Paper Title: RELEVENCE OF SWAMAI VIVEKANANDA’S SPRITUAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY WEST BENGAL
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Swami Vivekananda was one of the towering religious and social reformers in colonial Bengal. He was born in the second half of nineteen century when Bengal witnessed the second phase of renaissance. His vision was to bring back the enlightment of ancient Indian culture and universal religion of mankind. As a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Dev, Swami Vivekananda visited large part of the country and got firsthand experience of poverty and illiteracy of contemporary India. He envisaged a self-less and devoted youth community for the freedom of mother India. His writing and vision were not only confined to spiritual salvation, he also extensively wrote on education. Born in an English educated middle class Bengali family, swamiji broadly studied both Indian and Western history, religion and philosophy. His arduous journey for the quest of universal truth and God did not prevent him to promote basic and moral education for the successive generation of Bengal. His advocacy of spiritual education was intending to inculcate moral and self less service to the mankind. Though the people of Bengal are basically spiritual, the western education introduce in the first half of nineteen century by the colonial administration, totally ignored it. The enduring material education introduce by the colonial ruler failed to inject moral and spiritual education to the pupils. Swamiji inclusively opposed material education in his difference books and articles. The key concept of swamiji’s education was expression of divinity. His preaching still has clear vision of universal brotherhood and socio-religious harmony. His advocacy of spirituality in day to day learning is even significant in contemporary education system of west Bengal. The article seeks to analyse the Role of spiritual education of Swami Vivekananda in successive education policy and curriculum of post colonial West Bengal.
Keywords:Spiritual education, colonial and post-colonial, moral and self- less education.
DOI Link – https://doi.org/10.63431/AIJITR/3.I.2026.161-165
Review By – Dr. Amit Adhikari and Dr. Chandan Mandal