Spiritual Education in Schools

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Kishore Ram, Shri Hrushikesh and Kum. Purnima asked: Is it not necessary to introduce spiritual education in the schools at least in the present times?]

Swami replied:- There are two stages regarding the subject of God:- (i) Pravrutti or Worldly life. (ii) Nivrutti or Spiritual life. For worldly life, the knowledge of pravrutti is sufficient, which means that the omnipotent God exists and punishes the sinner even if he/she escapes the police and courts. This much knowledge about God is sufficient to develop in-built-resistance towards sin in the minds of human beings, which controls the sin at the root level itself. The controlling agencies fail because the agencies themselves have become corrupt. Hence, the Veda says the fundamental that the omnipotent God exists (astiityevopalabdhavyah). If a female employee wants to maintain only the basic employer-employee relationship with the director of the office, a little knowledge about the officer is sufficient. The little knowledge will be like that the employee should come to office at 10.00 am and should leave at 05.00 pm and that if the employee does good work, promotions will be given while the employee doing wrong things will be punished. More than this, the other personal knowledge of the officer is not necessary. Similarly, every soul is an employee in this world-office and the officer is God. There is no choice for the employee to choose the job. The soul shall follow the rules and regulations of ethics, violating which the soul shall be punished in the hell and if the soul is following rules and doing good works, promotions will be given by sending the soul to heaven. No more personal knowledge of God than this is necessary for a soul following pravrutti.

If the female employee is impressed by the officer and wants to marry him, the above information of the officer is not sufficient. The total information of his behavior shall be known before developing a special permanent bond with God. This is nivrutti or spiritual life, which is vast subject, called Spiritual knowledge or philosophy.

The ancient kings were very wise in promoting spiritual education in the first place in the education system. Due to spiritual education, the soul develops an in-built self-resistance towards sin so that the soul never tries to escape the punishment through crooked ways. The present governments have given total place for professional education only and gave zero place for spiritual education. The present citizen is not aware of the existence of God because the citizen never studied the entire logic that establishes the existence of omnipotent God. The citizen shall be aware of miracles projected in this world by God, which are unimaginable events proving the existence of unimaginable omnipotent God with unimaginable powers to punish a sinner at any cost. The citizen simply hears that God exists, which is not sufficient to make the citizen strongly believe (faith) in the existence of God. In the ancient days, due to in-built resistance towards sin, there were no courts and no police stations. In a kingdom only one court existed with four judges and the king is the executive authority of the judicial bench. Since there were no cases, the king and judges were spending time in observing dances or other exhibitions of fine arts like poetry, music etc., in the court.

Today, even though there are uncountable number of courts and police stations, the number of cases are infinite. Many a time, the few disposed cases were ending with unjust judgement due to corruption and influence because there is no fear for sin since there is no fear for God and His existence is always doubted. The present governments are unable to control the sin in spite of so many number of controlling agencies. The present government thinks that ancient people wasted time and money unnecessarily in the subject of God! But this analysis proves that ancient kings were very wise and the present rulers are totally ignorant of the clue of the smooth administration helped by in-built-resistance towards sin. In the ancient education system, in every degree, the main subject is Spiritual Knowledge and the ancillary subjects are technologies of professional education. What is the use of materialistic development without ethics in the society? Lack of ethics will lead to chaos in the society before which even the materialistic development to the climax becomes useless.

The maximum and minimum expectation of God about the human being created by Him is that it should not harm and do injustice to any fellow living being, which may be a human being or an animal or a bird or even a harmless insect. Plant is a living being, but has no awareness (nervous system) and hence, is not a full living being, which must have both respiration as well as nervous system (awareness). Except this minimum and maximum expectation, God never wanted anybody to worship Him. All these worships and various lines of devotion are developed by the devoted human beings only and God has no connection with these temples, worships and devotional procedures. God is not like a politician, who spends a lot in getting his flexi erected and then say to public that the flexi was erected by his fans in spite of his resistance! Therefore, pravrutti (worldly life) alone is the essence of His preaching to humanity. When the devotees developed nivrutti to have a special personal bond with God, the subject of nivrutti is developed. One may be a climax devotee of God in nivrutti (spiritual life), he/she will be severely punished by God for his/her failures in pravrutti, if committed. All the devoted demons like Raavana etc., are the examples of this concept. The female employee trying to marry the owner of the office shall not do corruption in the office. When the owner comes to know about it, he will refuse her proposal doubting her to do the same corruption in his house after marriage! The owner will also punish her by expelling her from the office. Pravrutti is mandatory whereas nivrutti is optional.

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