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Namah Evolution Next XVI — the Age of Truth

reason relies heavily upon sense perception money but for living life in a beautiful and
and external and observable data while a meaningful way. To have wealth without
whole range of information pertaining to the beauty and to have an external position
deeper layers of life goes unnoticed. Intuition, without any inner meaning and compass to
on the other hand, is able to scan the entire direct our life purposefully are dangerous
range in a single sweep, even if momentarily situations to be in. An adult who has gone
as a flash of lightning illumines an area. In through this process, unless he is inwardly
fact, information is valueless unless we can developed by virtue of his past evolution,
also understand the entire range of forces at will be not only useless but perhaps even
play at any given moment. harmful to himself and to the society he lives
in! And then when he ends up finding ways
The need for a new education and means to cheat the system and deceive
others we call him a criminal and bring in the
Therefore the education of a child should police to curb his evil propensities. But is it
include, on the one hand ways and means not the direct result of our emphasis, given
of developing intuition and, on the other almost exclusively on money and position
hand a practical understanding of the entire rather than on inner growth and progress!
range of forces at play, — forces physical,
psychological, occult, spiritual. This can be Life is a constant learning but to make the
done through various means but most of all most of this process we need to go through it
it comes through the practice of making the consciously. When someone makes our choices
mind quiet as also through self-study and for us then we tend to divide life artificially
becoming conscious of oneself. This means into right and wrong. This may sometimes
allowing time for reflection and introspection be a safe option but it is not necessarily the
to the growing child, helping him make his best when we consider growth and progress
choices rather than making the choices for towards an increasing awareness as the
him by virtue of authority. It also means aim and objective of our earthly existence.
learning organically through all the small That is why we see today this tendency to
and big experiences that life itself offers to us experiment and learn rather than be simply
for our growth. These experiences often go taught through a textbook. This way even
unnoticed since we still have the concept of a failure helps by making us conscious of
classroom education that is disconnected with something in our nature. Surely this is no
life. The child goes to a school where a set and easy task but there is no other that can be
prescribed course must be finished within a complete and consistent with the demands
given framework of time and with the specific of our times. It does not mean an unbridled
purpose of getting good grades. These grades freedom as some may imagine. It means
in turn are supposed to help him secure a bringing before the tribunal of reason of a
good job, which means for most parents and child all the various possibilities and forces
children, good money and position. This is at play when he is making his choices. He
inverting the very foundation of education, should not be caught completely unaware of
which should primarily be for growth and what is hidden underneath and is pushing
learning, to equip a child not just for earning for expression through his body and mind

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