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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 2, 15th July 2018

and speech and feelings and impulses. they also need is a direction for their search,
otherwise they may end up destroying the
Therefore a minimum psychological under- past but not have the right understanding
standing of who we are and why we do what of how to construct a new future based on a
we do, in short a basic knowledge of human more complete and truer understanding of
psychology, is essential for all children. Of life. For all these godheads, including Truth
course, the means for imparting this knowledge and Freedom and Unity, also evolve as man
will differ for different age-groups. But it should evolves. We often put our conceptions into
be there as a fundamental subject of study, these emerging godheads. And therein lies
not through books and theories, but through the danger. If we slowly educate and prepare
observation, discussion and reflection. children to progressively understand what
true freedom is, what truth is, what indeed is
This should include among other things the unity and love, then they will be equipped to
motives for our actions, the ways to strengthen deal with these energies when they suddenly
our will, to develop the capacity of reason, to invade their heart space. They will be strong
learn to differentiate between the true emotion and capable to contain the onrush of these
of love which is strong and healthy as against new forces that have entered the world arena
sentimentality which opens the doors to all and are awakening human beings to their
kinds of weaknesses and errors and even power-play. Instead we are busy teaching
aberrant behaviour. It also means teaching them how to memorise lessons and take the
and training the children from a very young tests and get degrees and earn money!
age to control and master their impulses.
This is necessary even to truly practise reason Information explosion and the Age of Truth
and lead a reasonable life. Otherwise our
faculty of reason is often used to justify our Among these forces the most important
weaknesses and other harmful tendencies. power that is working today is Truth. We can
We are not going here into the details for almost say that this is an age of Truth and
actually putting it into practice (this can be nothing can remain hidden for long or kept
taken up later) but the principle and the into cold wraps sealed from public eye. It is
fundamentals should be clear. Instead of not only a question of the people around you,
doing this, the main faculties we focus on are our own internal mirrors have become active
primarily memory and as in some New Age compelling human beings to be mentally
schools, the sensory apparatus. A lot needs to honest and accept and acknowledge their
be done for the children embodying the new thoughts and feelings. All this has created
ideas of Truth and Freedom and Unity. If not a momentary chaos, momentary when we
well equipped, they may be misled under the look at things through large spaces of Time.
growing stress of these very godheads by
distorting and disfiguring them and deviating Mankind is becoming conscious of a vast and
them from their true purposes. The impulse complex subjective self within and behind
for Truth will lead them to challenge each its neat outer existence. That is why the old
and every known conception so far and social formulas that tied life into well-groomed
it is natural that it should be so. But what patterns of behaviour are soon going to give

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