Satyopanisad

[Guest guest]

Swami! Today when we meet students and ask them what they are doing, we hear

them say that they are in the computer line or doing an M. Tech. Course. We want

to know Swami's views on this craze for computer studies?

 

One of the most important things you should know is that all your modern

education is within you. You are the `Computer'. You are the `Generator'. There

is `Electricity' in you. There is `Heat' in you. You are the `Magnet'.

Everything around you is nothing but the `reflection', `reaction' and `resound'

of your inner being.

 

You say that a computer is great. You stand in front of a computer and put a

question, " Who is my wife? " Do you get the answer? No. Why? The computer should

be fed with some information which you get back as and when you want it, isn't

it so? It shows only what has already been supplied to it. Nothing new! It was,

after all, a man who made the computer. So, naturally, man is greater than a

computer. Your brain is a computer with all your memories and experiences

recorded therein. When a mosquito bites you even while you are talking to me,

you will pick it up and throw it out. How? There is communication. On the way,

when your eye finds a thorn, the leg automatically passes it, but doesn't step

on it. Why? There is a magnetic force within you.

 

When I ask you, " What are you doing? " some of you may say, `M. Tech'. What do

you mean by `M. Tech.'? You may reply, `Master of Technology'. Then who is

`master'? What is " Technology " ? A person who has control over his senses is a

`master', but not everybody. You are merely `Misters' - Mr. Rao, Mr. Kumar and

so on, and not `Master'. You should use your `knowledge' for the advancement of

society; otherwise, it turns into `allergy'. You should go to society with your

knowledge, `Take knowledge'; this is `technology'. Otherwise it is

`tricknology'. It can never be `technology'.