The teacher's task

Abstract

Man's feelings and activities move along three courses: the emotional, the actional and the rational, otherwise denoted as bhakthi, karma and jnaana paths. The first type does everything in a dedicatory spirit of worship, which promote purity and goodness. The second type does actions which are service-oriented, either towards the individual, or the society or the nation. They derive joy through such activity and realise their life-goals therefrom. They feel that activity is the purpose of living, its justification, its goal. The third type is moved by the spirit of inquiry into the basic principles governing life and nature, or as Vedhaantha states, into the thatthwa. Thatthwa is a word of two syllables---thath and thwa. Thathwa means the highest and the fullest knowledge.