The word education fundamentally means, educating yourself fundamentally means,

to broaden your horizons.

From being in limitedness you want to enlarge yourself.

But today, the form of education that is being imparted to people,

though it is broadening your information, capabilities, the things that you know in terms of information,

in terms of perception, in terms of including life, you are becoming very,

very narrow. Please see this. There was a time, especially in this country, even today,

there are families like this. 300, 400 people live in one house, one large family.

300 to 400 people have to live in one place means it needs an enormous sense of inclusion.

Because these 400 people will do things in different ways, they have different likes and dislikes. Today they want that kind of food, but this person wants this kind of food, but they can do only one kind.

See, there's an enormous sense of inclusion, otherwise you can't live together.

That's why the ashram, if you have to live with 500 people here in the ashram, you need an enormous sense of inclusion.

Without that, you cannot live with people harmoniously.

So people used to live like this, which was a common thing, but now it's a very uncommon thing.

Still there are a few families living like that.

But slowly as education came, as we know education today, as the Western form of education came,

people are becoming more and more individualistic, exclusive, no more inclusive.

Then we dropped all those uncles and aunts and grandchildren. exclusive, no more inclusive.

Then we dropped all those uncles and aunts and grandmothers and this and that.

Then we said family means me, my wife, my children, my parents, okay.

Wife's parents, no, they must go to the son. Then we thought parents are too.

They're old and they're in the way for everything.

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