JEEVAN VIDYA'S GUIDANCE TO STUDENTS (A, Paraphrase)

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Jeevan Vidya’s Guidance to Students
Q. 1 What exactly is meant by education?
Please guide us on this subject.
Ans. In Man’s life, knowledge is supreme.
There is nothing as sacred, auspicious
and useful as knowledge. The effort
made by Man to acquire knowledge is
called education. Man’s education starts
in the mother’s womb and continues till
he reaches his tomb; in other words,
Man is an eternal student and must
keep studying from the cradle to the
grave. Hence, Jeevan Vidya says that,
“Education involves studying during
every moment of one’s existence’’. If
Man does not possess knowledge or
education, he is nothing better than a
two-legged animal! Unfortunately, the
number of two-legged animals among
human beings is only increasing
tremendously day by day. Many people
have started considering money to be
God and are madly running after it,
while at the same time turning their
backs on knowledge which is essential
for acquiring wisdom. The main reason
why there is so little happiness in the
world and so much sorrow is that
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people have over-emphasized the
importance of money and turned their
backs on knowledge. In short, there is
no alternative to knowledge in the world
and, therefore, Jeevan Vidya stresses
that :
‘Knowledge is weapon, protector and science,
Knowledge is strength, power and force,
Knowledge is an asset, riches and wealth,
Knowledge is God, Angel and Divinity,
So, become great by acquiring knowledge and
wisdom’.