Today, anyone can go to a school or an institute, where a set of subjects are taught by experts who follow a fixed timetable, an approved curriculum, a standardised method of teaching and evaluation. That was not the case before.
In the old Indian model, your caste determined what you could study. If you belonged to a Brahmin community, you could learn priestly rituals. The potter's son would learn pottery by working in the father's workshop. Knowledge existed within the family, within the community, that had to be transmitted only within the group, not to outsiders. This is how tribal knowledge is transmitted to the tribe, via parents and elders, through ceremonies, stories, and apprenticeship.
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Pay the Price for Peace
Attachment or freedom? The choice is yours
Floating Through Life
When the going gets tough, the tough surrender
Sublimate your Emotions
Remember that emotion is ego in motion
A Lesson from Ravana
Reading between the lines
The Strokes of Daily Effort
What makes a good person great?
From Science to Pseudo-science - Part II
Where there is light there will also be darkness
The Trap of Reaction
Think, understand and only then act
Simple Is Best
We dismiss things as too ordinary and it is our loss
The Importance Of The 'Emergency Kit'
How to overcome difficult times by oneself
हृदय शुद्ध तो परेशानियाँ गौण
जिस मनुष्य का हृदय मलिन होगा उसमें ज्ञानाग्नि जलाने की शक्ति उतनी ही क्षीण होगी, जिसका हृदय शुद्ध होगा वह पल भर में ही आत्म-ज्ञान प्राप्त कर सकता है । यह आत्मज्ञान का मार्ग बहुत ही साहस का मार्ग है।