Our children must be taught the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in schools to absorb the essentials of the national spiritual culture, its age old heritage whose rightful legatees they are, so that they may grow up into illumined citizens and seminal beings as their ancestors, and, why only so, into individuals as broad as the heavens and as luminous as the stars that light up the darkened night sky. I merely echo the words of Swami Vivekananda in this regard.
It is in childhood when the mind is soft and pliable that these noble epics ought to be impressed upon their absorbing selves so that their best elements be assimilated into their beings and they evolve into spiritual titans with patriotic feeling and universal outlook blended fine into their synthetic selves.
This is the bold step ahead for the government to take in the near future. This will be the correct measure adopted in the realm of child resource development. No amount of political opposition should detract the government from the course.
This nation's heritage is essentially Hindu and till it is recognised and accordingly implemented, it will not fulfil its promise, actualise its potential. But before official initiative in this regard is seen, let us not idly await developments but let us put our selves to the rolling of this Wheel of Dharma (Dharma Chakra Pravartana) through individual and organisational collective effort. May our ancestors bless us in this noble endeavour !
Written by Sugata Bose
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