What kind of education will help one know herself? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)

Question: Our education system is not that sufficient in…. this is my question, what kind of education should be added in our education system that we know ourselves?

Acharya Prashant: Wonderful. What’s your name?

L: Gaurav

AP: Now, Gaurav wants to take it a step ahead. He is saying, “If that is not sufficient, if the existing education system is not sufficient then what else can be done?”

Gaurav, we are talking of self-education, the need to first and foremost, know the knower. We are saying that before you say that the pendulum corresponds to 2Л√L/G, you must ask who is watching the pendulum. The fellow watching the pendulum is as important as a pendulum, if not more. Right? So, we want to know ourselves, how do we proceed?

What is this thing called ourselves and how do we know it? It’s very simple. The rest are objects that we look at and hence they are at a distance from us. But when you are saying, “We want to know ‘ourselves,” it’s the easiest because we are always available to ourselves. We are subject of our own object.

Can we watch how we spend 24 hours of the day?