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======================================================================== ======================================================================= #OPINION : 30/12/2019 : 2005. Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) - 7. ======================================================================= 1. #A human being is a person who can recognise humanity in another person also. It is not that you want everything, and others do not want anything. #The meal that you require and the self-respect that you are asking for are also craved by other people. #A human being is an unselfish individual in the sense that he or she is capable of recognising the same human characteristics in other people also. #You love others as you love yourself, and you would be able to treat others in the same way as you would like to treat yourself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. #The bas...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== #OPINION : 25/12/2019 : 1999. Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) - 6. ======================================================================== 6.1 #Therefore, to be a cultured person is not an easy thing. #You may study books in a school or college, you may be educated, but you need not be cultured. #Education is not the same as culture. ## "Education gives you information about things, but culture refines your personality." ### That is the difference. ##You may have a degree, but you may not be a refined person. ## "You may have a degree in physics or chemistry or history, you may be well informed as to what history is, physics is, chemistry is. But if you do not know anything about yourself, you are not a refined person, a polished person, a smooth-going person. You do not attract; ...

======================================================================= ======================================================================== #OPINION : 22/12/2019 : 1996. Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) - 5. ======================================================================== 5.1 Philosophical thoughts, religious ideals or a spiritual encounter with life is connected with looking above. This ‘above’ is not actually looking to the skies. It is a logical aboveness. It is a circumstance which pulls you and attracts your attention. #The words ‘within’, ‘without’, and ‘above’ that I used should not be taken literally as geographical locations. #It is not that something is here and something is there and something else is somewhere else. #The terms have to be taken and understood in their proper spirit, and not merely in their letter. #The withinness is a conditioned limitation of the psyche, and the wi...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== #OPINION : 19/12/2019 : 1993. Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) - 4. ======================================================================== ======================================================================== In youth, when we are little boys and girls, budding adolescents, we are not quite acquainted either with the components of our inner psychological world or with the world outside. Even our own ways of thinking are new to us. Young boys and girls are not good psychologists. They are mostly carried away by instincts, emotions, and a kind of enthusiasm which spurts up not by the application of reason but by a combination of instinct and emotion. That is why young people are difficult to control. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== ======================================================================= #OPINION : 17/12/2019 : 1991. Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) -3. ======================================================================= I mentioned that culture is basically an outlook of life. What do you think about life? You would have noticed that generally when you think, you think in three ways. First of all, you think your own self. You look within and think about yourself. Every day you think about yourself for some reason or the other, because you are very important to yourself. You cannot ignore your existence. Right from morning onwards you think of yourself. That is the first thought. Then you think of other people. You look within at your own self, and you look without at the world outside. This without includes not only the world of nature, but also the world of people. Subjectively you think ...

======================================================================= ====================================================================== #OPINION : 14/12/2019 : 1988. Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) -2. ===================================================================== Something is happening in the world outside, in nature. Something is happening among people outwardly. There is a large country; there is a large world. There are people. Something is happening to them or they are doing something, and you react in a particular manner to these events taking place in society outside or to the world in general. How do you react? That reaction is the product of your culture. You will react in a particular manner in respect of natural history, and also social history. This is a very subtle point because though individual reactions in respect of particular events may vary from moment to moment, from person to person, general reactions are common,...