Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2017

Pioneer of integral Educational : SRI AURBINDO: A Critical View

Rinke Tyagi

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 “Education, proper to the Indian soul and need and temperament and culture that we are in quest of, not indeed something faithful merely to the past, but to the developing soul of India, to her future need, to the greatness of her coming–self creation, to her eternal spirit.” Sri Aurobindo’s (1956) concept of ‘education’ Sri Aurbindo Ghose advocated about the education which not only to meet the need of an individual but in accordance to the need of society, to the need of Nation and to the need of Humanity, which make one a cosmopolitan citizen. The real Aim of Education is to ing out the real man in oneself, to build the power of the human mind and spirit i.e. evoking of knowledge, character and culture, to enable the individual to establish a clear continuity between the past, present and future and to enable the individual to establish right relationship within him and outside–world.  He is not a fusion of philosophical– religious types, but an appearance of a new kind of thinker whose methods are of spiritual inquiry derived from the Indian tradition with a completely new frame of intellectual reference to modern science and the challenge of transcending through the conflict between religion and materialism, tradition and modernization. He shouldn’t be considered as a ‘Hindu thinker’ for; Hinduism sought only ‘eternal law,’ ‘SANATAN  DHARMA,’ which is indeed not an Indian monopoly but a universal theology. His spiritual inquiry was aimed at cleå the weaknesses of current thinking about conflicts between the spiritual quest and functional materialism which established a harmonious relationship between these two. His philosophy about the education summarised as Integral Education which indeed not only a system of Traditional Education amalgamated with western science, But which aims to empower an individual for the Journey of Divinity. Sri Aurbindo Coined the idea of Integral Education into two spheres Where first one aims to inculcate all the five aspects of the individual being, and Other aims an education not only for the evolution of the individual alone, but also of the nation and finally of the humanity. The ultimate aim of education is the evolution of total humanity.  

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Rinke Tyagi, Pioneer of integral Educational : SRI AURBINDO: A Critical View, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | Issue‾5 | May‾2017

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