True Education and Man and God

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The mind is freakish like a baby. It is the instrument of our

cognizing things that are " not " in both the waking and the dream

states. Therefore, the remedy lies in the perfect control of the

mind through a steady reeducation of it. Mind is to be controlled in

its tendency to roam about as it lilkes among the sense-objects

seeking joy and satisfaction and it to be reeducated to renounce its

false fears, fantastic desires, illusory sorrows and fancied joys.

 

Hence the intellet should be trained to control the mind to

recognise the Highest. The function of the intellet

is " discrimination " which is otherwise called the faculty of

right " understanding " . A true intellect must have the

right " understanding " to discriminate between what is to be feared

and what is not to be feared. Acharya Sankara speaks of four

qualifications necessary for spiritual attainment. One must have

discrimination, spirit of renunciation and dispassion, faith in the

instructions given to us by our teachers. One msut also have

possibilities in attaining the goal and always practise self-

surrender. The longing to have a direct contact with the Infinite

must be there.

 

True education brings about internal harmony in every individual and

proper adjustmetn to his environment. A spiritual seeker must

constantly strive hard to stand apart from the shackling effects of

the environments. According to the Geeta, man is the master of

circumstances. To the extent that he comes to assert this mastery,

to that extent he is evolved.

 

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