Reviving the Authentic Indian Education System
Nithyananda Gurukul: Creating an Enlightened Generation
"The current system of education established by Macaulay and Max Muller in India is the 'non-involving narrative style' of teaching. The original Indian education system was not about continuously giving words, ideas, concepts, theories, or theologies. It was about awakening you to the right context - Enlightenment. The Indian Education System - the Gurukul - is more of a 'transmission' of the knowledge, rather than mere 'transfer' of knowledge. My Gurukul kids will not use their body as a 'PC' that merely processes information that is fed to it. They will function as the 'internet', accessing knowledge from the cosmic archives and having their own inventions and discoveries!" - Paramahamsa Nithyananda. (13).
What is Gurukul Education?
It is the original Indian Education System of Sanatana Hindu Dharma where students lived with enlightened masters from a tender age, learning the 64 vidyas - types of knowledge. Knowledge was transmitted thorugh the very bio-memory of the master. The children emerged as spiritually anchored geniouses who radiated siddhis (mystical powers) and were high-achievers and world leaders. Nithyananda Gurukul℠ is fas reviving the gurukul education in its entirety not only in India but around the world, spearheaded by living incarnation Paramahamsa Nithyanada. (14)
Ananda Yogam℠: Vedic Education Program
"I will make the modern youth into courageous enlightened beings, where they will know the purpose of their birth and life, where they will remove the flawed patterns of their life" - Paramahamsa Nithyananda. (17)
To immerse the young generation into the experience of Vedic life, Paramahamsa Nithyananda created the Ananda Yogam℠ program in 2003, a 3-month, 6-month, and 1-year free residential vedic education and lifestyle program in the energy field of the Ashram in Bangalore. Youth from across the world, who seek to explore and learn about the rich vedic tradition and the science of enlightenment are given free stay, food and medical care and taught the powerful yogic practices, vedic temple sciences and arts, vedic knowledge, vedic chants and more. They become free from all types of addicitons (drugs, alcohol, smoking etc.), depression and other psychological disorders. They become teachers (acaryas) of yoga, meditation and knowledge, living and spreading authentic Hinduism to the world.
Vedic Universities, Colleges and Research Institutes
"Our first priority is to create Vedic Education Insititutions. We need Universities creating Vedic Scholars. I will create huge universities teaching Vedic philosophies, creating Doctorates in different branches of Vedic philosophies for those who have the passion for Hinduism. There will be online Vedic courses for distance education" - Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
Works Cited
Nithyananda, Paramahamsa. Sarvajnapeetha: The All-Knowing Spiritual Seat. Bengaluru: Dhyanapeeta Charitable Trust, n.d. Print. (Pages, 13, 14, 17).