An ideal education can produce a fully developed individual whose awareness is so cultured that he spontaneously functions according to all the Laws of Nature and enjoys the support of Nature for the achievement of all his goals.

A fully educated man: The master of his own destiny
by Global Good News staff writer
18 January 2008

In this lecture given in Seelisberg, Switzerland, to a World Assembly on the Role of Education in Making the Nation Invincible, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi pointed out that only an enlightened man is a fully educated man. Even a few individuals whose consciousness is coherent and who spontaneously act in accord with Natural Law, are sufficient to make the national consciousness invincible.

This lecture is published in a four-volume set of books, Maharishi Speaks to Educators, compiled as a reference text for educators and lovers of Maharishi’s knowledge everywhere.

‘The fundamental basis of education is the state of enlightenment,’ Maharishi said, ‘in which the knower has full knowledge of himself. Without enlightenment one is absorbed only in the details of knowledge and does not experience directly that inner wakefulness or pure consciousness, which is the basis of all knowledge. One knows the object without the knower.’

Maharishi says that ‘Knowledge is structured in consciousness. Pure consciousness is the field of pure knowledge, the home of all knowledge. Knowledge will be complete only when our awareness is open to this level of pure knowledge.’

Maharishi explained that a fully educated man is an enlightened man, who not only has depth of understanding of the various academic disciplines, but he is also the master of his own destiny. He feels at home in every undertaking and every field of life.

‘Education should allow the student to grow in the ability to be at home with everything,’ Maharishi said, ‘even while he is still in the process of learning. . . . Consciousness, which is the basis of learning, can be expanded to contain the entirety of life.’

Such an ideal education will produce a fully developed man whose awareness is so cultured that he spontaneously functions according to all the Laws of Nature and enjoys the support of Nature for the achievement of all his goals. ‘Such a man can fulfil both his own interests and the interests of everyone else,’ Maharishi said.

‘Ideal education will culture individual life to create an ideal man. By creating ideal individuals we can create an ideal society, which will be self-sufficient, integrated, harmonious, progressive, and fulfilled. A coherent and integrated society is the basis of an invincible nation’. . .

Invincibility of a nation is a state of national consciousness so strong, coherent, and integrated that disruptive influences cannot penetrate it. ‘The development of invincibility in every nation is the only practical approach to world peace,’ Maharishi said.

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