This cleansing, purging, and refining is very important. For proper and adequate management of all our activities both refinement and nourishment are necessary.
Meditation is the process of both refinement and nourishment.
Hence, it should be a compulsory component of our education. In fact, education can be comprehensive and inclusive only when it also incorporates the spiritual science and training in meditation. Problems can be solved only when consciousness is kept at the centre and all other things at the periphery. All our thinking should be directed to the determining of the effect an activity or action will have on the consciousness. What may appear momentarily beneficial may have a baneful long-term effect on the consciousness.