Since time immemorial, Teachers of great wisdom have repeated this reality again and again—The truth will set you free.
The Universe we live in works in a very orderly fashion and nothing happens by chance this is one major universal truth. As we all are an integral part of the Universe, the same truth also applies to us. Everything that relates to our lives on Earth moves in a very orderly fashion, and nothing happens by chance or mere coincidence. It doesn’t matter whether we actively participate knowingly in the creation process, as creation is happening through us even un-knowingly.
This is one of the most important realizations you can ever have that you truly are the creator of your destiny and responsible for all the events that unfold in your life.
According to ancient wisdom, out of all the places in this ever-expanding Universe, Earth is regarded as a critical learning center, where the truth of your real personality Will be gradually unveiled through proper education. The word education is derived from the Latin word educare, which means to bring out what is inside you, or to lead you from ignorance to knowledge or from darkness to light.
Education in essence means to unravel who you truly are, to get acquainted with your Soul and inborn talent to become an expert in a field that perfectly fits your personality. But the current system of education does the complete opposite.
Instead of bringing out, they keep on pouring into you the subjects that teach you how to earn in a comfortable manner, how to survive in a cutthroat business environment, and how to rise up on the corporate ladder. They try to provide you all the tools to help you succeed in the outer world, but fail to provide a single tool to help you connect to your inner world and bring out the hidden treasures lying within you.
A tiger is born as a tiger and will stay and die as a tiger, doing the same activities again and again. There is no hidden potential that he can explore to do anything else, and the same holds true for all other animals. It’s only us, humankind, who are actually born as a seed in the human body, a seed with unlimited potential. Just like there are different seeds for each plant, we too are seeds of different kinds. That is why no two people are alike, be it in the way they think, speak, act, or look. We all are individuals having a unique personality with an ever-expanding potential to grow and complete our evolution on Earth. In fact, we are missionaries with a mission to become the best that we can, and serve or entertain others with our talents, products or services.
To give you an example of how true education works, let’s have a brief look at the lives of three tennis legends Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Serena Williams had gone through the regular standardized education system, and turned into engineers or doctors, instead of tennis players? Would the world not have been deprived of their unique talent? Additionally, there is every possibility they would not have succeeded in any other profession. Why should it be left to the family to discover the unique talent of their children, when this should be an integral part of our education system? A great majority of people are an absolute misfit in the work they’re currently doing. Although, they may have acquired the requisite degree for that trade, it does not match their inborn talent. This results in their inability to excel and real success eludes them, leading to frustration, stress, and low productivity.
Albert & Comfort Ocran in their book, ‘The Five-Talent Mentality ‘highlight the reality behind our unique individual talents and abilities with this wonderful story: Many years ago, there was a man who played the piano in a bar. He was very good at what he did and many people came out daily just to hear him play. However, one night a patron told him he didn’t want to hear him just play anymore. He wanted him to also sing a song. “I don’t sing!” the pianist protested.
But the customer was persistent. He told the bartender, “I’m tired of listening to the piano. I want that guy to sing!” The pianist who had never sung in public, did so for the very first time. And nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung the way it was rendered that night by Nat King Cole, and he eventually became a music legend and a household name. He always had the talent but he was sitting on it. He may have lived the rest of his life as an anonymous pianist playing daily in an insignificant bar, but because he was “forced” to sing, he went on to become one of the best-known entertainers in America.
In the olden times the system of education was very different. Teachers were closely involved with the students as compared to now, and the focus was more on finding their in-born talents and training them appropriately. The goal was not to make them a part of the rut to do the conventional, but to bring out their inherent talent and then hone it with the right kind of education and training. In India before the British arrived, this kind of education system was in place.
The schools, known as Gurukuls, offered free education and no external authorities or politics were permitted to enter or control the school system. Access to good education was not dependent on wealth, but rather on talent. If this kind of education existed today, there would not be such a gross imbalance between the rich and poor or the successful and unsuccessful.
