SWAMIJI'S DREAM ... 1

SWAMIJI'S DREAM ... 1

Swamiji wanted national education to be the harmonic combination of Vedānta and science. I exhort the Ramakrishna Mission to promote original research by starting genuine scientific institutions like the

1) TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH (MUMBAI)

2) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE (BENGALURU)

3) INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE CULTIVATION OF SCIENCE (JADAVPUR, KOLKATA)

4) THE BOSE INSTITUTE (KOLKATA)

5) THE SAHA INSTITUTE (KOLKATA)

Also, the Ramakrishna Mission must open Vedic Universities for the study of Sanskrit, Prākrit, Pāli and all Sanātan scriptures and scriptures of the non-Vedic but Indic schools of thought like the Buddhist and the Jain. 

Swamiji had also desired that Indians should rewrite their own history along their own scientifically trained understanding so that distorted European versions did not hide from us our glorious historical heritage and freed us from our slavish acceptance of biased European narratives which deprived us of feeling pride in ourselves. Here I exhort the Ramakrishna Mission to building an institution devoted to the discovery and rewriting of our true history. 

Written by Sugata Bose