The Importance of Education - Learning Life: Why Conscious Education is Essential for Human Growth and Well-being
Relearning Life: Building a Society of Conscious Individuals
Why it is necessary to go to a school, to get education, is because you learn there. There you find someone who is willing to invest his energies in guiding you, telling you that what you are doing is not the right way, and suggesting why not take this path, or that path. There you find the presence of a teacher, a guru, who shows you the right direction so that, by being in their presence for a sufficient amount of time, you get the direction.
People who don’t get that education or learning tend to do things however they like to do. So naturally, they go by tendencies, by their likes or dislikes, because someone who is aware of the path is not there to show them the right path. Have you seen that people who didn’t learn a thing about life, about themselves, they naturally become egoistic, destructive, and not experienced or evolved.
Then they cannot take care of their health, well-being properly, and they cannot handle their own liberation well either. So, if you want everything in the right way, if you want to manifest a life the way you want to, you need to learn how to do things.
Right now, today, if we are suffering in our well-being, our health, our wealth, and prosperity, that means we as a nation have largely failed our people. It is time we become conscious of our own living and learn how to live life in order to find its full expression.
So, we need a platform where life can be taught as a way of conscious living. Instead of investing our whole wealth in medical care, medicine, anger management, health management, and so on, we need a platform, an institution where life can be taught. So, an ashram is largely a good step in that direction. Similarly, Amrqh® has been developed step by step, little by little, so that life can be taught.
Understanding the Brain’s Natural Reward System: Why Meaning, Money, and Addiction All Feel Similar — but Are Not
The human brain already comes equipped with a highly sophisticated chemical system that governs attention, learning, motivation, and reward. Two of the most important players in this system are acetylcholine (ACh) and dopamine. Acetylcholine is responsible for clarity, focus, and learning, while dopamine is responsible for motivation, drive, and the feeling that “this is worth doing again.”
In a balanced state, life flows naturally: you pay attention (ACh), you act meaningfully, you experience reward (dopamine), and this cycle continues smoothly. The problem is not that the brain lacks these chemicals. The problem arises when this natural rhythm is disrupted by modern patterns of stimulation.
Today’s environment offers constant artificial triggers for dopamine. Social media, instant entertainment, and highly stimulating content activate reward pathways without requiring real effort or time. Because of this, the brain begins to expect reward without work. Over time, motivation for slower, meaningful activities weakens, not because the system is broken, but because it has been conditioned differently.
This is where something like money plays an important role in society. Money is not just a medium of exchange; psychologically, it functions as a structured reward system. When you work and receive money, your brain interprets it as: “Effort led to outcome. Repeat this behavior.” For example, if you do a job for someone and they pay you, there is a clear loop — action, reward, and reinforcement. This keeps human activity stable and continuous. In that sense, money acts as an external organization of the brain’s dopamine system, aligning effort with reward so that work does not collapse into meaninglessness.
Now, contrast this with artificial chemical shortcuts like nicotine in gutkha or tobacco. Nicotine directly binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain, which are part of the system that regulates attention and neural activation. This creates an abnormal stimulation of brain circuits that indirectly leads to a sharp dopamine release. The person feels suddenly alert, slightly energized, and temporarily relieved from stress or fatigue. In that moment, it feels like control or clarity.
However, this is not the same as natural balance. Nicotine does not support the system; it hijacks it. Instead of a slow, stable cycle of attention → action → reward, nicotine creates a shortcut: stimulation → dopamine spike → temporary relief → drop in baseline state. After the effect fades, the brain feels lower than before, which creates the urge to repeat the cycle. This is how dependence forms — not because the person lacks willpower, but because the reward system has been repeatedly trained on artificial spikes instead of natural effort-based rewards.
In contrast, natural dopamine comes from processes like completing meaningful work, physical exercise, sunlight exposure, social connection, and achieving small goals. These do not create extreme spikes, but they build a stable internal system where motivation sustains itself. Acetylcholine supports this by maintaining focus and presence, allowing the person to stay engaged long enough to experience meaningful reward.
This is why psychology, culture, and structured living are important. The brain is not operating in isolation; it is shaped by environment and habits. Psychology helps us understand these mechanisms, culture guides what is considered meaningful behavior, and structured society ensures that effort is connected to reward in a stable way. Without this alignment, the brain easily shifts toward artificial stimulation or compulsive habits, and then we begin to rely on substances or distractions just to feel normal.
In essence, the human system is not broken — it is simply sensitive. When life is aligned properly, acetylcholine provides clarity, dopamine provides direction, and even money becomes a healthy feedback mechanism for effort. But when artificial stimulation dominates, even simple focus and work begin to feel difficult, and the mind starts searching for shortcuts like nicotine, which temporarily mimic reward but disrupt long-term balance.
True stability does not come from increasing chemicals artificially. It comes from creating a life where the brain’s natural cycles of attention, action, and reward can function the way they were designed to.
Q&A
Participant:
If the brain already has acetylcholine and dopamine, why do people still feel restless… why do they get pulled toward nicotine, money, or constant stimulation?
Parth:
You are asking about chemistry. But life is not experienced as chemistry. It is experienced as longing.
A human being is not addicted to substances in the beginning. He is first restless inside himself. Something in him is always saying, “Is this all? There must be more.”
Acetylcholine is not a chemical in that sense — it is the possibility of being fully here. When it is active, there is simple clarity. You are just with what is, without noise.
Dopamine is not just reward — it is the energy of reaching toward life. It says, “Go. Live. Do. Become.”
When these two move together naturally, a human being feels quietly complete in action.
But see what has happened.
Modern life does not allow waiting. It has made impatience a lifestyle. The moment there is even a small gap inside, it must be filled — with a message, a video, a taste, a smoke, a notification.
And slowly, the human being forgets how to sit with his own inner silence.
This is where something like nicotine enters.
Not as a “drug” in the beginning… but as a companion to discomfort.
A person is tired. Not just physically — but inwardly tired of himself.
He takes nicotine.
For a few moments, something shifts. The mind becomes sharp. The fog lifts. There is a small sense of “I am okay now.”
It is not pleasure. It is relief from discomfort he didn’t know how to carry.
And because that relief feels like peace, he returns to it again.
But notice — he is not chasing joy. He is escaping a small inner unease.
That is how dependency is born.
Not from enjoyment… but from inability to sit with oneself.
Now look at money.
Money is not just numbers. It is society saying:
“Your action mattered.”
When you work and receive money, something deep inside feels aligned. Not because of greed — but because effort has been acknowledged.
There is a quiet dignity in it:
> “What I did in the world created value.”
And the mind relaxes into that rhythm: effort → expression → recognition.
In that sense, money becomes a bridge between inner effort and outer reality. It keeps life moving in a structured way.
But when this bridge is broken — when reward is disconnected from effort — the human mind starts searching for shortcuts. Not because it is bad, but because it is confused.
Then nicotine, sugar, endless scrolling… they become small artificial “yes” signals to a life that is not feeling complete in its own movement.
Participant:
So what is actually missing?
Parth:
Nothing is missing in the brain.
What is missing is not chemistry — it is intimacy with life.
You are not lacking dopamine.
You are lacking meaningful engagement.
You are not lacking acetylcholine.
You are lacking the ability to simply stay present without escaping.
When a human being learns — even for a few moments — to remain with himself without running away, something subtle happens.
The urge to stimulate drops on its own.
Not because you fought it…
but because you are no longer fleeing from yourself.
Then work is no longer a burden.
Money is no longer a craving.
Even silence is no longer uncomfortable.
Life becomes enough — not because it became perfect, but because you stopped abandoning it. And in that stopping… everything else quietly falls into place.
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