True knowledge is liberating just as true education is empowering. Knowledge begins where information ends just as education begins when studies end. The purpose of information is only to trigger a process that would lead us to knowledge. The purpose of studies is to equip us so that we are empowered in life. It is neither degree nor learning of books that is the hallmark of knowledge and education but the capacity to learn and know from the most commonplace everyday events and contacts of life.
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‘Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation. Thus we must shelter the eternal youth required for a speedy advance, in order not to become laggards on the way.’ The Mother
I had been afraid of meeting her. It had taken me six long weeks to get to this point because I was afraid of her. In some of her photographs we see how formidable she can be.