Muni Udit Kumar
A Supplement to Formal Education System
Acharya Mahapragya has played a very important role in developing the System of Education in our Country. He believes that the main intention of Education should be the overall development of Personality and to develop the Human Personality with Moral Values and good Character. He has given a detailed curriculum in 'Jeevan Vigyan'. It brings about behavioral and attitudinal changes in the students.
The training courses and practices enunciated by Acharya Mahapragya, which a student has to undergo, results in crucial bio-chemical and bio-electrical changes which ultimately transform him. Acharya Mahapragya emphasizes that a student must be made to go through various exercises and experiments and to periodically repeat them in order to kindly his/her desire to lead a Value Oriented Life. He says that with intellectual development through higher education, a person does not automatically develop morally, emotionally and spiritually. Proper Emotional Development is necessary whereby feelings like love, compassion, tolerance, patience, contentment etc. are developed in a human being. In this context, Acharya Mahapragya has formulated the concept of'Jeevan Vigyan' as a panacea for solving this universal problem.
The courses as designed and suggested by Acharya Shri under the name Jeevan Vigyan/ Science of Living are now being included in the syllabus for students in a number of states like Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi and Bihar.
The main objective of the Science of Living is three fold. First, to build such a Healthy Personality, which could maintain equilibrium in its physical, mental, emotional and social health. Second, to build such a new society which is free from violence, exploitation and immortality. Third to build such a new generation which has a Spiritual-cum-Scientific Personality.'
Apart from formal inclusion of this syllabus in formal study programmes, hundreds of camps have been organized to train people in this curriculum to meet the set forth objective of overall development of personality.
