Education is empowerment. It empowers us through knowledge, through the development of latent capacities, and through the awakening and shaping of the inner man in us. Above all it sets us free in the deepest sense of the word. Instead of trapping and imprisoning us in systems, books and heaps of information, it releases within us the ability to discern, the power to make choices, the possibility of arriving at Wisdom through all that we sense, observe, understand.
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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.