Guest guest Posted December 15, 1999 Report Share Posted December 15, 1999 >> But it was not the result of a superior gurukula training--rather, the >> inauspicious, tragic result of gross neglect and abuse. Abuse of a good >> thing does not turn the good thing into bad. As in the example above, if I >> take a superexcellent motor vehicle and drive it into the wall of your >> apartment building or home, that doesn't mean that the superior vehicle >> has become inferior. It simple means that I, the driver, am a flaming >> idiot! Not the designer of the car, not the car itself, but the *driver* >> was the inferior component. >You are argueying on slippering ground here... Not at all. Actual gurukula is the best possible system of education for boys, for it is based upon guru-sadhu-sastra. >What if there was a construction failure, or a defect in the material in your >"superior vehicle", that can also happens sometimes, despite ones best wishes? Exceptions are exceptions--not the standard. >Normally an experiment is tested Again, the "gurukula experiment" was not a mundane experiment of speculative thought or creativity. It was administered by the empowered mahabhagavata representative of the Supreme Absolute Truth.. In other words, it was not gurukula, but the *attempt to establish it*, which was the "experiment." Whether that attempt would succeed or fail, gurukula, as certified by guru-sadhu-sastra, remains the timeless essential system of spiritual and material education for boys. --gkd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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