Disciples inquired Jesus; "when will the Kingdom come?"He replied; "That which you seek for has already come, but you do not recognize it". (1)
The question of disciples represents the eternal search (becoming) of humanity for an Absolute freedom. The answer carries the certitude of the one of finalized view (Guru).
What is the most grievous default or the poverty of humanity? It is our ignorance towards the here and now fullness of life only. Insensitivity towards one’s brother/sister, to the living earth, is just an extension of the insensitivity towards oneself.
Schrodinger points out the difference between the correctly philosophical and the non-philosophical (ignorant) approaches as follows;
“ The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediated forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened here yesterday; where as for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterize everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment ; indeed, one might almost say that it is the fact that anything is experienced and encountered at all”.(2)
Falling of fruit from a tree is nothing for us to wonder, but if a fallen fruit fly back to the tree, it is heavenly, ambrosial. For us, whatever we already have is taken for granted. Then we are in search….
The humanity in general, is fixated in the functional world of names and forms, in multiplicities.
While ignorance breeds delusions, true education makes us to realize that, we are already in Eden or we ourselves are Eden. One World School is for such an education. Education for the citizenship in Eden.
It's a contemplative association devoted to the study of the Science of the Absolute (Self) i.e to learn from the wisdom teachers of humanity. School is affiliated to the East-West University of Unitive Sciences (Narayana Gurukulum), Bangalore, S.India.
It offers comprehensive introduction to the science of the Absolute mainly through the texts; ‘Word of the Guru’ by Nataraja Guru, Bhagavat Gita by Guru Vysa, and One Hundred Verses of Self Instruction by Narayana Guru. It also offers the study of Geo-Politics. The syllabus includes one world economics, ethics, aesthetics etc.The literature ranges from One World Economics by Nataraja Guru, to the One Straw revolution of Fukoka and Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky.
The bi-polar relationship between the teacher and the taught is the vital part of the entire education process.
The campus of the School is the surface the Earth.
References;
1.Gospel of Thomas
2.E.Schrodinger, My view of the world, Cambridge University press.
