'Happiness'. - Ssy.org

What is the difference between a Gurukula and a school A School is a place, which produces clerks
through government certifications. The English made sure that they destroyed the Gurukul system of
India. That is the only way they could rule the country. To do that, they removed the certification by the
Guru and gave it over to the state and so the gulamgiri, the clerical production started in India.
In the olden days every place of work was a Gurukul. People worked, studied and learnt under a Guru.
Those Gurukuls were the real universities. In turn, the Guru looked after them, lock, stock and barrel
and trained them.
Along with everything else, the Guru also provided certain value systems to their work. He taught them
how to serve the people. Everybody did work as a seva to the Guru. They did not work for profit, for
money.
There were one lakh twenty five thousand such institutions at one time in Chennai. Each one was a
beautiful Gurukul because the educational institution and production institutions were one and the
same. All the money from production went into education. Nobody looked for a job, nobody applied for
a job.
If somebody wanted some work to be done in that area, they came to a Guru and asked for help. The
Guru then sent one of his disciples to start another process over there. It was always the guru who
placed the' person wherever needed.
There is a lot of difference between working and doing seva, and learning and doing work. Everybody
was an apprentice, everybody was a Guru, and everybody was a Shishya. This is the Guru Shishya
Paramapara.
The Guru was interested in the Shishya and the Shishya was interested in the Guru. In that togetherness
was joy for all, and it was that joy and the vision of the Guru that carried everything else. Such was our
country. Now with the dismantling of the Gurukul system and the invention of the clerical system, we
have become a poor nation. We want to bring back this power again.
You can start becoming a builder of the nation, a powerful force behind the nation, by creating a
Gurukul in every place.
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