Question
: To achieve all these, boys and girls need to be educated through new
ideology. I am unable to properly understand your views on education.
Could you please explain?
Shri Shri Thakur : Primarily, an elevated intellectualism needs to be invoked into education which will ensure admiration for higher culture, admiration for heroes, which will help the students to adjust themselves to what is favourable and what is unfavourable. This is what is elevated intellectualism1.
Say, something is unjust - like violence or hatred. To be able to
explain why these things should not be carried out and to become convinced about that is what I understand as elevated intellectualism.
Question : To declare faith as blind, to disobey authority - isn't this what is known as modern intellectualism?
Shri Shri Thakur : That intellectualism is opposite to elevation - de-elevating intellectualism. It is seen that whenever a man wants to grow, he invariably requires a support (elevating faith), clasping onto which he grows upward2 - like a creeper.
Foot notes:
1 – "More important than suffrage of either sex is self-discipline, the ability to live for an ideal." – Signor Mussolini
2 –
"Surely (as for) those who believe and do good, their Lord will guide
them by their faith; there shall flow from beneath them rivers in
gardens of bliss." - Quran Ch. X
"Faith is the evidence of things not yet achieved." - The New Testament
"I
began to understand that in the replies given by faith is stored up the
deepest human wisdom, and that I had no right to deny them on the
ground of reason." - 'A Confession' by Count Leo Tolstoy
"The
moral must be the measure of health. If your eye is on the eternal,
your intellect will grow, and your opinions and actions will have a
beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.
The moment of your loss of faith, and acceptance of the lucrative
standard, will be marked in the pause, or solstice of genius, the
sequent retrogression, and the inevitable loss of attraction to other
minds. The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your
descent, though they clap you on the back, and congratulate you on your
increased common sense.....
Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct, under the guidance of a deeper instinct.
He learns to welcome misfortune, learns that adversity is the
prosperity of the great. He learns the greatness of humility. He shall
work in the dark, work against failure, pain, and ill–will. If he is
insulted, he can be insulted; all his affair is not to insult. - 'Conduct of Life' by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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