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वीरेश्वराय विद्महे विवेकानन्दाय धीमहि । तन्नो वीर:
प्रचोदयात् ।
Some
years ago, the UNESCO appointed a commission of inquiry on
education in the post-War world. The French Education Minister
of the time, who became also the Prime-Minister later, M.Edger
Faure, was the Chairman of the Commission. He issued a report
bearing a significant title: Learning
to Be. Till now, the only stress in
education is learning to do. Yes, we shall continue to stress
the learning to do ideas and techniques; but the report
emphasises that the main stress in education should be learning
to be. Learning to do is included in ‘Learning to be’, that is
man in depth – the great science of "adhyatma-vidya".
Thus we have to get an education
in which the physical and social sciences and the science of man
in depth should go hand in hand, under the philosophy of a
comprehensive spirituality which is the theme of the yoga of the Gita. From the Indian
point of view, all our people have to realise it today, there is
never any conflict between the two dimensions of science, namely
, apara and para. This is the Indian
approach to the subject of human education with a view to
ensuring total human fulfilment, individual and collective. This
is the rational strength and conviction, and contemporary
relevance, behind Swami Vivekananda’s ideas and ideals of
education and religion. These are bound to receive increasing
welcome and implementation in due course by thinking minds in
India and the rest of the world.
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