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VOL. 2, ISSUE 3 (2015)
Dr. Annie Besant's views on spiritual education
Authors
Prem Shankar Srivastava
Abstract
The paper deals with the spiritual education with special reference to Dr. Annie Besant’s views in which her life and social philosophy as well as Theosophical philosophy influence spiritual education. The paper also deals with her theosophical philosophy based on the principles of ‘The Unity of God’ and of ‘The Universal Brotherhood’ which are the integral part of spiritual education. In this paper an attempt has been made to recognize, comprehend, find out, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and critically examine the dominant factors responsible for strengthening spiritual education regarding Dr. Annie Besant’s views. The paper concludes ‘Spiritual Education’ as “it is education which helps to fulfill the inherent capacity of the individuals through the Theosophical Idea of Education based on the Unity of God (Universal Source of all existence) and Universal Brotherhood, Self-control, Self-analysis, Self-respect, Control of mind, self-realization, self-interview, spiritual policy, Love and Sympathy, Service, Freedom, God- realization Patience, Peace and Tolerance and to prepare them to solve the everyday problems for life creatively and constructively in the new situation of the socio-psycho-physical environment for attaining the highest knowledge and wisdom, if the teachers enable to modify such kind of behavior patterns of individuals, - this is spiritual education.”
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Pages:676-679
How to cite this article:
Prem Shankar Srivastava "Dr. Annie Besant's views on spiritual education". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 676-679
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