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Education is perhaps the most important domain related to human progress. Except, here we do not mean the kind of syllabus oriented teaching imparted solely in school or college, but rather a form of constant learning that takes place through the life of an individual. This kind of education is integral and complete, leaving no area ignored within the human being. Its objective is to forever widen itself, and by developing the right consciousness, be able to rise from truth to higher truth.

Each one has to actively work towards this, framing one's own agenda, aspiring for one's own goal. It isn't a discipline meant only for the chosen few but, in fact, if practiced consciously can transform the very nature of every being. At the end, it all boils down to something extremely basic but easily forgotten… in the words of The Mother, " Of one thing you can be sure - your future is in your hands. You will become the man you want to be and the higher your ideal and your aspiration, the higher will be your realization, but you must keep a firm resolution and never forget your true aim in life."

In our section called Integral Education, we will put forth concrete ideas of how such a thorough form of learning can be both inculcated in oneself as well as imparted to another.

Special Words for Students

You who are young, are the hope of the country. Prepare yourselves to be worthy of this expectation.

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Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.

A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken towards perfection.

Consecrate your life to the realisation of something higher and broader than yourself and you will never feel the weight of the passing years.

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For a happy and effective life, the essentials are sincerity, humility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for progress.

Above all, one must be convinced of a limitless possibility of progress. Progress is youth; at a hundred years of age one can be young.

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If the growth of consciousness were considered as the principal goal of life, many difficulties would find their solution.

The best way of not becoming old is to make progress the goal of our life.

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To know how to be reborn into a new life at every moment is the secret of eternal youth.

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One must learn always not only intellectually but also psychologically, one must progress in regard to character, one must cultivate the qualities and correct the defects; everything should be made an occasion to cure ourselves of ignorance and incapacity; life becomes then tremendously interesting and worth the trouble of living it.

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The child does not worry about his growth, he simply grows.

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There is a great power in the simple confidence of a child.

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When a child lives in normal conditions, it has a spontaneous confidence that all it needs will be given to it.  This confidence should persist, unshaken, throughout life; but the limited idea, ignorant and superficial, of its needs which a child has, must be replaced progressively by a wider, deeper and truer conception which culminates in the perfect conception of needs in accordance with the supreme wisdom, until we realize that the Divine alone knows what our true needs are and rely upon Him for everything.

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The most important condition is trust, a child-like trust, the candid feeling that knows that needed things will come, that there is no question about it. When the child has need of anything he is certain that it is coming. This kind of simple trust or reliance is the most important condition.

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Sweet Mother,
How can a child know without the help of his parents or teachers, what he is?
You must find it out yourself, but not with your mind.  It is only the psychic that can tell you.

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Divine Mother,
When we are children, we are told what is good and what is bad. That’s why we repeat the same all our life, “This is good! That is bad!”. How should one know, in fact, what is good and what is bad?
You can know the truth only when you are conscious of the Divine.

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