"What is poverty? The rich man without opportunity is a poor man.

Those poor, farmers and labourers are

working hard but not earning enough. Still, their respect for the country is intact. Poor people are a
national asset. We need to connect poor and backward with ndia!s economy. Today ndia is developing
fast. We can say with pride that our economy is on solid ground. "ur elders had laid the foundation of it.
Today, ndia is surging ahead with the help of youth power# ". $ahul %andhi
&nion 'inister of Science ( Technology )apil Sibal and Sam Pitroda, *hairman, +ational )nowledge
*ommission, sought to underline the fact that ndia was poised to become an education destination. They
talked of ,knowledge economy- at Pravasi .haratiya /ivas on Tuesday at +ew /elhi.
VALUES IN EDUCATION secularism Hinduism
PROPRIETY & SANCTITY (JNANA IS SACRED
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
SCHOOLS & COLLE!ES
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CA$A STUDIES
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PRACTICAL VEDANTA
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature,
external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by
one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or
rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
You cannot believe in od until you believe in yourself.
You have to grow from the inside out. !one can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is
no other teacher but your own soul.
The goal of mankind is knowledge. . . . !ow this knowledge is inherent in man. !o knowledge
comes from outside" it is all inside. #hat we say a man $knows,$ should, in strict psychological
language, be what he $discovers$ or $unveils$% what man $learns$ is really what he discovers
by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
&t is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. 'ur thought make things
beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. (earn to see
things in the proper light. )irst, believe in this world -- that there is meaning behind everything.
Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. &f you see something evil, think that you
do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves*
There is nothing beyond od, and the sense en+oyments are simply something through which we
are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
That man who is disturbed by nothing material has reached immortality.
Desire, ignorance, and ine,uality-this is the trinity of bondage.
o on saying, .& am free./ !ever mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, .& am
bound./ Dehypnoti0e the whole thing.
&f you think that you are bound, you remain bound% you make your own bondage. &f you know
that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. )reedom
is the goal of all nature.
&f you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. (ife and death are only different
expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints% they are the falling and the
rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
1arma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. &f we can bring ourselves down by our karma,
surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.
2urity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.
3o long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. 4 perfect, free
being cannot have any desire.
#hen we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood
or mankind, and not before.
The essence of 5edanta is that there is but one 6eing and that every soul is that 6eing in full, not
a part of that 6eing.
The 5edanta teaches that !irvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for
death to reach it. !irvana is the reali0ation of the 3elf% and after having once known that, if only
for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality.
The 5edanta recogni0es no sin it only recogni0es error. 4nd the greatest error, says the 5edanta
is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no
power and you cannot do this and that.
The whole universe is one. There is only one 3elf in the universe, only 'ne Existence.
This earth is higher than all the heavens% this is the greatest school in the universe.
3ectarianism, bigotry, and it7s horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this
beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with
human blood, destroyed civili0ation, and sent whole nations to despair. 8ad it not been for these
horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.
#omen will work out their destinies-much better, too, than men can ever do for them. 4ll the
mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.
ive me few men and women who are pure and selfless and & shall shake the world.
4rise, 4wake and 3top not till the oal is 9eached.
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