In honor and celebration of HH Swami Isa’s birthday on November 5th, Masters of Health Magazine
is providing sections of his recent book:
Education For Total Consciousness: Universal Scheme of Learning
Part 2
By His Holiness Jagadguru Swami Isa
Education and Its Goal
Education is for the peace and happiness of the individual and society.
Education should aim at identifying and solving the problems responsible for the loss of peace and happiness.
•Education identifies the ignorance about oneself and the world.
•Ignorance is sorrow. Real education can get rid of sorrow.
•“What are the factors that exist within me and the Universe?” What are the functions they carry out? How to make them complementary for my wellbeing?” Real education provides an answer to all these questions.
•Real education consists in the practical application of knowledge that enables the individual to keep in balance the external knowledge and the external knowledge.
•Real education is the process that bestows-through logical and scientific experiments-the capacity to observe relative truths in the right perspective and experience them in a relative manner.
•Experiences vary according to the variation in equipment. This basic truth has to be realized in order to attain real education.
•To the individual, the body is the equipment: without the equipment there is no experience.
•Any change in the equipment affects the experience (vision).
•Limitation of the equipment cause ignorance about internal and external factors. When these are identified and harmoniously interconnected, the course of life takes a calm tenor and the person attains peace and joy.
•The world is made up of individuals. When individuals attain peace and happiness, the world also becomes happy and peaceful.
•Universal humanism is the awareness that the components in the individual and the Universe are not different, but the same. This knowledge makes the individual realize that the harm he or she does to another person will cause sorrow to him or her (the doer). This will ultimately lead to universal peace and happiness.
•World peace is not something that exists outside. The stream of universal peace and joy occurs when the individual is able to remove the iniquities in him or herself and be in tune with the universal flow of thought.
•In short, real education is the light of knowledge that gains peace and happiness for the world and the individual.