This presents to us the possibility of bringing fulfillment to our quest for knowledge.
Our quest for knowledge can be satisfied by developing the mind developing the container
of knowledge.
We are reading this and this and this and reading so much as we go on to
the higher education, the subjects become less and less and less and eventually only one subject.
Because the container of knowledge is not big enough to contain all the fields of knowledge.
That is why especialities are special.
Either history, geography, this and this, specialized education.
This only means the container of knowledge can contain only so much and no more.
The present education is like bringing information from here, there, there, there, and gathering
information. If one remembers then fine, if one doesn't then the education is not complete.
What is necessary is, it's like we are given a knife to cut the vegetables and we keep on
cutting the vegetables and then we cut the vegetables in triangles and quadrants and different designs.
But what about sharpening the knife?
If you don't take the time to sharpen the knife, all of the knowledge to cut it in different
pieces like that and like that and like that it would just be a bore and a burden.
If the knife doesn't cut then what to do?
If the mind doesn't work, then what to do?
So with meditation we sharpen the mind.
Sharpening the mind can expand the mind and clear the mind.
With a clear mind, we steady as much as is possible.
All the branches of learning in the relative field is highly essential.
But, the container of knowledge should also be enlarged.
The mind should also be sharpened. The mind should also be developed.
And the man should not remain using only a small portion of the mind.
No.
This is something which has been missing and it is now open to all the fields of education.
To incorporate this Transcendental Meditation in their daily routine.
It is very heartening for me that in the last two years Transcendental Meditation has been
adopted by the students of different universitites in the world.
It is spreading in the lines of the youth so fast.
It's a matter of very great pride and joy
to see that the youth of the world on whose shoulders lie the responsibility
of the world are really sensible.
People ask me, "Why the youth have taken to be so much?"
I said, "Because they are the youth of the ject age."
The youth of the ject age grow faster than the youth of the bicycle age or motor age.
(Laughter)
The youth of the ject age have achieved something good?
Fine go ahead, adopt it.
One step ahead they have gone.
The aspiration of the modern mind is so laudable.
We want to accomplish this and this and this.
We want to live on the moon and we want to live on the earth.
Aspirations are great.
And when the aspirations are great we must start from the improved level of energy and intelligence.
If we don't increase our level of energy and intelligence, and remaining on the same level
of energy and intelligence, we can only make ourselves miserable.
A wave on the ocean wants to rise high and clash against the hill to clear the way for all times.
But then the aspiration to rise high is very laudable and very praiseworthy.
But, only the activity of rising high will not do.
The activity of rising high has to be suppleme nted by the horizontal activity of amassing more
water at the base.
And then the integrity of the wave will be maintained, the wave will be integrated.
And then, the whole ocean could rise up in one wave.
And that's the formula for rising up high in activity.
That the increasing activity of accomplishment must be supplemented by increased energy and
intelligence by bringing the mind back to the source and incorporating it with that energy and intelligence.