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“The inner always overcomes the outer”

manner, beyond the laboured, thought-laden processes of a thor-
oughly conditioned mind.” He discovers that “true education…[is]
a process of unlearning”.

Meenakshi Thapan, who as a young student had the opportunity
to spend some days in K’s presence, learnt the vital truth that the
transcendental sacred dimension does not just lie ‘out there’, but
is immanent in the everyday world of our relationships with oth-
ers and with Nature. The task for us is to live in the light of this
vision, expanding the boundaries of the self, outward towards the
whole of humanity, and developing a global outlook. She finds that
schools and teachers need to develop an ethos which, in spite of
the seemingly all-powerful separative pull of the individual self,
nurtures the innate goodness of the child and “engenders empathy,
compassion and humanism.”

Hillary Rodrigues, a professor of Religious Studies, discovered K
early in his life. Disenchanted with the inadequacy of science to
point to any meaning in life, he serendipitously came across a book
by K which spoke to his need for meaning. He found K speaking in
clear language to his own condition, pointing to the need for a pro-
found transformation at the centre of one’s being. As a researcher
and professor, he now shares through his books, reflections on the
teachings from various perspectives and remains committed to
deeply exploring K’s teachings.

Thomas Metzinger, a cutting-edge philosopher of consciousness,
is convinced that K was the greatest mind he has ever met, a con-
viction that rests on a feeling that K’s ‘presence’ itself ‘conveyed
something’ non-verbally. He draws our attention to “the dawn-
ing insight that ‘observing without an observer’ might actually be
something that already happens all the time.” Metzinger explores
the many ways in which we block such pure observation by creating

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