Should we make blanket statements first and then teach nuances?
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so initially we may make blanket statements to attract people and to develop faith and later on we may give them some nuances so is it a proper way? actually education in any form is a process of selective disclosure selective disclosure that means what? when somebody is being taught something physics or something not mathematics in the first standard KG or the first or second standard we don’t talk about 3-5, we don’t talk about triple integral calculus we don’t talk about things like that so education always means speaking according to the level of the people according to the level of the people so that they can move one step ahead so that is the normal process of education, that is not deceptive now what makes something deceptive is that if we we deliberately hide the facts that people need to know so in any system of education we cannot tell everything to people at all times, if history is to be taught, now there is a board we decide that in the history text book this is going to come now in the history text book many things will be left out, but what can be done they are not, that is not, if the students are going to study history they will learn that afterwards so education means there is so much knowledge and certain things have to be learned so now it is for us to make sure that we help people grow in such a way that as they learn things which they have not learned earlier they see it as a progression not as a contradiction so if we are educating people systematically then they will move forward, they will understand it but especially if somebody asks specific questions then giving evasive answers or not giving answers or giving answers which are actually not true that can become a serious problem so is 3-5 possible no, a teacher may say that you know, yes at this level you may not understand it, but later you will understand it which is fine, so if it is not possible only at that level, that makes it absolute truth, but my teacher told me like this earlier, oh because that you could not have understood at that time and the child may not be able to digest it so now another problem in today’s world is that you know, with internet people have access to everything so when they have access to everything so it’s, even if we try to conceal certain things from people, it’s not very easy to conceal it, people can know about things very easily, so that’s why it’s good to give especially if the audience is educated the audience is thoughtful then it’s good to give a balanced understanding but it’s not wrong in principle to not tell everything right in the beginning so there has to be always a process of education and then there is disclosure according to how much people can take in fact telling, so I would say in today’s culture, where things are quite, people are quite sceptical, telling the ajamil past time literally can actually be damaging for people’s faith, for people who are from a very traditional background simple culture, they may oh the holy name is so powerful, that’s wonderful but for other people for a reasoning person if you are not able to explain with proper reasoning the past time, it can seem very very difficult to digest if you see in that book second chance also the stress is not so much on on all the promises about what the holy name can do, the stress is on the transformation of ajamil and similarly we should also chant the holy names and we should also get transformed so education has to be done in that way there has to be systematic education where there is gradation of what we teach at different times but it has to be done in such a way that the subsequent phases of education are seen as progressions, not as contradictions