Another meaning of the word, which is even far deeper: “education” comes from the word educare; it means to lead you from darkness to light. A tremendously significant meaning: to lead you from darkness to light. The Upanishads say, “Lord, lead us from untruth to truth” – “asato ma sadgamaya.” “Lord, lead us from death to deathlessness”, “mrityorma amritamgamaya.” “Lord, lead us from darkness to light” – ” tamaso ma jyotirgamaya.” That is exactly the meaning of the word “education”: tamaso ma jyotirgamayma – from darkness to light.
Man lives in darkness, in unconsciousness – and man is capable of becoming full of light. The flame is there; it has to be provoked. The consciousness is there, but it has to be awakened. You have been given all, you have brought it with you; but the whole idea that you have become a man just by having a human body is wrong, and that idea has been the cause of tremendous mischief down the ages.
Man is born just as an opportunity, as an occasion. And very few people attain: a Jesus, a Buddha, a Mohammed, a Bahaudin. Very few people, few and far between, really become man – when they become full of light and there is no darkness left, when there is no unconsciousness lingering anywhere in your soul, when all is light, when you are just awareness.