The True Meaning Of Education
Agang of thieves entered a bank to rob it. They made the employees stand facing the wall with their hands on the wall. After emptying the bank vaults, they started taking the aluables such as cash, watch and hones that the employees were carrying with them. One of the employees, on noticing what was happening, quickly gave a cover to his friend who was standing next to him. His friend asked, Why are you giving me something when the robbers are emptying the Docket?" The employee answered, I just returned $200 that I owed you." We are so cunning. Seekers ask me, "My mind is such a problem. I am not able to decipher how my mind is working. How do I do that?" It is impressive to know you are Observing your mind. Mind is nothing out thoughts. Have you observed that thoughts go on repeating themselves? Ask yourself, why are my thoughts getting repeated? Then you will see, it is because you have not digested the experiences of life. If you eat an apple and don’t digest the apple, the undigested apple creates stomach disorders. Similarly, if experiences are not digested it repeats itself. What does it mean to digest the experiences in life? We have to learn from our experiences how to gettheright meaning from the experience. We have to get an uplifting meaning rather than whipping meaning. Then, even through failures, we become richer. Walt Disney failed many times, but learnt the right lessons and hence failure was not frustrating for him. Rather, it was fertiliser for his creativity. Also, one has to learn the art of ending one's past and not constantly fret and fume over it. "I went through a divorce and that pains me," someone said. I said, "Learn to end that incident in your mind instead of carrying it." You are carrying the burden of yesterday. And hence you are not alert to the present and not sensitive to the present. The dissatisfaction of the past is polluting the present. Teach your mind to leave the past, let go of the past. Learn from past failures. Let it teach you the right lessons. What is education? An ignorant person does not know himself. A learned man is stupid for he knows only from books and not from his experiences. Education helps understanding that happens through self-observation. Our present education system helps us to get employment and earn money. True education helps us to understand our conflict, to understand the stupid ways of our mind, to end our hurt, and thus learn to optimise life and not be a victim of situations.
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Courtesy : Swami Sukhabodhananda Speaking Tree,Times of India
The True Meaning Of Education
Agang of thieves entered a bank to rob it. They made the employees stand facing the wall with their hands on the wall. After emptying the bank vaults, they started taking the aluables such as cash, watch and hones that the employees were carrying with them. One of the employees, on noticing what was happening, quickly gave a cover to his friend who was standing next to him. His friend asked, Why are you giving me something when the robbers are emptying the Docket?" The employee answered, I just returned $200 that I owed you." We are so cunning. Seekers ask me, "My mind is such a problem. I am not able to decipher how my mind is working. How do I do that?" It is impressive to know you are Observing your mind. Mind is nothing out thoughts. Have you observed that thoughts go on repeating themselves? Ask yourself, why are my thoughts getting repeated? Then you will see, it is because you have not digested the experiences of life. If you eat an apple and don’t digest the apple, the undigested apple creates stomach disorders. Similarly, if experiences are not digested it repeats itself. What does it mean to digest the experiences in life? We have to learn from our experiences how to gettheright meaning from the experience. We have to get an uplifting meaning rather than whipping meaning. Then, even through failures, we become richer. Walt Disney failed many times, but learnt the right lessons and hence failure was not frustrating for him. Rather, it was fertiliser for his creativity. Also, one has to learn the art of ending one's past and not constantly fret and fume over it. "I went through a divorce and that pains me," someone said. I said, "Learn to end that incident in your mind instead of carrying it." You are carrying the burden of yesterday. And hence you are not alert to the present and not sensitive to the present. The dissatisfaction of the past is polluting the present. Teach your mind to leave the past, let go of the past. Learn from past failures. Let it teach you the right lessons. What is education? An ignorant person does not know himself. A learned man is stupid for he knows only from books and not from his experiences. Education helps understanding that happens through self-observation. Our present education system helps us to get employment and earn money. True education helps us to understand our conflict, to understand the stupid ways of our mind, to end our hurt, and thus learn to optimise life and not be a victim of situations.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Sukhabodhananda kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Swami Sukhabodhananda Speaking Tree,Times of India