IDEOLOGY

The true purpose of education is, surely, to develop mental faculties and unfold the inherent and latent qualities in man.

At present education, all over the world is concentrated upon the purveying of information. A mass of knowledge is communicated to all students
and all those whose minds are able to grasp and understand the bulk of it pass the examination and proceed to higher classes. Those whose capacity to understand is smaller are, generally speaking, simply obliged to remain in the same class where they will have the same lesson repeated. Even after many repetitions they still fail to absorb the teaching and it is then felt that all that is possible has been done to help them. It has not because no amount of repetition of information will turn a dullard into a brilliant scholar.

A process of mind development, such as this system of meditation, will do for the dull student what repetitious teaching can never do it will develop the latent powers of the mind naturally to the point where information can assimilated through understanding.

The meditation could be of the utmost value to all grown-up students because it would increase a thousand fold the depth to which their grasp of any teaching would reach.

By unfolding the latent power of discrimination and understanding, meditation makes it at last possible for a man to satisfy his thirst of knowledge. Education as it is at present provided does not satisfy but increases the thirst of knowledge by giving fact and arousing the curiosity of the mind but not satisfying it. The more a man reads about a subject the greater the field of the unknown seems to become.

This situation has been brought about by centuries of man’s swimming upon the surface of mind, where the scenery is immensely varied but confined to entirely manifest creation. The way in which all knowledge can be related and brought to the essential state of wisdom is through access to cosmic consciousness. There is no other way.

If the world is to go wiser and better, and if the family of nation is to live in peace, prosperity and harmony, then not only the leaders, teachers and scholars but each and every citizen must learn to explore and discover for himself the wonders of the inner light. If meditation were to be introduced in to the educational system of the world then it would be possible, without exaggeration, for a new humanity to be born. For the fulfillment reached through meditation is the fulfillment of all learning, of all science, of all philosophy, all religion and all truth.