8/3/2023 0 Comments Writeitnow 6![]() ![]() And it is a very grave and important matter that you should know love while you are young. Love has no sentimentality about it at all. Love is factual, it is not emotional, something to be cried over it is not sentiment. But if you begin now to have love in your heart, if you love the tree you plant, the stray animal you pat, then as you grow up you will not remain in your small room with its narrow window, but will leave it and love the whole of life. Will it not be a great tragedy if you don't discover for yourselves what it is to love? If you don't know love now, you will never know it, because as you grow older, what is called love will become something very ugly - a possession, a form of merchandise to be bought and sold. But you cannot do that unless you have love - not bodily love or divine love, but just love which is to love the birds, the trees, the flowers, your teachers, your parents, and beyond your parents, humanity. That is why it is very important to leave your little room and perceive the whole expanse of the heavens. If you don't begin to understand life while you are young, you will grow up inwardly hideous you will be dull, empty inside, though outwardly you may have money, ride in expensive cars, put on airs. Life is an extraordinary mystery - not the mystery in books, not the mystery that people talk about, but a mystery that one has to discover for oneself and that is why it is so grave a matter that you should understand the little, the narrow, the petty, and go beyond it. But to bring about the right kind of education requires a great deal of intelligence, insight, and that is why it is so important for the educator himself to be educated to understand the whole process of life and not merely to teach you according to some formula, old or new. ![]() I hope you are following all this, because education should help you to understand the whole of life and not just prepare you to get a job and carry on in the usual way with your marriage, your children, your insurance, your pujas and your little gods. In the same way we must perceive the whole process of living if we are really to understand life. Through a single spoke we hope to understand the wheel but one spoke does not make a wheel, does it? it takes many spokes, as well as a hub and a rim, to make the thing called a wheel, and we need to see the whole wheel in order to comprehend it. And it is extraordinarily difficult to go outside, to leave the room with its narrow window and see everything as it is without judging, without condemning, without saying, "This I like and that I don't like because most of us think that through the part we shall understand the whole. We live in a little room, we paint on a little canvas, thinking that we have grasped life by the hand or understood the significance of death but we have not. ![]() Without leaving the room we hope to explore the whole length and width of the river and perceive the richness of the green pastures along its banks. Most of us cling to some small part of life, and think that through that part we shall discover the whole. ![]()
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