You have been told from your birth that if you do not study, you will not succeed in life.
And that’s why, everyone has been spending their most precious time studying something without realizing their curiosity.
If you study hard & get good grades, you will have a great job that will make your life stable.
When you were 6 years old, you were so excited to learn about the world. How does exactly the world around you work? But, in search of so-called “Success”, you were forced to study in schools.
Before school, you were learning everything completely based on your curiosity.
For example, if I ask you "How did you start to speak?", You would say that you had observed your parents' actions of speaking, the folding of their lips, and based on your observation & curiosity, you tried to copy their actions. And thereby, you started to speak. But, when you were forced to study in school, your teachers taught you everything just to complete their syllabus. They had never cared how much you exactly learned?
It was not their fault, because they also came from the same system and that is why they had such a mentality!
(Fortunately, I had few teachers who really cared whether I learned something or not, and I am really proud of having those teachers in my life.)
Anyways, in school, your curiosity was killed. They told you, “Do not make mistakes”. But, the reality is that you learn from your mistakes. Life is a question paper, if you make a mistake, it will again give you the same question, and next time, you will have to solve it from the learned experience. But, our teachers had beaten us for making mistakes. When you are punished for making mistakes, your mind thinks that “making mistakes is a wrong thing”. And thereby, it always avoids taking action (because of fear of making mistakes). That kills your individuality, your own curiosity, and your own uniqueness. This way, you become a robot.
In a class of 60 students, if my abilities are compared with the rest of the students, I will always get different grades, because everyone is different.
You and I are completely different. You may love biology but I love mathematics. Now, if my biology result is compared with yours, I will always fail! Because that is not my cup of tea (in terms of my choices).
But, what if there were a system that could evaluate my skills and knowledge based on how much I have learned till today from the last 3 years? I mean, if I were compared with myself 3 years from now, I would call it that I am evaluated precisely and accurately because I am compared to myself 3 years from now. But, the education system compares students with each other.
When an individual is compared with others, it will develop jealousy in one of their minds.
Jealousy leads to selfishness, anger, non-righteousness, and all those seven enemies of human existence. That will destroy humanity over a long period. The reason for the destruction is at the roots of the education system. No educational system in the world, in the true sense, teaches the students, "What is true happiness in life and what is the main goal of one's life?"
From the age of 6, your skills were destroyed. And then, for the next 12 years, you were put through a system where you would establish a society, an institution, an ideology, a system that would always make human existence miserable.
Because here you are taught that "if you want to be happy, you have to earn money". But the reality is not like that.
In reality, getting money will feed your desires, and "desire" is a "forever-thirsty well". If you fulfill one wish, thousands more will arise. And secondly, whatever fruit comes from the fulfillment of desire, the fruit will be a mixture of happiness and sorrow.
But in our imagination or expectation, we see only happiness but do not think of sorrow. Due to this, even after the desire is fulfilled, we face suffering. Thus, the education system always puts us into the rat race.
So, what is the ultimate solution?
The only solution to this question is to know your true nature. (how?)
Look, you wake up every morning, and go to work, right?
You just collect money during your lifetime and one day you will die. And at that time you will not take even a single rupee of the accumulated wealth with you, right?
So was collecting money the main goal of this life? (Because you're not going to take it after death!)
It means you don't know your main goal. And to know your ultimate goal, you have to know who you are first, right?
You will say, I know who I am! But to be honest, you don't know!
Why?
Because, if I ask you who are you? Your answer will be "Your name" or you will point to your body and say, "This is me". But in both cases, your answer is either your "name" or "body".
Your name is given to you by your parents and your body will eventually become extinct. But the "I-ness" is neutral and stable throughout the lifetime.
You used to say "I" even when you were a child and you will say "I" even when you grow up. So, who is this "I"? And only after knowing that you will know your main goal.
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