In August 1965 an education commission of the Government of India visited
the Ashram to evaluate the ideals and educational methods of the Centre of
Education. At that time a group of teachers submitted the following questions
to the Mother.
Q: In view of the present and future of national
and international living, what is it that India should aim at in education?
A: The
Mother: Prepare her children for the rejection of
falsehood and the manifestation of Truth.
Q: By what steps could the country proceed to
realize this high aim? How can a beginning in that direction be made?
A: The
Mother: Make matter ready to manifest the Spirit.
Q: What is India’s true genius and what is her
destiny?
A: The
Mother: To teach to the world that matter is false
and impotent unless it becomes the manifestation of the Spirit.
Q: How does the Mother view the progress of Science
and Technology in India? What contribution can it make to the growth of the
Spirit in man?
A: The
Mother: Its only use is to make the material basis
stronger, completer and more effective for the manifestation of the Spirit.
Q: The Country feels much concerned about national
unity. What is the Mother’s vision of things? How will India do her duty by
herself and by the world?
A: The
Mother: The unity of all the nations is the
compelling future of the world. But for the unity of all nations to be
possible, each nation must first realize its own unity.
Q: The language problem harasses India a good deal.
What would be our correct attitude in this matter?
A: The
Mother: Unity must be a living fact and not the
imposition of an arbitrary rule. When India will be one, she will have
spontaneously a language understood by all.
Q: Education has normally become literacy and a
social status. Is it not an unhealthy trend? But how to give education its
inner worth and intrinsic enjoyability?
A: The
Mother: Get out of conventions and insist on the
growth of the soul.
Q: What illusions and delusions is our education
today beset with? How could we possibly keep clear of them?
A: The
Mother: a)The almost
exclusive importance given to success, career and money.
b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit
and the growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being.
(‘All
India Magazine’ June 2001, “The Right Object of Education And India’s National
Education”, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry)
"The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of creedal statement, but fruits of the soul’s inner experience." - Sri Aurobindo
"The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of creedal statement, but fruits of the soul’s inner experience." - Sri Aurobindo
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