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'How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they too are entering their corn in competition each year?' the reporter asked.

'Why sir,' said the farmer, 'didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn too!'

The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn couldn't get better or improve unless his neighbor's corn also improved.

The farmer had learnt the secret to harmonious life.

If we choose to be at harmony, we must help our neighbors and colleagues to be at peace.

If we choose to live well, then we must help others live well too.

If we choose to be happy, we must help others find happiness.

We must work with others because we are all connected with each other, no matter how remote it may seem. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.

Only when we experience the collective consciousness can we realize and experience the meaning of the word eternal bliss, nithya ānanda.

GURUKUL EDUCATION – FOUNDATION FOR NURTURING COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

The problem is that from childhood, we are trained to be separate from others. In schools, we are taught to be 'somebody different', prove that we are 'somebody'. As adults, we are taught to compete with others.

We have to understand one thing: those who have created the present system of education, are not enlightened. The system of education designed and developed by the ancient sages in the East - the gurukul structure is almost completely out of practice. It is almost dead today. It is an ancient Hindu residential education system whereby the students study with and imbibe the energy and teachings of enlightened masters. Let me highlight