The impact
of conventional education mostly remains limited to the sphere of body
and mind, i.e. the development of physical and intellectual capacities.
Acquiring so-called conventional knowledge hasn’t proved to be of much
help in realizing individual’s even farther or deeper transformation. Had
the conventional bookish education been really capable of moulding the
core beliefs, every politician would have surely been true patriots and
every public servant would have been discharging his/her duties with
total dedication, exactly the way they were taught during their
training.
Now
the question arises as to what should be done to cultivate and uplift
the personality (i.e. the sum total of feelings, thinking, actions and
nature) of an individual in a very real sense? The only answer to this
question would be to make faith (i.e. the core inner beliefs) of an
individual evolve with help of faith (worthy beliefs having high values
and principles). Trained elephants are used to capture wild ones. A
thorn lodged under the skin after a prick can be removed with help of
another thorn! Venom can be neutralised using anti-venom which itself is
a product of venom. Iron can be cut using tools made from iron itself.
To get someone drowning out of the water, one will have to plunge into
the same water. Similarly, one will have to replenish worthy beliefs
having high values and principles (faith) to get rid of the corrupted
beliefs residing deep inside their inner core.
-Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
Translated from - Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya’s work
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