Where are we heading?
We may increase the knowledge, but I would like to ask-Is happiness increasing? We can see schools and universities multiplying but are happy homes multiplying? Today, the input from the knowledge has taught us to be selfish, speculative and manipulative, more on “my” things are better than yours concept.
Therefore, we cannot see the connection between the “the things as it appears” and “the things in itself” because we can only understand the things as it appears to our sense and understandings. Allen Bradley writes in Future Education: The major portion of human family can see no further than the next meal, the next entertainment thrill, or new acquisitions a new car, flat, TV or the next holiday.
True education should bring the realization that these are a means, not an end. With the help of our sense we can perceive and through our understanding we can conceive. Hegel says, we may indeed arrive at knowledge of the thing in itself through speculative reasoning. Bradley claimed that we cannot come into contact with the thing in itself by reasoning alone, but we can acquire knowledge of it through immediate perception and feeling, by which the thing in itself will appear before us. Reasoning alone is not enough.
These philosophers have tried to approach the ultimate reality with their intellectual arrogance. Philosophy - Philo-sofia - is love of knowledge. Empirical knowledge is acquired by the sense organs, mind and intelligence.
The Gita says mind and intelligence belong to the external potency of the Supreme. That which is transcendental cannot be comprehended by gross or subtle elements. But we are always trying to determine the ultimate reality through empirical processes.
The existence of absolute truth is always existing we cannot approach it but we have to follow the path of Nature of trace it. When one is enlightened by the knowledge that destroys ignorance, all things are revealed in their absolute quality. The sun rises and lights up everything.
As the sun is self-luminous, your attempt to experience it at night will not work because your nature is intrinsically different from the suns. A nature of fire is to burn, nature of water is to cool, nature of Nature itself is to preserve. One has to wait for the rays of the sun to appear before you can see it. Likewise, the Supreme Being is self-effulgent, self-luminous, and by the grace of Nature; alone will we be able to see it.
A study of successful people shows that, self-confidence is the most important factor in life. It can be easily understood by the chair model. Imagine a chair with four legs. If one of its four legs is weak, the chair as a whole will be weak.
The four legs represent self-confidence, which is generated by the following: Good feelings and good social behavior, taking responsibility with being serious, learning and sharing knowledge together with being accountable and developing skills continuously.
Therefore, we cannot see the connection between the “the things as it appears” and “the things in itself” because we can only understand the things as it appears to our sense and understandings. Allen Bradley writes in Future Education: The major portion of human family can see no further than the next meal, the next entertainment thrill, or new acquisitions a new car, flat, TV or the next holiday.
True education should bring the realization that these are a means, not an end. With the help of our sense we can perceive and through our understanding we can conceive. Hegel says, we may indeed arrive at knowledge of the thing in itself through speculative reasoning. Bradley claimed that we cannot come into contact with the thing in itself by reasoning alone, but we can acquire knowledge of it through immediate perception and feeling, by which the thing in itself will appear before us. Reasoning alone is not enough.
These philosophers have tried to approach the ultimate reality with their intellectual arrogance. Philosophy - Philo-sofia - is love of knowledge. Empirical knowledge is acquired by the sense organs, mind and intelligence.
The Gita says mind and intelligence belong to the external potency of the Supreme. That which is transcendental cannot be comprehended by gross or subtle elements. But we are always trying to determine the ultimate reality through empirical processes.
The existence of absolute truth is always existing we cannot approach it but we have to follow the path of Nature of trace it. When one is enlightened by the knowledge that destroys ignorance, all things are revealed in their absolute quality. The sun rises and lights up everything.
As the sun is self-luminous, your attempt to experience it at night will not work because your nature is intrinsically different from the suns. A nature of fire is to burn, nature of water is to cool, nature of Nature itself is to preserve. One has to wait for the rays of the sun to appear before you can see it. Likewise, the Supreme Being is self-effulgent, self-luminous, and by the grace of Nature; alone will we be able to see it.
A study of successful people shows that, self-confidence is the most important factor in life. It can be easily understood by the chair model. Imagine a chair with four legs. If one of its four legs is weak, the chair as a whole will be weak.
The four legs represent self-confidence, which is generated by the following: Good feelings and good social behavior, taking responsibility with being serious, learning and sharing knowledge together with being accountable and developing skills continuously.
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