Week 5- Day 5
Once Ravi Shankar Maharaj went to a School to give speech. Everyone was asking him for an autograph and a small girl has especially come to ask his autograph. He replied that I will definitely give my autograph but in return you have to do something. The little girl asked what she could do. Ravi Shankar Maharaj asked her to sacrifice tea and she agreed to it. After 10 years a letter came to Ravi Shankar Maharaj's house. It was from the same girl who had sacrificed tea. The girl wrote that with his permission she had left tea, however, now that her exams are nearing it is necessary to be awake late nights and hence required permission to drink tea again. Ravi Shankar Maharaj replied to her that she can drink tea if she wanted to stay awake for her exams. He also wrote that by doing this you might be successful in your exams but you are actually failing in the exam of life. After 5 days the girl again replied that she might fail in the exams but will not drink tea as she did not want to fail in the exam of life. After a month the girl again wrote saying that she never had tea and studied well and secured the second place in the board exams!
There are four things to be discussed in relation to Education:
1. Well Educated:
There is a difference between being educated and being Well educated. Educated means if you get good knowledge and well educated means when your educated along with knowing your cultural values. Does education system today just include education or education with cultural values. Now-a-days cultural values have almost ended. What do we want our kids to be like - just educated or also have cultural values along with it.
Few years back, a kid had asked his teacher why is 2+2 = 4 only? The teacher replied that you have asked a very good question and said, " When you grow up like me, you will have to do business with money. You will have to give money and take money also. Hence we are teaching you from now that 2+2 =4, so that when you grow up you don't give 5 instead of 4 or take 3 instead of 4!
Today in teaching where is cultural values taught? :Like a train needs its engine, children need cultural values with education. There was a time when a mother used to feed her kid, but now kids have either no time due to the school timings or they like to sit in front of the TV and have food.
We find happiness in wealth, success, beauty and power but they are never in our hands. We can get it whenever we want. But the real happiness is in culture, shame, being happy from within. We definitely have to do an analysis on this.
2. Well-Reported:
In life good and bad both occur. We are the medium who reports the situation. Do we report always good or always bad? What is our capability? Relations have ended between father and son, husband and wife due to wrong reports from others. Good reports bring relations together. If we have good sense, then we will be well reported. A beggar stands near a temple to beg and not near a theater, thinking that he will get some money from the person who goes to the temple. This is the good will of the temple.
3. Well - Supported:
Are we ready to support the right and good always. By being always with the good and the right, we can become well supported. In the newspaper, in one corner if there is story that says how a man cheated one crore and another story about a man who donated one crore, which story would we like to read first? Which story are we happy to read? Let us try and always support the good!
4. Well-Devoted:
The biggest result of education is being well devoted - devoted towards our parents, teachers, our guru and God. When we accept our weakness, we become well devoted. Arjun was well devoted to Shree Krishna as he new his weakness. Are we devoted?
Gandhiji had written that he was devoted to his mother. Before going to South Africa he seeked permission from his mother if he can go. His mother replied that there was no problem in going but to keep three things in mind: No wine, No Non-veg, No doing wrong. Gandhiji had written in his biography that due to his mother he was able to be away from these three things.
Why don't Parents teach their students these cultures? It is the duty of the parents to teach their kids and it is duty of the children to implement the same. Parents have to blame themselves before they blame their children.
So let us improve our education system so children are just not educated in life but well educated and understand how to live life!
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life!"
Once Ravi Shankar Maharaj went to a School to give speech. Everyone was asking him for an autograph and a small girl has especially come to ask his autograph. He replied that I will definitely give my autograph but in return you have to do something. The little girl asked what she could do. Ravi Shankar Maharaj asked her to sacrifice tea and she agreed to it. After 10 years a letter came to Ravi Shankar Maharaj's house. It was from the same girl who had sacrificed tea. The girl wrote that with his permission she had left tea, however, now that her exams are nearing it is necessary to be awake late nights and hence required permission to drink tea again. Ravi Shankar Maharaj replied to her that she can drink tea if she wanted to stay awake for her exams. He also wrote that by doing this you might be successful in your exams but you are actually failing in the exam of life. After 5 days the girl again replied that she might fail in the exams but will not drink tea as she did not want to fail in the exam of life. After a month the girl again wrote saying that she never had tea and studied well and secured the second place in the board exams!
There are four things to be discussed in relation to Education:
1. Well Educated:
There is a difference between being educated and being Well educated. Educated means if you get good knowledge and well educated means when your educated along with knowing your cultural values. Does education system today just include education or education with cultural values. Now-a-days cultural values have almost ended. What do we want our kids to be like - just educated or also have cultural values along with it.
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child!"
Today in teaching where is cultural values taught? :Like a train needs its engine, children need cultural values with education. There was a time when a mother used to feed her kid, but now kids have either no time due to the school timings or they like to sit in front of the TV and have food.
We find happiness in wealth, success, beauty and power but they are never in our hands. We can get it whenever we want. But the real happiness is in culture, shame, being happy from within. We definitely have to do an analysis on this.
2. Well-Reported:
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| Well Reported! |
In life good and bad both occur. We are the medium who reports the situation. Do we report always good or always bad? What is our capability? Relations have ended between father and son, husband and wife due to wrong reports from others. Good reports bring relations together. If we have good sense, then we will be well reported. A beggar stands near a temple to beg and not near a theater, thinking that he will get some money from the person who goes to the temple. This is the good will of the temple.
3. Well - Supported:
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| Right or Wrong |
Are we ready to support the right and good always. By being always with the good and the right, we can become well supported. In the newspaper, in one corner if there is story that says how a man cheated one crore and another story about a man who donated one crore, which story would we like to read first? Which story are we happy to read? Let us try and always support the good!
4. Well-Devoted:
The biggest result of education is being well devoted - devoted towards our parents, teachers, our guru and God. When we accept our weakness, we become well devoted. Arjun was well devoted to Shree Krishna as he new his weakness. Are we devoted?
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| Devoted Gandhiji |
Why don't Parents teach their students these cultures? It is the duty of the parents to teach their kids and it is duty of the children to implement the same. Parents have to blame themselves before they blame their children.
"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself"
So let us improve our education system so children are just not educated in life but well educated and understand how to live life!
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