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SPIRITUAL EDUCATION IN TAGORE PHILOSOPHY
Authors: Prem Shankar Srivastava
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The paper deals with the spiritual education with special reference to the Tagore’s Naturalist
Phil
osophy in which Tagore’s life philosophy influence spiritual education. The paper also deals
with the Cardinal Principles of his educational philosophy based on Freedom, Creative self
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expression, and Active communion with nature and man which are the integ
ral part of spiritual
education. In this paper an attempt has been made to recognize, analyze, evaluate and critically
examine the dominant factors responsible for strengthening spiritual education in Tagore’s
philosophy. The paper concludes ‘Spiritual Edu
cation’ as “it is education which helps to fulfill
the potentialities of the individuals through the Doctrine of Mother Nature, Universal
Brotherhood, Freedom, Service, Co
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operation, Love, Sympathy, Wisdom, Peace and Harmony,
Truth, Tolerance, Self
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control
, Self
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Confidence, self
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expression, and Self
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Realization and to
prepare them to solve the everyday problems for life creatively and constructively in the new
situation of the socio
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psycho
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physical environment for attaining the highest values and ideas of
e
ducation, if the teachers enable to modify such kind of behavior patterns of individuals in the
lap of Nature,
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this is spiritual education.”