#Ancient Culture( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-1.6 : Swami Krishnananda

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#OPINION : 25/12/2019 : 1999.
Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) - 6.

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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; you repel, rather. That would be an uncultured person’s attitude."

## Therefore, education need not be considered as the same as culture.##

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6.2

#But education is supposed to be a medium for making a person cultured, and if today’s educational system does not make a person cultured, so much the worse for it. #

"We have job-oriented education, technological education; we have the arts and sciences, humanities and whatnot, but they are all connected with limited areas of thought."!

"A person who is proficient in physics knows nothing of history, a well learned man of history knows nothing of chemistry, etc. They are aliens in their own psychological world."!!

##To be cultured is to be human, and to be cultured is to be able to rise above the purely subjective way of thinking or the purely externalised way of thinking.##

### "You should not condition your thought either to your own personality or to some group of people outside – a communal way of thinking, as they call it, a fundamentalist way of thinking. All these have to be transcended."
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6.3

# "A cultured person is not an ordinary individual; a kind of super-individual is that person, super-individual because of the fact that this person has risen above the ordinary limitations of human individuality." !

#What are the limitations of human individuality?

"Hunger, thirst, ego – physical instincts like hunger and thirst, and psychological pressures like egoism play a dominant role in our lives."!!
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6.4

You have to eat every day. A very important point it is. You have to get a good meal at least once every day. This is a very basic need, physically unavoidable, and it cannot be ignored under any circumstance. Whatever be the conditions prevailing in the world, that you require a meal every day is first and foremost, and you are always keeping an eye on it. Secondly, you require to be recognised. An unrecognised person is not a happy person. Otherwise, you will feel you are nothing.

There is what is called self-regard. You always feel that you are something, and you would not like to be treated as nothing. You are somebody, and you would not like to be told that you are nobody.

You require to be respected. That is the ego working, and this instinct is stronger than even hunger. You may starve for three days without food for some reason, but you would not like to be starved of your self-respect. Rather, you would starve for days together for the sake of gaining self-respect. If you feel that your respectability is going to be enhanced under certain conditions which require you to be without food, you may have to work very hard to see that your self-respect is taken to its pitches, socially respectable to the highest point.

If the highest self-respect can be gained by working hard, involving a little bit of starving, you would not mind it. When political electioneering takes place, for instance, people who stand for election and who wish that they be lifted up to a high position of respectability in social circles may have to run about here and there, sometimes even without being able to eat or sleep. You have seen this. Even without sleep, without eating, you can exist for some time, but without self-respect you cannot exist for even a day.

# Ego is a stronger instinct than other instincts.

#But a cultured person rises above this basic, crude, limiting condition to which he is subjected by ego and physical conditions.

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To be continued ...

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OPINION : #The whole country thinks in one way only: this is my country? 

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2. NOT, WATCH THE WHOLE DRAMA ENACTED BY OPPOSITION, MUSLIMS, CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AND CHURCH HEADS, AND THE COLONIAL MINDED WESTERN INFLUENCED FOOLISH MEDIA; THE NATION IS WITNESSING DESTRUCTION BY EVIL MINDS!, EVIL THOUGHTS!!

3. #WHAT THE PRESENT CENTER GOVERNMENT IS DOING BY WAY OF CAA  AND NRC, IS JUST A UNFINISHED TASK BY CONGRESS ( DUE TO LACK OF POLITICAL WILL )

4. BJP THE RULING PARTY DETERMINED TO TAKE THE RISK AND JUST PRONOUNCED THE THOUGHT OF ACTION;

5. NOT READY TO LISTEN AND  WITH EVIL THOUGHT CUM INTENTIONS THE WHOLE BUNCH OF RAKSHASAS DEMONSTRATING VIOLENCE, DESTRUCTION OF NATION'S PUBLIC PROPERTIES!!!

#ARE THOSE CREATURE WHO OPPOSE THIS HOLY NATION PM, CULTURED, HAVE BHARATIYA  SAMSKARAM? ##NO 

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ANSWER :
# Ego is a stronger instinct than other instincts.!!
#But a cultured person rises above this basic, crude, limiting condition to which he is subjected by ego and physical conditions!!!

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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.

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