Now, a gurukul approach to learning
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An attempt is on in the state to propagate alternative education, styled as Gurukul system, that’s largely free of the trappings of the popular forms of learning. And, as of now, it is done at the weekends here.
“It is high time alternative education is taken up seriously in a creative and innovative way where life-saving wisdom is passed on to people when life has become so fast-paced,” said Swami Chidananda from the scenic locales of ‘Sala Gramam’ where the School of Bhagavadgita is located – at Kundamankadavu in the city.
It was a chance encounter with Chinmaya Mission in 1987 that changed the life of Chidananda forever. He would otherwise have been, he says, an IIT Chennai electrical engineer. Now, at 55, Swami Chidananda is based in Varanasi, and as the director of Krishnamurti Foundation of India, is on a mission to propagate the Gurukul system.
The weekend Gurukul at ‘Sala Gramam’ teaches 7-17 aged students on Indology, art, culture, games, trekking and language skills in Malayalam, Sanskrit and English. The course will be of four-month duration with 40 students each in two batches. The idea is to inculcate leadership qualities in them apart from following a normal curricula.
Swami Chidananda originally belongs to Kundapura near Mangalore. Having served Chinmaya mission for 16 years, during which he taught philosophy and Vedanta in India and the US, he says that when people are after material pursuits, they are losing the human values.
Swami Chidananda has come here for the first time and will be giving talks on a number of spiritual and management topics – especially on how a leader can evolve in to a good human being.
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