... inspired by the ideals of spiritual education. II But let us ask the central question: "What is spiritual education? And what are the real issues pertaining to spiritual education as far as its nature and methodologies are concerned?" There is here a great deal of inadequacy of inquiry, and a good deal of confusion. In the first place, spiritual education tends to be confused with... Education PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL EDUCATION III (Rationale and Relationship with Integral Education) Why do we need Spiritual Education? What does it really mean? Is it practicable? And what reforms could we propose in our educational system so as to have the right place for spiritual education in it? All these are important and difficult questions... conflict between the rational, ethical and aesthetic. Spiritual education will have no quarrel with all that is rational and all that is scientific. The insistence on the pursuit of truth that is inherent in rational and scientific education must be welcomed in the processes and methods of spiritual education. True spiritual education will aim at the harmonisation of spiritual knowledge, phi ...
... inspired by the ideals of spiritual education. Page 331 II But let us ask the central question: "What is spiritual education? And what are the real issues pertaining to spiritual education as far as its nature and methodologies are concerned?" There is here a great deal of inadequacy of inquiry, and a good deal of confusion. In the first place, spiritual education tends to be confused... and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays Philosophy of Spiritual Education Why do we need Spiritual Education? What does it really mean? Is it practicable? And what reforms could we propose in our educational system so as to have the right place for spiritual education in it? All these are important and difficult questions, and within the short time available... conflict between the rational, ethical and aesthetic. Spiritual education will have no quarrel with all that is rational and all that is scientific. The insistence on the pursuit of truth that is inherent in rational and scientific education must be welcomed in the processes and methods of spiritual education. True spiritual education will aim at the harmonisation of spiritual knowledge, Page ...
... PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL EDUCATION -1 There has been in the U.K. during the last two decades, a good deal of discussion on the theme of spiritual education. Apart from brilliant papers by Mac Laughlin and several others, the paper by David Carr another by Michael Hand are not only instructive but provide us with analyses of the issues and also of the phrase 'spiritual education' which can... , and further, considering that spiritual education is not identical with religious education, one has to acknowledge the need to have a place for different sorts of school community in which different sorts of initial spiritual education might be provided. He concedes, however, that this conclusion is deeply at odds with those who advocate spiritual education to be spread across the curriculum... al and methodical processes, which are known in India as yogic methods. Hence, larger conceptions of spiritual education can be formulated. Again, spiritual education implies a vaster background of psychology of spiritual experience on a sound basis of which the pedagogy of spiritual education can be built. We seem to be as yet in a state of beginnings of spiritual pedagogy, and Carr has rendered ...
... Notes Relating to Spiritual Education There are three respects in which spiritual education will differ from religious education, and as a consequence, will render it free from the objection that it is inadmissible or controversial as far its relevance to common schools is concerned. * * * First of all, spiritual education will build itself on strong foundations... enjoy fruitfully activities on the earth, and it is for this reason that the idea of spiritual education is resented by them on the supposition that since spiritual education is transcendental in character, it will defeat the very purposes of the school education. They conclude, therefore, that spiritual education should have no place in school education. * * * Undoubtedly, if spirituality... foundations of physical, vital and mental education, without which the sources of spiritual education will remain dry and infertile. * * * Secondly, spiritual education will combat dogmatism in regard to any theory or doctrine, — scientific, philosophical, theological, religious, moral or aesthetic, and will admit critical inquiry and insist on continuous quest so as convert any belief, faith or ...
... about psychic and spiritual education. A distinction was sought to be made between psychic and spiritual education on the one hand and moral and religious education on the other. It was pointed out that psychic and spiritual education cannot be equated with a kind of education in moral science since the two stand on different planes. She added that psychic and spiritual education emphasize a higher... vital and mental education can be fully integrated only if we give chance to the psychic and spiritual education. He added that the main problem for implementing the psychic and spiritual education is related to the teachers Page 133 CD pointed out that by emphasising psychic and spiritual education as the only method of integral education, we are not limiting the available alternative... theme of psychic and spiritual education. Commenting upon what was said earlier on that subject, she said that what is being offered in our life is a choice between the life of joy and sorrow and the life guided by the psychic and spiritual light. She said that the choice is always difficult, and even the path that has to be followed in regard to psychic and spiritual education is very difficult, but ...
... of NCERT covering all the regions of the country. *Recently on recommendations of NCERT Department of Education, MHRD has declared prominent NGO's like Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE) Mysore, Sri Aurobindo Education Society, New Delhi, Chinmoy Mission, Prajapita Brahma Kumaris lswariya Viswa Vidyalaya, Santi Kunj, Hardwar, Kendriyajeevan Vigyan Academy, National Spiritual... developed professional programmes in teacher education in which value education has been incorporated in the curriculum and have been conducting such courses. The Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE), Mysore, has been conducting a value oriented B.Ed, course for over 25 years. There are two challenges that may have to be faced in providing value orientation to teacher educat... limited and specific objective of training students to earn a livelihood. Though the education system has imposed on most schools and syllabi a mandatory element of values or moral and so-called spiritual- education, it does not seem that any of us can seriously or honestly claim that we have, on the whole, produced morally or spiritually evolved beings over the last so many generations. If anything, each ...
... doors to the future. These following steps will form the object of what I call spiritual education. But before we enter on this new stage and deal with the question in detail, an explanation is necessary. Why is a distinction made between the psychic education of which we have just spoken and the spiritual education of which we are about to speak now? Because the two are usually confused under the... On Education Psychic Education and Spiritual Education So far we have dealt only with the education that can be given to all children born upon earth and which is concerned with purely human faculties. But one need not inevitably stop there. Every human being carries hidden within him the possibility of a greater consciousness which goes beyond the bounds... Page 35 become conscious of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish all egoism; but to live a spiritual life you must no longer have an ego. Here also, in spiritual education, the goal you set before you will assume, in the mind's formulation of it, different names according to the environment in which you have been brought up, the path you have followed and the ...
... future. lt is these later steps that will be the subject-matter of what I call spiritual education. But before we enter this new stage and deal with the question in detail, an explanation is necessary. Why is there a distinction made between the psychic education of which we have just spoken and the spiritual education of which we are going to speak presently? Because the two are usually . mixed... On Education VI PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION Till now we have dealt with the education which can be given to all children born upon earth; it is concerned with purely human faculties. But one need not stop there. Every human being carries hidden within him the possibility of a greater consciousness beyond the frame of his normal life... space. To become fully aware of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish in you all selfishness; but to live a spiritual life you must be selfless. Here also in spiritual education, the goal you set before you will assume, in the mind's formulation of it, dNerent names according to the environment in which you have grown, the path you have followed and the affinities of ...
... Child, Teacher and Teacher Education PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL EDUCATION II A philosophical study of Spiritual Education needs to delve in to the field of the spirituality at a deeper level, so that we can propose a programme of Spiritual Education as a programme of the discovery and realization of the Spirit with as much pedagogical rigor as he employ in... in the realm of the discovery and realization of the natures and power of Matter, Life and Mind. We have also to show the relevance of Spiritual Education to the programme of enrichment and fulfillment of life and consequent fulfillment of the various activities of Matter, Life and Mind, which are at presence pursued in School Education. I Spirituality and Yoga In the history of ...
... from experience should be brought to the ken of experience. VI These principles of education have a profound bearing on what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have called psychic and spiritual education. These two domains bring into the picture all that is central to value-oriented education, and to higher and profounder elements of human psychology. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have advocated... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, is a vast domain of the inmost soul, of the immobile silence, of the higher objects of the higher psychological exploration. The justification for psychic and spiritual education rests upon three important considerations: (a) education should provide to the individual a steady exploration of something that is inmost in the psychological complexity of Page 81 ... consultations and in their organisation of exhibition, dance, drama, music and numerous other educational activities. It is in the context of this vibrating and powerful process of the psychic and spiritual education that the activities of the physical, vital and mental education were pursued and worked out at this great Centre of experimentation. IX It is often asked whether having invented a ...
... Delhi-110065 164.Sarkar, Tripti 61 Aravalli, DDA Flats Alakananda, New Delhi -110019 165.Seetha Ram, A.R. Principal, B.Ed. School Ramakrishna Institute of Moral & Spiritual Education Yadavagiri, Mysore - 570020 166.Sengupta, A.K. Senior Addl. P.I.O. P.I.B., Ministry ofl&B Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi -110001 167.Sethi, Rashmi D-887... Delhi. Professor J.S. Rajput, Director, NCERT, New Delhi. Shri Stephen Rudolf, Jiva Institute, Faridabad. Professor A.R. Seetharam, Principal, Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education, Mysore. Dr. Kavita Sharma, Principal, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi. Professor Ramjee Singh, Former Vice-Chancellor, Jain Vishwa Bharati, Ladnoo. Professor (Ms.)Suzie... ICSE Professor B.P. Khandelwal Director, NIEPA Professor A.R. Seetha Ram Principal, Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education 12.45 p.m. : Open Discussion 1.15 p.m. : Chairperson's Address 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. : LUNCH BREAK 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p. m : Session ...
... In this vision the longings of the heart as well as the promptings of the mind would both find their harmonious blending and their ultimate satisfaction. The Psychic and the Spiritual Education Till now we have dealt with the education which can be given to all children born upon earth; it is concerned will purely human faculties. But, as The Mother says, one need... future. The Mother puts the question: Why is it necessary to make a distinction between the psychic Page 75 education of which we have just now spoken and spiritual education of which we are going to speak presently It is necessary because the two are usually mixed up under the generic name 'yogic discipline', although the goal they aim at is very different in each... and space. To become fully aware of your psychic being and to live a psychic life you must abolish in you selfishness; but to live a spiritual life you must be selfless. Here also in spiritual education, the goal you set before you will assume, in the mind's formulation of it, different names according to the environment in which you have grown, the path you have followed and the affinities ...
... t in ancient India, this was considered to be the qualification cut the teacher. The pupils contact with the teacher who is seated so high, who has aspired so high in his life was a part of spiritual education. Not merely through any scriptures. Next the teacher prays, "May my body be swift to all worksˮ. It may be understood that immortality can only be attained when one accomplishes one's works... illumination. It can be said that it is on account of the method of concentration which has been emphasised in the Upanishad as a process of education that today, when we are looking for methods of spiritual education, which are free from various prescriptions of religious practices, the relevance of the Upanishads becomes more direct. iv) The Contents of Knowledge There are, it seems, four important ...
... social justice. c. To foster among teachers and students and, through them in society generally, integral development of values inherent in physical, vital, rational, aesthetic, ethical and spiritual education. d. To promote synthesis of knowledge, with special emphasis on unity of scientific and spiritual pursuits that would revitalise our country's heritage and promote the ideal of the whole... university should be basically an academic leader, who is also involved in the cultural activities and activities that are central to the development of values of physical, ethical, aesthetic and spiritual education. What applies to the Vice-chancellor applies equally to the principal, since the principal has a large direct contact with teachers and students, and his or her responsibilities have to be also ...
... your life." 11 V And yet the psychic opening or the seeking and the finding of the soul is but a stage in integral education. The Mother calls these further stages steps in "spiritual education". If the psychic opening makes possible a purified and puissant life here and now "in the universe of forms", a Page 515 spiritual liberation means "a return to the unmanifest",... upon the consciousness of individual beings, but upon the very substance of which they are built and upon the environment in which they live. 12 It is true that at a time when psychic and spiritual education are a mystery to most educationists, a mere will-o'-the-wisp and a thing not to be pinned down in the curriculum, or to hold on to and semesterise and evaluate in terms of alphabetised grades ...
... Pupil" which have received countrywide attention in India. IV Principles and methods of education advocated by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have a profound bearing on psychic and spiritual education. These two domains bring into the picture all that is central to value-oriented education, and to higher and profounder elements of human psychology. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have advocated... to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, is a vast domain of the inmost soul, of the immobile silence, of the higher objects of the higher psychological exploration. The justification for psychic and spiritual education rests upon three important considerations: (a) education should provide to the individual a steady exploration of something that is inmost in the psychological complexity of human consciousness; ...
... Questions and Answers (1954) 17 February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Psychic Education and Spiritual Education ". Once the being has entered into contact with the psychic, why does the psychic again hide itself? It is not the psychic that hides itself, it is the being which returns to its ordinary consciousness!... It is ...
... if you did not want to be crushed by them, you will be able to walk on, straight and firm, conscious of your destiny, master of your life. The Mother On Education: Psychic Education and Spiritual Education ...
... of integral education implies a simultaneous integrated process of the development of the qualities and values relevant to physical education, vital education, mental education, psychic and spiritual education. •In the domain of physical education, the values that are implied are those of health, strength, plasticity, grace and beauty. In the domain of emotional education or vital education ...
... where truth alone will prevail and where beauty and goodness will pervade. At the deepest level, value-oriented education turns to the education of the soul, to the psychic education and to spiritual education. This education has three aspects: discovery of the soul and the spirit, preparation of the outer nature of the body, life and mind so as to make them fit to permit the sovereignty of the soul ...
... its birth and instrumental in its creation. There is nothing more important than the transformation. There is no interest more worthwhile." (Ibid.) (9)Not a religious education but a spiritual education. The Mother elucidates: "You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching ...
... constituted now is a pack et of energy behind which divine omnipotence really stands in a veiled condition and that, once the veil is removed by methods appropriate to physical education and spiritual education, that divine omnipotence can manifest in amazing manners and can even be established in varying degrees on a durable basis. We have made a study of this aspect of the human body and presented ...
... that our ancient system of education had underlined this important aspect will remain a permanent contribution to the higher causes of civilisation. Contemporary Crisis; Value-Education; Spiritual Education: It is important to note that there is an increasing awareness both in India and the world that the contemporary crisis is fundamentally the crisis of the disbalancement, of an exaggerated ...
... of integral education implies a simultaneous integrated process of the development of the qualities and values relevant to physical education, vital education, mental education, psychic and spiritual education. In the domain of physical education, the values that are implied are those of health, strength, plasticity, grace and beauty. In the domain of emotional education or vital education ...
... imagination and artistic expression through various forms of expression), ethical education (viz., pursuit of goodwill, goodness, self-control and self-knowledge through self-control), and spiritual education (viz., pursuit of universality, unity, integration, oneness, and infinite reverence for the highest expressions of truth, beauty and goodness); (c)Learning to learn or learning to know ...
... process of learning. (2) It would be possible in this flexible organization to ensure facilities for individual attention which is indispensable, particularly, in the field of moral and spiritual education. (3) Works of productive labour can flourish in this setting with a naturalness that is so essential to the joy of work. These works need not be given as tasks. But students can be stimulated ...
... constantly so as to be at the height of your task and truly fulfil the duty which you owe your child by the mere fact of your having brought him into existence. Page 520 Psychic and Spiritual Education ... The three lines of education — physical, vital and mental — deal with that which may be defined as the means of building up the personality, raising the individual out of the amorphous ...
... blissfully I spent my days with the Master. It is simply astonishing to think how, through play, merriment and Page 299 other ordinary daily activities, he gave us the most exalted spiritual education and moulded our lives without our knowledge. References 1. Eastern and Western Disciples, The Life of Swami Vivekananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashram 1979), vol. l,p.21. 2. Ibid ...
... emphasis on value-oriented education that can develop and foster values involved in physical education, vital and emotional education, rational education, aesthetic education, ethical education and spiritual education; (c)Learning to learn or learning to know, learning to do, learning to co-operate, and learning to be; and Page 23 (d) Exploration of the highest aim of life, exploration ...
... and void. It is the problem with the whole of humanity. Q: In clarification of the earlier question would you agree that an increasing degree of materialism coupled with a shift from spiritual education have been the most important causation factors? A: There is a seeking everywhere and man is trying to find a way out. He experiments with whatever idea comes to his mind. Some try new ...
... special references and a special appendix is included in order to give a broader knowledge about our ideal, for those who want to study in further details. The section of psychic and spiritual education could not be included in this volume. This section will be dealt with in the Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. IV , No. l. ...
... , Pandit, Madhav Pandit, Madhav, ed. Poems (1939) Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga (1st imp. 1992) Psychology for Future Education (1977) Dimensions of Spiritual Education (1975) In Life's Temple (1965) Yoga of Sri Aurobindo (2d imp. 1983) Sweet Mother (1974) Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography (1989) Matrimandir (1974) My Mother ...
... December 1943, the enrolment steadily increased and a hostel had to Page 717 be established. The Ashram ideal of integral education meant physical, vital, mental, psychic and spiritual education in harmonious flowering, but physical education was still the base or stem of the whole, and therefore from the outset the Ashram School gave special importance to sports, games and athletics ...
... be at once individual and communal, regional and national, and eventually a work not only for the nation but for the whole human people. The immediate action of this will be a new creation, a spiritual education and culture, an enlarged social spirit founded not on division but on unity, on the perfect growth and freedom of the individual, but also on his unity with others and his dedication to a larger ...
... Questions and Answers (1954) 24 February 1954 This talk is based upon Mother's essay " Psychic Education and Spiritual Education ". Sweet Mother, here you have said: "From beyond the frontiers of form a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which is as yet unexpressed and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course ...
... once individual and communal, regional and national, and eventually a work not only for the nation but for the whole human people. The immediate object of this action will be a new creation, a spiritual education and culture, an enlarged social spirit founded not on division but on unity, on the perfect growth and freedom of the individual, but also on his unity with others and his dedication to a larger ...
... her own answers. ) How can humanity become one? By becoming conscious of its origin. Page 60 What is the way of making the consciousness of human unity grow in man? Spiritual education, that is to say an education which gives more importance to the growth of the spirit than to any religious or moral teaching or to the material so-called knowledge. What is a change of c ...
... its forms can provide—not as it's generally understood, but as we understand it here: education in art, education in ... from the education of the body, from the most material progress, to the spiritual education and progress through yoga; the whole spectrum, everything that leads humanity towards its future realization. Money should serve to augment that and to augment the material base for the earth's ...
... possibility and a special difficulty to resolve. I have even said, I believe, that each one here is an impossibility. 3 But this way of seeing is too far removed from the state of mind and spiritual education in which X has lived, 4 of course, for him to understand. Nor am I in favor of proselytizing ( to convince X ); it would disturb him quite needlessly. He has not come here for that. He came ...
... that our ancient system of education had underlined this important aspect will remain a permanent contribution to the higher causes of civilisation. Contemporary Crisis; Value-Education; Spiritual Education It is important to note that there is an increasing awareness both in India and the world that the contemporary crisis is fundamentally the crisis of the disbalancement, of an exaggerated ...
... situation is so confusing that there is a great need to clarify the entire domain of moral and spiritual values which would also throw considerable light on what we should mean by psychic and spiritual education. A question is often raised as to whether there is any valid distinction between moral and spiritual values. In answer, it must be said that much depends upon what we intend to include in ...
... of learning. It would be possible in this flexible organization , to ensure facilities for individual attention which is indispensable, particularly, in the field of moral and spiritual education. Works of productive labour, can flourish in this setting with naturalness that is so essential to the joy of work. These works need not be given Page 98 as tasks ...
... of integral education implies a simultaneous integrated process of the development of the qualities and values relevant to physical education, vital education, mental education, psychic and spiritual education. e. In the domain of physical education, the values that are implied are those of health, strength, plasticity, grace and beauty. In the domain of emotional education or vital education, ...
... Panthnira-peksha, Seva, etc. are religious based Sanskrit terminology. 11.Fundamentalist Hindu view is 'minoritarian' and nor 'majoritarian' Hindu view. It makes people suspicious of spiritual education and tradition: Man does not live by bread alone. He has over and above a physical dimension, a mental, an intellectual and spiritual dimension. 12. A holistic approach to education ...
... which is responsive and comprehensive, covering all aspects and all stages of education, and having unequivocal orientation towards values and ethics relevant to our tradition and culture. * Spiritual education, yoga and meditation should be the part and parcel of Value-Oriented Education. The roles of Gurus and the parents are very important in imparting value-based education. Information technology ...
... character is a developed personality that harmonises the demands of physical education, vital education, emotional education, of rational education, aesthetic education, ethical education, and spiritual education. III In our present system of education, all that we have conceived here to be relevant to the development of character is sadly missing. We are too preoccupied with mental development ...
... dissolute teacher may teach effectively; he also influences lives of the pupils no less, but sadly. Contact with great and good teachers as also with great ideas is the foundation of moral and spiritual education. The most effective weapon of a teacher is the silent power of example; it matters in the end and always. It is, therefore, necessary that teacher education should aim not at merely cultivation ...
... of the world that have aimed at the integral development of students, which would harmonize the values of physical education, aesthetic education, rational education, ethical education, and spiritual education; 6.A schedule will be annexed to the legislative bill, which Page 9 will indicate some specific lines on which innovations can possibly be conceived, and it could also specify ...
... Mother gave her own answers: (1) How can humanity become one? By becoming conscious of its origin. (2) What is the way of making the consciousness of human unity grow in man? Spiritual education... which gives more importance to the growth of the spirit than to any religious or moral teaching or to the material so-called knowledge. (3) What is a change of consciousness? .. ...
... only one can think of nationalising all activities. Meanwhile everybody should be taught that the work they do must be done in a spirit of service and offering to all. Psychic and Spiritual Education See the Mother's writing about this subject. (To be published in the Bulletin of Physical Education V. IV No. I.) It should be borne in mind that man and woman should be given ...
... The Mother (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 3 Page 25.) VIII. EDUCATION IV-MENTAL EDUCATION— The Mother (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 4 Page 118.) IX. EDUCATION V-PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION - ' — The Mother (To appear in Bulletin Vol. 4 No. 1.) X . MESSAGE—Sri Aur obindo (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 1 Page 4.) Page 36 ...
... be at once individual and communal, regional and national, and eventually a work not only for the nation but for the whole human people. The immediate action of this will be a new creation, a spiritual education and culture, an enlarged social spirit founded not on division but on unity... not on any Western model but on the communal principle native to India. Page 527 Here in a few ...
... thought of making arrangements for their education and play. That is how the School and Playground gradually came into being. Whatever Mother did she always oriented it towards Page 276 Mother distributing groundnuts to the Dining Room workers on 23/24.4.50 Page 277 a great spiritual ideal. Education and children's sports were no exception... developed into Physical Education and through education in general, and physical education in particular, Mother wanted to prepare the youth for an integral perfection which would ultimately lead them towards an integral transformation of which physical transformation would be the ultimate aim. Using me as her instrument, Mother has built our organisation of Physical Education. When did... the blessings of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Mother must have seen some possibilities in physical education as regards physical transformation and integral education for making a more complete being. So she gave her help, support and guidance in all possible manner and the Department of physical Education shaped up as you see it today. Page 265 Mother inaugurating ...
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