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Quest for Truth
True education is that which helps us to know the atman, our true self. God and Truth. To acquire this knowledge, some persons may feel the need for a study of literature, some for a study of physical sciences and some others for art. But every ranch of knowledge should have as its goal, knowledge of the self. That is so in the Ashram. We carry on numerous activities with that aim in view. All of them are, in my sense of the term, true education. Those activities can also be carried on without any reference to the goal of knowledge of the self.
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It's True Way
...We are living in the midst of death, tying to grope our way to Truth Perhaps it is as well that we are beset with danger at every point in our life for, inspite of our knowledge of the danger and of our precarious existence our indifference to the source of all life is excelled only by our ama...
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...My intellect rebels against the destruction of any life in any shape whatsoever. But my heart is not strong enough befriend these creatures. which, experience has shown, are destructive. The language of convincing confidence, which comes from actual experience, fails me, and it will continue t...
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When they are so carried on, they may serve as a means of livelihood or of something else, but they are not education. In an activity carried on as education, a proper understanding of its meaning, devotion to duty and the spirit of service are necessary. The first necessarily brings about develo...
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