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<font size="4">True Professor</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">THE Mother says a professor, a true professor, must be
truly a yogi. That is to say, a teacher, even a schoolteacher, one imparting
what is called secular education, has to be nothing less than a yogi. The
Indian term for teacher is 'guru' and 'guru' meant a teacher both spiritual and
secular. This distinction of the two words is made by the modern <span
class=GramE>spirit,</span> it did not belong to the ancient culture. The
secular knowledge was also considered a necessary part of the spiritual
knowledge, that which prepared for it and led towards it. The '<span
class=SpellE>apara</span> <span class=SpellE>vidya</span>' or the '<span
class=SpellE>vedangas</span>' were but limbs of the supreme knowledge '<span
class=SpellE>para</span> <span class=SpellE>vidya</span>' and '<span
class=SpellE>veda</span>'.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
teacher has to be a yogi does not mean that he is to be a paragon of moral
qualities, following, for example, the <span class=GramE>ten commandments</span>
scrupulously. Not to tell a lie, not to lose temper, to be patient, impartial,
to be honest and unselfish, all these more or less social qualities have their
values but something else is needed for the true teacher, something of another
category and quality. I said social <span class=GramE>qualities,</span> I might
say also mental qualities. The consciousness of the teacher has to be other
than mental, something deeper, more abiding, more constant, less relative, <span
class=GramE>something</span> absolute. Do we then prescribe the supreme
Brahma-consciousness for the teacher? Not quite. We mean the consciousness of a
soul, the living light that is within every aspiring human being. It is a glad
luminousness in the heart that can exist with or without the brilliant riches
of a cultivated brain. And one need not go so far as the <span class=SpellE>vedantic</span>
<span class=SpellE>Sachchidananda</span> consciousness.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That
is the first and primary necessity. When the teacher approaches the pupil, he
must know how to do it in and through that inner intimate consciousness. It
means a fundamental 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<font size="2">Page – 256</font></p><hr>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>attitude</span>,
a mode of being of the whole nature rather than a scientific procedure: all the
manuals of education will not be able to procure you this treasure. It is an
acquisition that develops or manifests spontaneously through an earnest desire,
that is to say, aspiration for it. It is this that establishes a strange
contact with the <span class=GramE>pupil,</span> radiates or infuses the knowledge,
even the learning that the teacher possesses, infallibly and naturally into the
mind and brain of the pupil.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Books
and <span class=SpellE>programmes</span> are of secondary importance, they are
only a scaffolding, the building within is made of a different kind of bricks.
A happy luminous consciousness within is the teacher's asset, with that he
achieves all; without it he fails always.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If the teacher is to be a yogi, the pupil
on his side must be at least an aspirant. But I <span class=GramE>suppose<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>a pupil, so long as he is a child, is
a born aspirant. For, as the Mother says, a<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span>child's consciousness retains generally something of the pure inner
consciousness for sometime at least until it is overshadowed by the development
of the body and the mind in the ordinary normal way. Something of 
<span
class=SpellE><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">this</span>, we know, has been expressed
in the famous lines of the visionary English poet:.</span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Soul that rises with us, our life's
Star,</p>

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<font size="2">Page – 257</font></p><hr>


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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span>Hath had elsewhere its setting,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And cometh from afar<span
class=GramE>..</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But trailing clouds of glory do we come<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>From God, who is our <span
class=GramE>home:</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Heaven lies about us in our infancy! </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shades of the prison-house begin to close<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:81.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>upon</span> the growing
Boy. ¹</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But if the right teacher is found, that pure
flame in the child's consciousness can be kept burning, can even be made to
burn brighter and higher. A teacher too on his side in the presence of a pure
child-flame in his pupil may profit by its warm touch; for the two by their
intimate interaction grow together towards a greater <span class=SpellE>fulfilment</span>
in both.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When we speak or think of education and
consider the <span class=SpellE>relation</span> </p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Wordsworth:
Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 257</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>of the teacher and the pupil, we generally confine ourselves to the mental
domain, that is to say, aim wholly or mainly at the intellectual acquisition
and attainment, and only sometimes as per necessity as it were we turn at most
to the moral domain, that is to say, we look for the growth of character, of
good manners and <span class=SpellE>behaviour</span> – social values as we have
said. Here we have tried to bring into the educationist's view a more
important, a much more important and interesting domain – a new dimension of
consciousness. 
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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 258<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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