I will not use the title Swami Vivekananda to refer to our Babu because such a title has not been given to him by himself instead it was conferred to him by a king.
However, I must not miss saying that Vivekananda means a person who finds joy in knowledge.
Therefore, I will not refer to the identity that our Babu has not given to him as he was a man in his right and valour.
Coming back to what I said earlier, people are zealously and jealously quoting and saying what our Babu said thereby rendering them, eminent copy masters.
Why are not the people arguing about their learning and view about the causes espoused by our Babu?
Because they are mere information gatherers but not people who build character and nation by analyzing and using that information.
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there undigested, all your life.
I have decided to depart from the convention of only quoting our Babu or saying what he exactly said.
I will refer to what he said but with my observation of how I consider his statements.
Our Babu extensively argued on the effects of true education and how spirituality can awaken the skeleton that every one of us has although with no effect.
Our country is having a population of 16% breathing in poverty and 23% languishing in illiteracy. Mind you, amongst the 77% of the literates, many are degreed illiterates enjoying such illiteracy on the pretext of degrees and 23% are illiterates.
Therefore, illiteracy is more of a problem than poverty as appears from the numbers.
If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them, at the plow, in the bakery, factory, elsewhere
I ask this question can we represent ourselves in any sphere of our life?
Is our education system developing in us the characteristics of representing ourselves, let alone representing the masses?
The education which does not help the common mass of people to equip themselves for the struggle for life, which does not bring out the strength of character, a spirit of philanthropy and the courage of a lion – is it worth the name?
If we are not granted a passport by the authority, can we argue as to why shall we be given the passport, or will we beg for professional help?
We are reading for feeding ourselves but not to lead ourselves.
The fundamental aspect of learning is developing the characteristics of representing oneself before anyone.
Having the right to vote and exercising it does not make you your representative.
Voicing your cause with solutions thereto before your representative is the way by which you can hold your representative accountable.
Is your education giving you intellectual courage and moral courage or is it caging the same?
Do we have the moral courage to contest an unfair status quo prevalent among us?
Do we have the intellectual courage to find out whether in a given factual existence our right is violated or not?
We consider spirituality as being religious and philosophical and therefore irrational as opposed to science.
Do not we know that natural science previously was called philosophy?
Do we not know or cannot we know that science answers to those phenomenons which are visible but what about those which are invisible but feelable?
Do not we know or cannot we know that one can trace our mind and touch our body but cannot touch our soul but can feel it?
Do not we know that science is confused about the soul but sure about the mind?
Do not we know the greatest of great scientists confessed that the most complex theories have been conceived by them when they were asleep hence when they were unconscious?
Do not we know that Robert Oppenheimer was influenced by Bhagavad Gita and read it by first learning Sanskrit?
I argue that science shows you what it can see but why are not we concerned with those things which science cannot see.
Our publically known greatest mathematician Ramanujan used to say that he conceives solutions when he is asleep as if someone is telling him the solutions. Who was that person? Was it his soul?
Philosophy deals with those issues which science cannot answer because it cannot see.
Are we been instilled with courage by educational institutions?
Are the teachers destroyers of mind?
Are teachers trying to instil knowledge or igniting the sleeping flames of acquiring knowledge?
Are the teachers trained to ignite such flames?
Why there is no deliberation as to what kind of training the teachers shall Undergo to teach in institutions?
Why there is no exam for the teachers?
Why a teacher is not subjected to termination on the evaluation of the students?
The answer to the questions is non-individualistic but collectivistic, and therefore, I am not even endeavouring to answer the question here.
The Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge, even in a boy it is so and it requires only an awakening and that much is the work of a teacher.
A dustbin, on our throwing, accumulates a pile of garbage without any protest. It does so, because it is not a living being, and therefore, does not have the discriminatory mind differentiating between fair and filthy. It appears that a mind without appreciation for its soul is a non-living mind claiming that it is synonymous to dustbin.
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