QUOTES OF SWAMI DAYANANDA SARASWATI ON LIFE
A person who consumes the least and contributes most is a learned person, for in giving lies the self-growth
Give the world the best you have, the best will come back to you
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
You want to change others so that you can be free. But it never works that way way. Accept others and you are free.
~ Swami Dayananda Saraswati
GURUKULAM: AN ACROSTIC
G: Guru-disciple system of guided learning for co-construction of knowledge about the spiritual self and existing disciplinary knowledge areas
U: Use of peeragogy and heutagogy under guru's tutelage with purity of means and processes of learning in non-competitive social environment
R: Reverence for one-another as parts of the same formless One Absolute Supreme Soul and sources of knowledge
U: Unfolding higher order thinking skills and awakening of higher levels of consciousness through yoga and meditative devices such as attentiveness, concentration, self-reflection, contemplation, intuitiveness, and continual self-improvement
K: Kinfolk or Kula-feel at the place of learning by treating teachers, parents and learners as extended family supporting one-another as community of learners
U: Upanishadic culture of learning by treating knowledge construction as Innate, Timeless, Limitless, Divine process with control on worldly physical-sesual gratifications till the age of 25 years
L: Learning to live a self-disciplined simple life emphasised through initiation ceremony as shishya and homa/havana-tradition to make learning a life-long process with humility, detachment or ego-freedom
A: Arya Samaj tried to revive Gurukala system in modern context with emphasis on Vedanta philosophy of life along with learning various prescribed curricula by treating a classroom as Guru's Ashram and teacher as content- and method-master with emphasis of universal achievement by students
M: Multi-modal and multi-channel learning in Guru-Disciple tradition with Vedanta-philosophical foundation of education - mindful and soulful learning - is the key to quality Gurukulum with ideals of Brahmacharya till the age of 25 years
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