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Why does mainstream education neglect wisdom studies? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT- Kanpur (2020)
Bharat
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Vedanta
Upanishads
Swami Vivekananda
J. Krishnamurti
Education System
Body Identification
Intellect
Wisdom
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses why wisdom teachings from figures like Shri Jiddu Krishnamurti and Swami Vivekananda are often ignored in mainstream education. He explains that there are two primary reasons: an eternal evolutionary reason and a contemporary political reason. Evolutionarily, human beings are biologically programmed to prioritize animalistic needs and body-identification. Since wisdom teachings challenge the false identification with the body and the ego, they are naturally perceived as unpalatable or even hostile to the average person. The teacher is often seen as a threat to one's established world and emotional comforts, leading people to passively resist by ignoring the teachings.