No matter your path getting educated so you can survive better here on earth will tend to keep you alive longer.
And Education is a part of Enlightenment. Why?
I think when I went to Nepal and India and met people who had never been to school a day in their lives out in the country in the 1980s I could see how an education is important.
Because this is how people have been for thousands and thousands of years where no one was educated at all beyond teaching from their parents or grandparents or relatives or friends.
So, people would gather around us out in the country then sometimes 100 people or more and just stare at us because we were Americans and were educated and obviously were from somewhere else like another planet they had never been to (at least yet).
Imagine if this was you. Where you didn't read or write any language? Imagine watching television and not knowing where anything was that people were talking about on Television. And not only that you could never afford to own a television but you could watch movies with a VCR through a television with 50 to 100 other people in a Tent somewhere like I watched one of the Rambo Movies in Bodhgaya, India while i was there in December of 1985 with my family then.
Most of what I experienced in India and Nepal you absolutely would not believe now because you have no context for it.
For example, we were riding in a bus my family and I and another bus broke down so all the people on that bus got onto our bus and most of them had to stand up because all the seats were already filled in our bus. But two children being crushed who were about 4 and 6 years old were screaming. So, I was near so I just grabbed one by the hand and pulled them onto my lap and my wife's lap so these children would survive this experience.
When the bus got to it's destination the boy child said to me: "Very Good!" with that English and India accent all combined like a British officer might say still.
As I said you had to be there to believe it. Or riding on steam trains with hundreds of people hanging onto the outside of the train. That was hard to believe too even though I experienced it then with my family. Or the fact that I couldn't buy a private compartment for my family so we all would have had to ride outside of the train too and hold on which wasn't happening.
Until I learned that Scalpers buy all the compartment tickets so the only way you can get your own compartment to ride in with your family was through the Scalpers who bought all the tickets for compartments so you had to know where they were.
So, the point of all of this is: "Getting educated is part of your journey into Enlightenment and just like getting educated through High School or College or both tends to increase your life span, becoming enlightened in addition to getting educated also increases your lifespan and usually your happiness being alive too.
By God's Grace
PS So, why is enlightenment important to the survival of all of us?
Because otherwise we likely will go extinct this century from Global Warming or AI or something else. that's why!
