Alternate Musings is an open platform for individuals- specifically young professionals and senior students - to share their journeys.
Alternate Musings is a work of Advait Life-Education .
Advait Life-Education
Advait is a vision towards an evolved, integral and sublime human being through meaningful and value-based life-education. Advait seeks to promote creativity, wisdom and integrity among professionals and students by addressing the way they are trained or taught. To this effect, Advait harnesses the power of literature, stories and other works of natural arts.
While the prevalent education systems of today are well-designed to offer knowledge and skill-based training, they lack in addressing the individual's need for wholesome development and oneness with the world. It is the individual's need to be better connected to herself; to understand the totality of the cosmos around her; to see events and relationships in perspective; and to grow up as a creative, confident and complete individual.
Education
Education is an exploration of the external world and the Self. It is a process of elevation of consciousness that mutates a biological-intellectual being into a realised Self. Education encompasses learning specific skills, but also something less tangible but far more profound: the invocation of self-awareness, wisdom, a holistic perspective. While the prevalent education systems of today are well-designed to offer knowledge-based training, they lack in addressing the individual’s need for wholesome development and oneness with the world. This unaddressed need can be seen as a spiritual, mystic or simply as an essentially human need. It is the individual’s need to be better connected to herself, to understand the totality of the cosmos around and within her, to see events and relations in perspective; and to grow as a complete and conflict-free individual.
The life that we are leading is a perception created in our minds by the society. We are made to feel that this is what we are, what we are capable of and our limits are defined; limits created within the walls of rules and obligations made by the society.
A flower blooms to its utmost grace and beauty given proper atmosphere, undeterred and untouched. But when kept in a room, away from direct sunlight or air it will never know how it feels to bloom to glory. It will know only its capabilities defined by the provision within the room. A child born into the society is brought up just like that. Its limits get defined. Truth in the process gets hidden.
A person always drinking dirty water will be made to believe that that’s how water actually tastes. And if never given an opportunity he will never know what pure water tastes like. But if ever given a chance to have clean, fresh water, at first he will not understand the purity for he has got accustomed to the dirtiness in water. For him the cleanliness would feel wrong. But overtime given an environment where he just gets the clean water, where he actually understands the difference between clean and dirty, he will look at the same water with a fresh perspective, an outlook defined by his own views and experience, untouched by society. And once he relished the taste of pure and clean, he will never be able to tolerate, bear or understand the dirty. He will be renewed and his life will metamorphosize.
Society starts creating shackles to hold us back, even before our birth. We are conceived to be a part of a predefined world. Only when we step out of these barriers can we look at what is actually happening and what truly needs to happen. Only then can we realize our own selves, our own soul, and find Truth!!
