1. Write a note each on ‘life’, ‘experience’ and ‘experience’.

Life: Life in spiritual terms is defined as a series of experience. These

experiences determine the quality of life that a person leads.

Experience: Experience is defined as individual coming in contact with

the world. These again can be divided into 2 parts-subjective and
objective experiences. The former is inward experience and the latter
is an outward experience. In subjective experience the base mind,
which is the inward mechanism of a man is confined to the four walls of
sub-conscious mind. Whereas objective experience is it is magnified
outside the four walls of sub conscious mind i.e. the world. Therefore it
extends to nature (scientists), people (politicians) and wealth
(economists).

Experiencer: The attributed name of player in the body. It is the

human being who undergoes the series of experience. He is a
combination of spirit and matter i.e. spirit which is pure consciousness
and matter is made up of body, mind and intellect. All of them facilitate
the human to go through these experiences.

2. What is the purpose of education and how to achieve that?

First of all education is defined as- to draw out knowledge which is

already present inside you. Thereby education can be servile or liberal
in nature. At an individual level the purpose is to achieve clarity of
thought, value based direction in life, to have dynamic action and to
chaser emotions. As for the social, national and international levels it is
to bring home the pivotal but forgotten role of education we need to
recall that there is a fundamental difference between human beings
and animals. Instincts and physical needs alone can bring ants, bees,
or herds of beasts together to live in a perfectly functioning animal
society. Human beings do not function that way. They are not
constrained by nature to follow only those ways that is necessary for
the harmonious operation of their society. If they are to form a viable,
thriving society, they must choose to do so. What drives that choice is
the sharing of common goals, beliefs, values and outlook on life.
Without a common framework binding its members, a human society
cannot continue to exist; it will disintegrate and be absorbed by other
societies. Further, the society must ensure that the common ground
will continue to hold from generation to generation. This is the social
purpose of education. The education system of a society produces the
citizens and leaders needed for the smooth operation of that society,
now and unto the future. The way to achieve the purpose would be
through moral training that would form an integral part of education.
All plans for improving education will be totally useless unless they are
based on a full understanding of this key fact. This requires revamping
our curriculum, rewriting our textbooks, retraining our teachers, and
realizing that we must do all this ourselves.

3. Distinguish Intellect from mind?

The intellect and mind are interrelated and interdependent and one
cannot function without the aid of the other Mind is bombarded by the
inputs received from all our sense organs. When the mind on its own
without the aid of the intellect, responds to these inputs by means of
actions, such actions arise out of ignorance. Intellect is known as
knowledge. Intellect does not mean the mundane knowledge. Mundane
knowledge is different from the supreme intellect. The former is
acquired by worldly experience and exposures and mainly deals with
objects. The supreme intellect deals only with internal exploration
(search within) and deals with the source of the object and not with the
object itself. Therefore intellect is a product that develops from the
mind. The confusion prevails only in the mind. When the mind is in a
state of confusion, the intellect comes to its rescue.
The properties of both of them are as follows:

INTELLECT MIND

Insight Impulses

Judgement feelings and emotions

Analysis Likes and dislikes

Discriminate flow Indiscriminate flow

Streamlined Sporadic

Pattern breaking Pattern making

Congruous Bundle of contradictions

Explores the unknown Operates with known

4. Define desire and its modifications?

Traditions have described desire as an impediment to enlightenment.

Desire is want or need or demand of something.
Desire and its modifications can be best described by Bhagavad gita
sloka-chapter 2 verses 62 and 63.

Dhyayto visayan pumsah,sangas tesupajayate

Sangat sanjayate kamat, kamat krodho bhijayate

Krodhad bhavati sahmohah,samohahat smriti-vibhramahah

Smriti-bhramsad buddhinaaso buddhi nasat pranasyati

Translation

Krishna states that one who contemplates sensual objects like form and
touch develops in the mind attachment for them in the form of lust
deluded into believing such objects to be the root cause of apparent
happiness. From this attachment springs desire which is but a
modification of attachment. Sometimes one is able to gratify ones
senses by enjoying these sense objects. At that time a particular state
of mind arises where one becomes enslaved and controlled by the
desire of the very same object one is seeking so desperately to exploit.
Other times ones desires are thwarted and obstructed and unfulfilled in
satisfying ones desire to experience sense objects leads to frustration
which is also a modification of the mind. At this time anger is directed in
fury towards whatever it was that became the obstacle that blocked
ones gratification. He further explains here that from anger arises
delusion which is the lack of discrimination about knowing what actions
to perform and what actions not to perform. From delusion comes
confusion which is the bewilderment of intelligence and forgetfulness of
the truths written in the Vedic scriptures instructed by the spiritual
master. From confusion comes illusion the misinterpretation of intellect
in determining the true nature of reality. From illusion one becomes
completely ruined. One loses focus on the goal of material existence
and the purpose of human life and lives in the darkness of nascence.
Thus it must be understood that controlling one’s mind is essential.