Question: How do we prepare our children to withstand the competition, the pressure, the kind of lifestyle that other children have?
Sadhguru: The pressure is only because you are putting two absolutely unique beings in comparison. Is there one more person exactly like you on this planet? No. There is only one like you. That is so for your child also. Each being is an absolutely unique being. But now you are trying to put them all into the same compartment and compare them with something that they should learn – ABC or 123 or something – and make them feel better or worse about it.
It is you who brought that competition and comparison, because for most parents it is not about education, it is about the “first rank.” All they want is that their children sit on top of every other child’s head. They are not interested in learning, their whole effort is to somehow sit on top of the pile. Everybody wants to sit on top of the pile, but everybody cannot sit on top of the pile. Only a few can. The others will naturally end up at the bottom and if our focus is just to sit on top of the pile, naturally they will get suffocated under the pile.
This orientation of education has to go. You cannot just blame the schools for this because the schools are just catering to your attitudes. If your attitudes change, the schools will change. They want to run the business the way it works. If all you want is that somehow your child should get 100%, no matter what happens to the child, schools will try to cater to it because you are paying them. They are just trying to fulfil their job. In the course of your activity, the child is unhappy and getting ruined. This is a sickness that has to go. We are just ruining a whole generation of people with the kind of schooling we are providing.
True human genius will not flower if this kind of education happens. True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. When you are trying to race with somebody, you are only thinking of going one step ahead of him.
You will not think of what your ultimate potential is. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind and your body will work best and find fullest expression, only when you are joyful, peaceful and quiet within yourself.
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