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
By His Holiness Jagadguru Swami Isa
“Education for Total Consciousness” is a segment of the treatise “Human Manifesto,” a comprehensive exposition generating energy-based knowledge on all branches of learning intended to promote humanism and human awareness of being one with the Universe.
What is missing in today’s education is awareness about the real function of education. Education must enlighten the individual, for knowledge is light. People make an attempt to regenerate education within the ambit of their knowledge, while their limitations leave their mark in the reforms suggested. There have been experiments like teacher-centered education, student-centered education, etc. but imperfection and insecurity still haunt the realm of eduction. Hence, the need of the hour is genuine education that is scientific and fundamental.
Education knowledge can be divided into two. First, is external knowledge. Second, is internal knowledge, which includes the body. External knowledge is objective knowledge, and internal knowledge is subjective knowledge. In short the Universe is the expression of external and internal entities.
Education is not a mere process of accumulating information.
Food taken is digested and assimilated; similarly, information gained through education has to be absorbed to be part of one’s self. This is the enlightened state of education.
Everything present in the external Universe is present in the internal Universe also. Both of these worlds are created by atoms. An analysis of the atoms will reveal that the electron, neutron, proton, positron, etc. are bundles of energy, and energy is vibration. The vibration of each object varies according to its structure. This basic principle helps to connect the external knowledge and internal knowledge. It is high time to move into a teaching and learning methodology based on energy vibration.
The whole Universe is created out of one vibration, there is nothing that is not vibration in srushti, sthithi, and samharam (creation, protection/maintenance, and transformation/destruction). The chemical change in destruction brings about changes in shape, form, and action of objects, but the fundamental vibration remains the same. Education must turn into light that can understand vibration. Lack of light will distort vision; however, this distortion is not the defect of the basic principle, but the inadequacy of the available equipment. This practical approach to knowledge has to be incorporated into education.