Issue No. 128 • June 23, 2002
Editor: Mr. Virendra Pandurang Marathe
 
 
Articles

Need For Spirituality

Practical Guidance

Clarification
of Doubts


Children's Corner

Activities Worldwide

Religious Festivals

Implied Meanings

Spiritual Experiences

Science of Spirituality


Experiment of the Subtle Dimension


Saints' Quotes


Readers' View

 





Need For Spirituality
Spiritual education and actual practice for
spiritual transformation from 'i' into 'I'


    New Delhi, India. Recently, the Times Foundation organized an interactive session of distinguished persons, industrialists and seers of different religions. In this session, an appeal was made that India should spread the message of spiritualism, peace and piety across the world to make it a better place to live in. To begin with, it asked that people in India should be exposed to spiritual education, right up to the university level. The Chairperson, Mrs. Indu Jain, proposed that the idea be called "i-I" - from the "modest individual to Infinity". The Union human resources minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, welcomed the appeal, seeing no conflict between Spirituality and science, and pointed out that the UNESCO had recognized the need to promote spiritual education in schools and colleges to meet the challenges of modern-day living. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry chief Lodha and entrepreneur Ashok Chauhan, who echoed these sentiments, did not see any contradiction between business and Spirituality either. Seer, Sri Ravishankar expressed that there should be no hesitation in teaching Spirituality by Indian universities when the same, only in a different form, was taught as 'Indology' by universities across the world. He lamented the "ignorance" among Indians by and large, of their spiritual heritage. Drawing a contrast to this phenomenon, he welcomed the initiative taken by the Times Foundation.


 

    The effort to include Spirituality in formal education is laudable for the awareness it would create about Spirituality! Since Spirituality is a science of experience, formal study of Spirituality, only when combined with regular spiritual practice would yield the spiritual transformation from "i" to "I".
    Unlike worldly education, whose success is bound by the time factor and external authority, success in Spirituality is beyond gross restrictions as these and dependent mainly on one's intense motivation for spiritual progress. Further, Spirituality being the all-encompassing Science of the Soul, encompasses all spheres of life and thus, dictates the success of our worldly academic efforts. Thus, anyone desirous of all-round progress need not wait for the materialization of such ideas as mentioned above to commence spiritual practice and derive its profound benefits.

- Editor.





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