Necessity of 'Bharathiya' Education System in India

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Ncessity of 'Bharathiya' Education System in India

The purpose of education in any country is to create masses in the nation to create wealth in the nation, to keep making progress in research and development in the nation, to keep nation informed of the past achievements of the nation and to provide such type of education, which bring glory to the nation by making new achievements for the nation. Education should be such which raises the standard of living of most of the people of nation and also brings pride to the nation and individual persons. Education should impart the information of the past achievements of the nation, which create pride in the minds of people. The

present Indian education does not provide the information of the past achievements of this great nation. The type of education still provided in independent India after 58 years of independence is still same which was in taught in the British ruled India. The present education creates mental slavery and inferiority complex amongst Indians. Through this education system , the western culture, civilization, culture, manners, traditions, all kinds of festivals come to India. Vulgar festival like “Valentine’s Day” also has taken root in India due to wrong kind of education in India. In independent India, Sanskrit and other Indian languages have been totally neglected. English education and culture are dominating the Independent, but mentally slave nation India.

QUOTE” It was February 1835, a time when the British were striving to take control of the whole of India. Lord Macaulay, a historian and a politician, made a historical speech in the British Parliament, commonly referred to as The Minutes, which struck a blow at the centuries old system of Indian education. His words were to this effect :" I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.” Unquote.

(Macaulay, British Parliament, 1835 .)

In case of India, Muslim and British colonizers tried to destroy this ancient country’s, culture, civilization, values, identity as colonizers realized that as long as India stayed on it’s true heritage, it might not be possible for them to rule India. To keep India as a colony, British and western powers invented Aryan Invasion Theory. Due to their ruling

power, these western powers could convince lots of people for a long time about the validity of Aryan invasion theory, but now all the researchers say that Aryan invasion was fabricated theory, is false and must be discarded. This discarded Aryan invasion theory is still taught in schools and colleges of independent India.

All countries, which were made colonies lost their culture, religion, language, civilization and identity while India retained it’s, culture and civilization. The divine intervention of Lord Sri Krishna has time and again appeared in various forms to re-establish the intrinsic strength of ‘Sanatana Dharma’, and this vital factor has saved the Vedic Religion from

destruction, while aggressors tried their utmost to destroy the religion.

Most of the English media of India has been bought by multi-national companies and is run by pseudo-secular people. They keep downgrading the ethics of Sanatana Dharma.

Along with pseudo-secular people, English media persons, Atheists, even certain educated followers of Vedic Dharma keep denigrating Sanatana Dharma. Many educated vedic followers are mentally slave people and see all things with eyes of mental slavery or slavery viewpoint .

The day educated people discard their mental slavery and see Sanatana Dharma with open eyes and views, India would dominate the world.

As individuals go up and down in life, so nations go up and down. Hopefully the upward of Indian swing might start soon in near future.

Nostradamus and many astrologers have predicted that all religions based on one book or one person would perish which is likely to be within the next one decade. According to them, only Sanatana Dharma and to some extent Jew religion would survive. If we do not take into account astrology, just take into account scientific principles ; even then mainly Sanatana Dharma would survive. One person based religions are basically man based. Man made things never last forever. One day

they have to break down or die one day. Only things made by nature or God last for ever. One book based religions are dogmatic which have rigid instructions to do this or that thing. These religions have no flexibility.

There are no dogmatic principles in Sanatana Dharma. This religion keeps changing with changing time and changing circumstances, as it is a dynamic religion. Whenever it becomes moribund, then some event takes place or some person comes who revives the vedic religion.

India was incredibly unlucky in the leadership she received in the immediate aftermath of independence. Jawahar Lal Nehru was a man with little experience of administration even at the purely municipal level, a rich man’s only son who had never been confronted with the need to earn a living leave alone to provide for a family. In fact, the root of many – some would say most - of the problems India face today, are due to decisions made by our first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. Forty two years after his death, it is hard to think of a handful of policies inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru that would meet with acclaim today.

Rulers like Nehru were learned men of course, but they learned in the Western style and McCauley education system, which has done a thorough job on him. McCauley had wanted, “ We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.

It is disgraceful that more than 58 years after the British left, the best schools and colleges in India are still those that teach Western culture. At present situation is such that the average Indian school child still knows a lot about Western culture and values but nothing notable about the rich Indian culture. The result is that the average Indian child grows up slightly ashamed of his own culture and more than slightly in awe of anything that comes from the West.

Indian government should examine school and college curricula with the idea of introducing a national element. It is farcical that Indian children study comparative literatures of the world without being able to read decent translations of modern writing in Indian languages. Farcical that they should discover Yoga only when it comes back via America and really shameful that it is almost impossible these days to find anyone who can read and write Sanskrit. The situation is so bad that to

understand our own precious ancient texts we might eventually need to import scholars from American universities!!!.

Let the learned people of India come with the basic details and finalize the path to follow so the coming generation may come up with better understanding of our ancient values and achievements and their relation to present conditions. The Indianization of education system of independent India is long overdue.

(excerpts)” While it is correct that Sanatana Dharma studies have been colonized and distorted by many who are not practitioners and therefore unable to understand the meaning and depth of the Vedic tradition(s), it is regressive to posit that this can only be corrected by "indigenizing" Vedic Studies by returning them to India .

The reason that Buddhism has fared so much better than Vedic traditions in the contemporary Western Academy and mainstream media internationally is that Buddha dharma has had to continually reinvent itself and in the process continually refine its presentation of conceptual underpinnings. This ability to co-opt non-Asians to dharmic perspectives has proved at least more helpful than the Vedic position of fortress building on the basis of an ethnic identity and conflation with a specific geographic and cultural sphere.

What this does is send the message that Vedic traditions have nothing significant to say to the rest of humanity because the ultimate conceptual foundation of Indian thought and practice is so tied in with place and culture that to separate it from its geographic and social roots is to loose its essence.

This is how living cultures and living ways of thought become stultified and arid--it is the way of death, not the way to revivification.

It is disgusting to hear time and again that Sanatana Dharma is a way of life--so is transvestitism! It is far more significant than that---it is a way of thought; a way of apprehending the nature of reality. It cannot be a way of understanding all of reality if it is inevitably mired in a framework that begins and ends with India. Vedic

followers would not have to engage in these sorts of discussions . However, the distortion of Vedic terms and the misrepresentation of Santana Dharma’s concepts were shared by many outside of India. The question is can Sanatana Dharma redefine its relevance and refine its tools in ways that persons regardless of ethnicity could adopt with allegience--that is to say, do Vedic followers understand their prescribed duties to protect Sanatana dharma ?

Sri Krishnaya Namah!!!

 

Jayamma

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