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The modern education is the study of visibles in terms of calculables. Where as knowledge is not that, but beyond that. When we opine or define that education imparted or the system of imparting education should be subjected to logics, it should be supported by logics, it should be within the ambit or purview of logical conclusions, we fail to appreciate that the education system is put into a boundary of logics. We all are taught by the parents, by the society, from the schools, colleges etc that by education, people get knowledge and become wise.

 

We fail to understand that ‘logic’ is a product or brain and ‘knowledge’ is that which is ‘divine’. Arriving at a logical inference, deciphering or interpreting an idea or a principle should be logical, is the working area of brain. Brain has limitations to provide an answer which is acceptable to all living and non-livings.

 

You cannot draw a boundary and accommodate ‘knowledge’ within that boundary. Once we draw a boundary to ‘knowledge’ by applying the ‘logical’ factor, we are limiting it within a frame work, we are limiting it within a circle, within a place, within a time, within a man, within a society. Thus the knowledge which is divine in nature, gets limited, gets compressed, to the specified sphere and this will be called ‘ignorance’. We fail to apply our mind that there is nothing like small or big knowledge, there is nothing like great knowledge, there is nothing like his knowledge, there is nothing like her knowledge, there is nothing like western knowledge, there is nothing like eastern knowledge, there is

nothing like upper knowledge, there is nothing like lower knowledge, there is nothing like today’s knowledge, there is nothing like yesterday knowledge, there is nothing like past knowledge and future knowledge etc. There is nothing like full knowledge nor empty knowledge. There is no scale of measurement with which one can measure it. While measuring a thing, the measurer (those who measures) is greater and the thing which is measured is the non-greater. For example, if I some quantity of sugar I am superior to that. Thus, to measure the knowledge, it is not possible by human beings.

 

Knowledge is knowledge and it is the ‘truth’, it is the ‘solo’, it is the distinct and it is the ‘one’, it is ‘kEvala’ . It s beyond human beings’, it is beyond any place (space), it is beyond any time (time) and it remains ‘knowledge’. When man assigns it any sort of boundary, any kind of frame, any place or time, it looses its sanctity and becomes ignorance or ajnAna. All the actions of human being are by help of his sensual organs. All senses are failing there, to see, to visualise, to understand it. And this is the reason that generation after generation, it is being sought by man. And what is to be sought in our lifetime is that

only. All other things are easily available to mankind.

 

We feel that by education, your ignorance has disappeared and you became knowledgeable or wise. Education is not knowledge but it is only information. Information is ‘goods for sale’.

 

Generally people think that a new born baby does not know anything and it cannot understand anything. Knowledge in its entirety –sUkshma rUp’ is shining in that baby. We think that knowledge is gained by studying, we think that knowledge is gained by learning, we think that knowledge is gained from speeches, we think that knowledge is gained by debates. But bhAratIya darSanAs says that knowledge in its sUkshma rUpa is in the kid and in the process of his growth, he is growing towards ajnAna or ignorance. We may ask that by education is it not that we get knowledge ? But if we think deep we will come to the conclusion that it is not. By studying more and more, man is gradually moving away from eternity. May be with this in mind, Wordsworth sing that ‘CHILD IS THE FATHER OF MAN’ .

 

We have been taught and we studied that by education we becomes knowledgeable and wise. We have been taught and we studied that by education man will be able to distinguish good and bad, man become sincere, man becomes loyal, man becomes compassionate, man becomes to a ‘do not compete’ level, man becomes happy, man becomes kind hearted, man becomes considerate, man become co-operative, man becomes caring, man becomes sympathetic, man becomes benevolent, man becomes self less, man becomes understandable and appreciate others difficulties, sorrows and pains, man becomes helping nature, man becomes non-egotic etc . This means, by education, I should attain all these qualities. I think no one will have a different opinion to this and will agree.

 

By getting the education, by achieving the education which I have now, out of the above qualities, what I got.

 

Did I become polite, did I become loyal, did I become sincere, did I become egoless, did I become competition less, did I become selfish less, did I develop love, did I start knowing the sorrows of others, difficulties of others, am I been able to understand the pains of others, am I been able to sympathise on others, on their poorness, am I been extending a helping hand to the needy,

 

Did I become a model/good brother, did I become a good sister, did I become a good mother, did I become a good husband, did I become a good wife, did I become a good citizen …. ? ?

 

Who is involved in violence? Is it educated or non-educated?

Who is doing the killings? Is it educated or non-educated?

Who is doing the thefts? Is it educated or non-educated?

Who is giving the pains to the society? Is it the educated or non-educated?

Who is adding poison in the eatables? Is it the educated or non-educated?

Who is spoiling the nature? Is it the educated or non-educated?

Who is spoiling the forests? Is it the educated or non-educated?

Who is cutting the trees and plants mercilessly? Is it the educated or non-educated?

Who is responsible for Sept 11 incident? Is it the educated or non-educated?

Who is involved in war or battles? Is it the educated or non-educated?

 

All these and a lot more ………

 

We have obtained all the latest science and technology. Whatever degrees are available in the institutions, I obtained it. All management techniques I studied (to cheat others ?). In the name of development, in the name of improvement, in the name of style, in the name of manners, in the name of upgrading, in the name of enhancement, in the name of perfection, in the name of advancement, in the name of progress, in the name of professionalism, in the name of expansion, in the name of increase, in the name of enlargement, what we have not done and still it is continuing. You and I receive, accept it wholeheartedly and applaud. I got, to add, along with my name, a two lettered degree. (BE, ME, MS, MD Dr. Er etc) I do all my acts with the ‘ego’ of that two letters and it all helped to harm this nature which I live, this dwell which I live, this inhabit which I live, this land which I live.

 

 

I have spent 1 year in LKG, 1 year in UKG, 10 years for secondary, 2 years in higher secondary, 3 years in degree, 2 years in masters, again 2 years in specialisation. By the time I am 24, 21 years of my ‘best time in life’ I spent for this education. I have been studying, learning from my child hood to end of my life. If the purpose of education is to have those good qualities and if I do not find any one of those good qualities in me, which is mentioned above, can I say that I am a knowledgeable person or a wise man. So if we say that by education, people become knowledgeable,

I feel a bit reluctance to accept.

 

I have spent a lot of money, a lot of my time, a lot of energy to gain this education. Each book I got is of thousands of rupees. But in which book, in which chapter, in which paragraph, in which line, in which word it gives me the answer or solution to my question, or to my suffering that, how to overcome that state which I face in my difficult situation. How to overcome my grief-stricken situation. How to overcome my distressed situation, in my sorrowful situation, in my painful situation and how I should be happy. If all or any of these things are not provided by education, can it be called education….? Then what is the need of such an education…? Just to make some thousands of rupees ….? To make a few thousands or few lakhs of rupees, do all these juggleries are required ….?

 

 

By the time I am 24 years old, I spent 21 years for studying – rather for getting a two letter paper -. After that I worked as a professor or lecturer in a very reputed academic institute for 15 years as head of a department. On the 16th year, the first day of opening of the school or college or whatever that be, if I have to teach the student on the first day of opening of the school, if I have to prepare a students note or reference note, where is my 21 years studying and 15 years teaching has gone..? What is the need of it.. Isn’t it better to go for washing of plates in some

houses….? If that teacher or Professor is to refer here and there, what you can expect from a student who has studied for one year from that teacher or professor.

 

Or, after 2 years in LKG,UKG, 10 years in secondary, 2 years in senior secondary, 3 years in BSc, 5 years for MBBS, 2 years for MD or MS, and again some three years for FRCS and some other specialisations, a total of 27 years education by the time I am thirty years and a 15 years work experience as Medical Director in a super speciality hospital and I approach such a Doctor, when I felt a small pain in my chest or a small difficulty while inhaling, and if that Doctor is prescribing me a tablet based on the strength of the words coming out of the mouth of a medical representative. , who has studied only upto 12th std., who has been appointed by a company just six months back, whose managing director happens to be my friend, if this is the case, why one should go for that job. Isn’t better that I do some job in my paddy field.

 

From 8th standard onwards, it was taught that we should not keep drinking water in aluminium pots, we should not put tomato and tamarind in aluminium pot. Aluminium is corrosive to water, it will react and produce aluminium oxide. This aluminium oxide if gone to your stomach, there are every chance to get ulcer and this ulcer will become cancer. All the doctors, all the engineers, all the MBA / management diplomas, all chartered accounts, all judges, advocates, all professors, all politicians, all teachers, have studied this. And as 10th or 12th standard student, I am also studying it. My simple question is, when all these people

in every strata of life, you and I, have taught this and studied this, why in each and every kitchen, pots made of aluminium, pressure cooker etc are still remaining. Why I and you are not throwing it away….?

 

I have studied a lot. I have a vast collection of books. I have read the best books of all scholars, all novelists. I am well acquainted with the latest observations of NASA. I have read books on almost all diseases, its preventions, its curatives, including cancer, TB, Hepatitis, AIDs etc and all the latest discoveries. But when I became an AIDs patient, alas !! whatever I studied, I found, becomes futile. When I became a cancer patient, alas ……….!!!

 

When I am in deep sorrow, when I am in critical stage of serious difficulties, when I am suffering from mental agony beyond my suffering level, the education with which I am pretending to be answer to everything, if it is incapable to give me a solution for my sufferings, what knowledge I got. If it is not competent enough to solve my problems, what is the necessity of still hugging it.

 

So there is, altogether, an another area which one ought to travel through, to see what is knowledge, to experience what is knowledge. By knowing that thing everything is known, and that is the knowledge.

SARVAM SIVA MAYAM

Best wishes

 

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