The Importance of Education

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The Importance of Education

I think a question looking into what our social responsibility is, that we have education and then we have yoga. I believe that it should come together, that in while we’re teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the importance of teaching children the mind, the body, and the spirit at the same time. One is the logical mind, one is the spiritual mind. If our children are taught this when they first start school, think of what society can potentially be.

Definitely that needs to happen. Right now in India … in Southern India, we are teaching yoga in a lot of government schools. Rural children. In schools of course, it’s always there. Apart from that, we have started another school called Isha Samskriti. It’s something you must see. Today we have about a hundred and seventy two children. We have limited it that because of lack of infrastructure we’re still yet to build.

Right. Where is this school?

This is in South India. We are in the mountains in the rainforest. These children, they come in at the age of six and they leave at eighteen. There is no formal education here. We teach yoga, classical music, classical dance, Sanskrit language and English language, and the mother of all martial arts, which is known as kalaripayattu. It’s a very different kind of martial arts. This is the basis of martial arts.

It’s from here that the Buddhist monks learned and it spread across and took on various forms. They became more a kind of fighting things after they went out of the country and evolved into all kinds of things, but this is such a process. It is a fighting skill, but it’s not about fighting, it’s about mastering yourself more than anything. The classical music and classical dance is structured in such a way that it’s not just entertainment.

It is a way of evolving yourself. It’s a way of building yourself up. This school is called Isha Samskriti. Samskriti means “to do everything right”. Doing it right means not the way you think it up. If you do something right, it must be perfectly aligned with the basis of your who you are, the very source of creation within you. You must be aligned with that. Samskriti does not come under a normal education system.

We don’t have any science, math, anything, we teach them as workshops just as general knowledge. How does a motorcycle work? How does a bicycle work? How does an umbrella open? How to handle your account in a bank. This kind of workshops. They don’t have any regular normal education. These six subjects keep them on.

You won’t believe they have had no training at all about these things, but the sense of the education is to build the human body and brain to its fullest capacity without a purpose, not giving it an orientation. See, right now you go into a school today, “I want to become an engineer. I want to become a doctor.” Why? Because they’ve already decided if you become this, I will make so much money.

Right, exactly.

The whole work is to develop the human brain and the body to its fullest. After that, a human being will find something. If these two things don’t develop, what are you going to do?

I couldn’t agree with you more.

Your life here need not be damaging for every other life. You can live in such a way that you are a contribution. You are not a bloody ripoff on the planet. We talk about saving ecology, this, that, all this not necessary. If human beings are in tune with the source of their creation, they will nurture the planet without even thinking about it and without making big fuss about it.