Manifesting Divinity
Week 1
Question:
If children are the future, what should they be taught in school?
Reflection:
“We are all aliens here. No territory belongs permanently to any country. The hand of time eventually erases all nations. Their boundaries don’t last, because they represent divisions that have been carved out by force. I believe a time will come when in greater understanding we shall have no boundaries anymore. We shall call the earth our country; and we shall, by process of justice and international assembly, distribute unselfishly the goods of the world according to the needs of the people. But equality cannot be established by force; it must come from the heart. The greatest blessing would be to develop international understanding by which we may realize this truth.
These ideals should be taught in all the schools. Just as it would be a sin to teach everyone to ‘love your family; it doesn’t matter what happens to your country,’ so it is a sin to teach love of country that militates against your greater world family. When in every school love of country is over-emphasized, it sows the seeds of misunderstanding and even hatred toward other nations. How dare we spoil children by teaching them the kind of patriotism in which there are seeds of hatred! Unless you love your country, you cannot love the world; but children should be taught also to love other countries as they love their own. That is the principle of God.” ~ Shri Yogananda

