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Namah Incorporating Spirituality...

“Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws and patient-care innovative practices undertaken
from life but the conquest of life by the power of during the last two decades by the Sri
the spirit. It is to make of all our action a sacrifice Aurobindo Chair of Integral Studies, Sardar
to the master of our action and an expression Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat
of the greater self in man and of all life a Yoga. and by the Pramukhswami Medical College,
Bhaikaka University, Karamsad, Gujarat as
“This then is the message we shall constantly deliberate attempts to enhance awareness
utter and this the ideal that we shall put before about spirituality and imbue the same in
the young and rising India, a spiritual life that mainstream educational and healthcare
shall take up all human activities and avail to programmes. The practices described here
transfigure the world for the great age that is are more formal and have sizeable student
coming. India, she that has carried in herself involvement. The article does not contain
from of old the secret that can alone lead the many other educational activities which are
way in this great transformation of which the similar in their intent and even more consistent

present sandhya of the old yuga is the forerunner. in their pursuance.
“This must be her mission and service
to humanity, — as she discovered the inner
spiritual life for the individual, so now to discover
for the race its integral collective expression
and found for mankind its new spiritual and
communal order.

“Our first object shall be to declare this ideal,
insist on the spiritual change as the first necessity
and group together all who accept it and are
ready to strive sincerely to fulfil it: our second
shall be to build up not only an individual but
a communal life on this principle. The Sri Aurobindo Chair of Integral Studies, Sardar
Patel University is a pioneering chair in the
“An outer activity as well as an inner change is country, which has strived to incorporate
needed and it must be at oncsr the nation but Sri Aurobindo’s teachings on Integral
for the whole human people (5).” perspectives of life and education to the
academia. Pramukhswami Medical College
Sri Aurobindo, the prophet of nationalism and is the first self-financed medical college
the harbinger of the Supramental transformation in the state of Gujarat, which is committed
of the human race, has provided a Sunlit Path to to establishing high standards of medical
the youth of India to walk on for developing education and patient care, in accordance
a nation in consonance with the Truth of its with the highest standards of the medical
Being. profession.

This article describes some of the educational The incorporation of spirituality in mainstream

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