown to the world. Examples are not there. If there are any, they are like a flash of lightning and will not hold true or real in an unformed Mind. To do that is the work of a spiritual pioneer.
The
Western system of education can produce and has produced wonderful technology. It
is a system that organises arch Ignorance. Ours is no education. It is
aping those who are groping. Our knowledge does not exist in science as it is
practised today. We know all that a man achieves emanates from his mind, not
from his external experience. The West has made the cardinal error of mistaking
the effect for cause. Where does the Genius, be it Ramanujam or Einstein get
his knowledge? It comes from INSIDE.
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Today we give training. What does it mean? The
hands and the body are taught to express what the mind knows.
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Beyond the Mind lies the Soul and Supermind.
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To devise a system that teaches the Mind what
the Soul knows is what I advocate. S has an ability, but she
can't transmit it to others.
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Mother has Supramental Knowledge. She
constantly gave it to us. It is all in writing. First SHE
gives the results. Now we have to know the process by which SHE
gave it to us. It is the Mystery. Beyond lies the essence which is Supermind or
Brahman in Supermind.
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All of us have copiously received the results
of prayer but never bothered to learn the process.
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The PROCESS is
utter Truthfulness in all aspects of life and its perfect expression in every
minute of our existence.
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All human ways are false. Rituals of every kind
are organised falsehood in the subtle plane with the darkness strengthened.
Rituals, festivals, vital dissipations are the centre of our lives today.
Can
you give it up totally?
Do
you see they are dark forces?
Are
you enamoured of Light and Peace?
Do
you see they express the Spirit?
Do
you SEE when Light expresses in
life, the finite life expands to its original Infinity of Spirit.
The
West is actively and childishly ORGANISING the
Ignorant darkness intensely.
As
the world is run by inconscient energy, their success shines out.
The
Rishis gave up life daunted by the fight against darkness.
Sri
Aurobindo has brought the Superconscient down to transform the subconscient
into Divine Light.
Make
ONE experiment in Life. Stand by that result.
That
is Education.
It
is near at hand.
The
world will gratefully receive it when we practise it.
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