Education in India
India's Gift to the World
The one country in the world which has had the knowledge of this greater whole- being, whole-knowledge and whole-power is India.
Through her various systems of Yoga – a systematized method of accelerated psychological self-development – she blue-printed and mapped the pathways of the inner worlds, creating a high-road that anyone can tread.
In this great age of change, it is she alone if she wills, who can be the physician for the malady that afflicts not only herself but all humanity. But to offer meaningful solutions she has herself to rediscover, and redefine in the light of the modern world, this inner knowledge for it lies locked in her soul-spaces, and secret retreats.
And most importantly she must master the material domains that she neglected for so many centuries ⎯ and do so if possible in the rhythms of her own particular genius.
We may equally return to the Upanishadic question: Is there something, knowing which, everything can be known?
The question gains enormous importance given the present-day complexities of the information-age world where one can spend one’s whole life merely ‘keeping up’ with the knowledge explosion.
“India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being herself and following the
law of her own nature.
This does not mean, as some narrowly and blindly suppose,
the rejection of everything new that comes to us in the stream of Time or happens to have been first developed or powerfully expressed by the West.
Such an attitude would be intellectually absurd, physically impossible and above all unspiritual; true spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development It means simply to keep our center, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create …”
~ Sri Aurobindo
“[India] can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solution is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in the renaissance which is coming upon her, is the question of her destiny.”
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance of India