A healthy body is a necessary condition for intellectual or spiritual attainment. Physical fitness does not mean the proper functioning of the various organs of the body but also the development of strength, balance and a sense of beauty. Beauty is the ideal which the physical life has to realise.
The education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. He distinguishes the heart from the mind and says to instruct the mind is not to instruct the heart. He senses the danger in the use of moral text books for this purpose in schools and colleges. he feels they make the thinking of high things mechanical and artificial. for he feels he heart is not the mind and to instruct the mind does not necessarily improve the heart.
every child must be given practical opportunity as well as intellectual encouragement to develop all that is best in his nature. If a child has bad qualities bad habbit and bad samskara be it of mind or body. he should not be treated harshly or delinquent, but must be encouraged to get rid of them by practicing rajayogic method of samayama (self control) rejection and substitution.
Instead of discouraging such people they should be taught to think that these are traits of or symptoms of a curable disease which are alterable by a steady and sustained effort of the will. False hood being rejected and being replaced by truth. fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice and renunciation, malice by love. the unformed virtues must also not be treated as faults.
to be continued.
The education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. He distinguishes the heart from the mind and says to instruct the mind is not to instruct the heart. He senses the danger in the use of moral text books for this purpose in schools and colleges. he feels they make the thinking of high things mechanical and artificial. for he feels he heart is not the mind and to instruct the mind does not necessarily improve the heart.
every child must be given practical opportunity as well as intellectual encouragement to develop all that is best in his nature. If a child has bad qualities bad habbit and bad samskara be it of mind or body. he should not be treated harshly or delinquent, but must be encouraged to get rid of them by practicing rajayogic method of samayama (self control) rejection and substitution.
Instead of discouraging such people they should be taught to think that these are traits of or symptoms of a curable disease which are alterable by a steady and sustained effort of the will. False hood being rejected and being replaced by truth. fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice and renunciation, malice by love. the unformed virtues must also not be treated as faults.
to be continued.
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