Passage 6

In English

Wisdom is the spiritualization and sublimation of this knowledge. Real education should not end with the acquisition of knowledge alone, but should transform it into wisdom. True education should lead to liberation from the world of sorrow. But, modern education has, instead, a paradoxical effect on the individual. It has led to the accretion of sorrow and not its elimination. As modern education has advanced, sorrow also has increased. With the explosion of education, the totality of misery in the world has increased enormously. Modern education is thus not conducive to redemption from or worldly sorrow. The cause for this multiplication of human sorrow may be traced to man’s lack of faith in the essential unity underlying the phenomenal multiplicity. Selfishness, the source of human sorrow, is a concomitant of or egoism. is extended egoism or selfishness extended to kith and kin and to personal belongings. The combination of and results in or attachment to the evanescent objects of the world.