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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
There are five obstacle to true education: Arrongance, anger, intoxication (or indifference) disease and lassitude are the five obstacles. on account of which true education cannot be obtained.
The first great obtacle is arrogance. Pride goes before a fall. There is a Hindi proverb, “ust a foc far” (Ghamandi ka Sir nicha) which means than an arrogant man has to bow his head in humiliation. An arrogant student thinks that he knows more than his teacher. He questions his teacher not to quench his own intellectual thirst but to examine the level of his teacher's knowledge. His purpose to see that his teacher cannot answer his questions and to make the teacher feel inferior to him. Politeness is essential for the acquisition of knowledge. Only humble students can acquire knowledge and education. No teacher is pleased with an impolite student and no teacher would like to educate such a student except being only kind to him.
The second great obstacle that impedes education is anger. Swami Satya Bhakta says: "Anger is an in-. toxication and a kind of lunacy. An angry man cannot be aware of his duty." An angry man can never realize the importance of his duty. If arrogance is boiling water, anger is its steam. Anger is a greater vice than arrogance. Arrogance harms the self while
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