Education has to enable all students to achieve at least a fraction of the synthesis of East and West, spirituality and science, contemplation and action. It is the science of spirituality, the supreme science that fosters in man ethical, aesthetic and
spiritual values, including the moral
values associated with pure science.
The harmony of all these values required the intrinsic harmony between science and religion. All such values emerge from out of the depths of the human spirit at a certain stage of human evolution and after the achievement of some measure of mastery of the environment by him; they do not emerge from
physical nature itself. It is folly, therefore, to believe, or to expect, that they will automatically result from industry or from technological manipulations of physical nature, and from the wealth resulting from such achievements.
It is thus obvious that, if the current
secular school and university
Education is high and higher education, the spiritual education, bearing wonderful fruits of character-strength and compassion, deep as the ocean and broad as the skies, and harmonising East and West, religion and science, the sacred and the secular, is the highest education into which the other two, to fulfil themselves, must lead a child.
Wisdom can accompany, and enliven and creatively stimulate, knowledge at any level – primary or secondary, under-graduate or post graduate. It is also equally clear that, without a little of that wisdom, knowledge at any of these levels can become, in the long run, not a blessing but a curse to oneself and to society, a breeding ground of pride, selfishness, exploitation and violence, on the one hand, and alienation, loneliness, and psychic breakdowns on the other. These have afflicted societies and civilisations in the past, and led them to decay and death.
As our own country also is absorbing the energies of this modern civilisation at a fast pace today and is already experiencing some distortions, we shall be wise if we open ourselves up also to the eternal message of science of man depth, and generate a fresh capital of our spiritual
energy resources, with a view to digesting, assimilation and transforming the physical and mental energy
resources of our highly technical age.
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