Dec. 19, 2002
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Santa Claus is real
to children as they get their presents from him during Christmas.
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They outgrow Santa
Claus when they know it is the parents who give the Christmas presents.
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Santa Claus is a reality to the child's imagination.
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The uneducated vital
man in prosperous nations considers social benefits as Christmas presents and
Society his Santa Claus.
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The educated
non-mental vital man, not knowing the origin of genius or luck or even science,
finds them miraculous.
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Miracle is the higher
plane working in lower planes.
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Prof. Hardy's sense
of wonder at Ramanujam's six theorems on the spot arose because he was unaware
of the workings of Genius.
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The world is educated
enough and informed enough to overcome the various superstitions of Science
fostered assiduously by the elite of the world.
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The mentally awakened
child's performance is a miracle to the highly educated man, as he is
uninformed of the potentials of the mind.
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Glenn Doman's
discovery of the activated muscles awakening mental faculties still remains in
the domain of the miraculous for the world.
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That is an asset to bring the tension of excess
mental energy in balance by the wider potentials absorbing them.
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Body is the
foundation and pedestal for the higher development of mental faculties.
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There is one more
important part of our being which energises. It is the vital. What Doman has
done for the body, we must do for the vital.
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All non-physical,
non-mental characteristics are vital, as attention.
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Attention is the
physical version -- or vital version -- of affection that is psychic. Attention in education pays enormous
dividends. We have to work out the physiological details of what faculties
of mind are awakened in which measure by what type of attention. It will be a
vaster domain than what Glenn discovered.
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Body, Vital, Mind and
Spirit are the four parts of our being. Beyond the Spirit lie Supermind and The
Mother.
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Each of these planes
divides into Consciousness and Substance, which become twelve parts of six
planes.
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The consciousness and
substance have their surface as well as depths making the twelve into 24 parts.
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When we stop our
process of dividing here, we have 24 parts acting on each other resulting in 24
to the power of 24, or in permutations and combination an infinite number of
possibilities.
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Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine as well as Synthesis
of Yoga are compendiums of the theory and practice of these interplays for
the purposes of yoga.
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Education is the yoga
of the society.
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Those who are capable
of this knowledge in this amplitude and complexity must use the classroom not
as a work spot, but as a laboratory.
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To uncover the ways
of the growth of human consciousness in the process of acquiring knowledge and
capacity, the twin aspects of Personality, is a rewarding work of a lifetime
for about a few hundred researchers in education and yoga.
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To organise that
project, one needs to know The Life Divine in greater thoroughness and
needs to practise it in the life of a student.
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The one great student
available is oneself.
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Until we become
conscious of ourselves, we can do so in the students.
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A higher compromise
is one's own child.
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No more Santa Claus of morality, ethics, service,
worship, YOGA, or superstitions of scientific varieties.