“Service of mankind is service to God”
By Er Taraprasad Mishra
Jajpur,Octo 21 : The term “Service of mankind is service to God” means that selfless service for the cause of humanity is as important as worshiping to God. Love of mankind is, in Vivekananda’s opinion, the worship of God. This is the gist of all worship is to be pure and to do well to others. A person who devotes his life for the betterment of the human race is loved by God.
If there is any God, He would rather want us to live not only for ourselves but for our fellowmen too. Great men knew this truth. Life to them was action. This is the service of others. A life lived for selfish gains, regardless of others needs, is worse than death.
A bird or a beast collects food for itself and its young ones. It is some kind of work no doubt, but it is not that kind of work that man is expected to do. He is the roof and crown of creation and so he is supposed to live a larger life by applying himself to the service of humanity. God is omnipresent. He would stand before us everywhere. He would stand by a man in the temple.
He will also stand by a man on the plough. As Rabindranath once said in one of his lyrics, God is with the farmer tilling his field, with the laborer laying the path. We should therefore spurn the age-old practice of searching for Him in the temple of bricks.
If God is in me, He is in others too, in the rich and the proud as in the lowly and the lost. To stand on the dust and perspire in the service of others is thus to be in service of God Himself, to worship God in the true sense of the term.
Now a days technological innovation had a great contribution to globalisation all aspect which change human life style. But this change left behind the values. Such as – As the erosion of family values very much seen in the urban families due to nuclear family. A child is a Resource in the society. If a child cannot adopt the values, there is no meaning of education.
So, it is said that human resource is westage.On the other approach our culture is actively involved in spiritual and ethical value, unless these values not achieved the education is not fulfilled his aims. In this regard this paper deals with the thoughts and view of Swami Vivekananda’s to develop human resource in respect of education and value.
The view of his education is not gather of information which will insert into mind of a child by force. It is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. “Arise ! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.”Swami Vivekananda was a great philosopher and reformer In Indian Education .He was a true follower of Ramkrishna Paramhansha and his Idealness .
He was also one of the contemporary Indian Philosophers who revolted against the imposition of British system of education in India . He criticised such education on the ground that it is not related to Indian’s culture and pointed out that it brings about an external change without any profound inner force . So he emphasis new ides such as – physical education , religious education , vocational education and woman education based on the Indian culture and the needs of the society.
Ashis mission was to strike a balance between the spirituality of the East and the materialism of the West .This great soul is known as a world teacher and a great educationist of the twenties century. The research in this field can be classified as quantitative and qualitative research.
According to the nature of the topic the investigator has used qualitative method. In this work Secondary Sources are used. And sources were taken from several books and journal about swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda says , “The end of all education , all training should be man – making.”Education aims at bringing about an all-round development in an individual.
It is the product of man’s thought and action. According to Vivekananda the following should be main aims of education. Education must provide self-knowledge, which brings material prosperity and freedom from the bondage of worldly existence.
A man can attain perfection and achieve the glory of life through self analysis and self insight .He says ,”Faith in our self and faith in God ….this is the secret of greatness.”Education must aim at this kind of knowledge of the self and at the creation of self –confidence and self –realization. Swamiji realize that fear is the main cause for all social and individual problem .
It is education which should remove this fear and make the citizens bold and brave to face the challenges of life. Swamiji says ,”If you want to find God , serve man .”He belives that it is not the God in symbol and images that we find and worship in temples.Education should teach the pupils that service of mankind is service to God.
According to Swami Vivekananda the major aim of education is the manifestation of perfection already present in a child . Every child is endowed with certain hidden powers which can be unveiled with the help of education . He said that through education , we should gradually receive the idea of universal brotherhood .so he always pleaded for the harmony and good relationship among all nations. The true aim of education is to look for unity in diversity .
He said that spiritual and material world is one but their distinction is an illusion. So education should enable man to find out unity in diversity. Swamiji also mentioned some aims of education i.e. character building, physical development, serving humanity, spirit of renunciation, religious development, vocational efficiency, intellectual development etc.
Man-Making education brings out the significance of the famous word said by Vivekananda at the Parliament of Religions held in 1893 at Chicago. These are Help, Assimilation, Harmony and Peace .So education should develops these qualities of man .
Vivekananda’s guru Sri Ramkrishna used to say that “Manush” needs to become “Man-Hush” that is a man needs to become a true man. He said, “Whose spiritual consciousness has been awakened.” Following his guru Vivekananda emphasised that the ideal of all education , all training should be this man making.
Swami Vivekananda emphasis to improve the conditions of the masses and he advocated mass education . The individual developments not a full development of our full nation, so he need to give education to the society or common people. He takes his mass education as an instrument to improve the individual as well as society.
He observed , “If we are to rise again ,we shall have to do it in the same way ,that is by spreading education among masses.” so he gave the prime importance to the education of the masses. The importance of mass education is also described by his speech. “I considered that the great national sin is the neglect of the masses ,and that is one of the cause of our downfall.
No amount of politics would be of any avail until the masses of India are once more well-educated, well-fed, and well-cared for.’’ He also gave importance on woman education as well as mass education. Values defined in organisational behaviour as the collective conceptions of what is considered good ,desirable and improper in a culture.
Values stands for the ideals we live for. They are the guiding principles of life which are conductive for all-round development .According to swami Vivekananda intellectuality is not the highest good . Morality and spirituality are the things for which we strive. So we need to make students as a good human resources.
They can decide what is right or wrong; what is good or evil ; what is justice or injustice. Values that we learnt from swami Vivekananda are describe below. He is a well educated person. He had a vast knowledge in arts , language , religion , philosophy as well as literature.
He doesn’t believe in collection of information .He says education should be man- making , life giving and character building .He says “Education is not the amount of information that we put into your brain and ransriot there , undigestc all your life ,we must have life building ,man making, character making and assimilation of ideas.
If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your Life and made them your life and character, you have more education and any man who has got by heart a whole library. For Vivekananda , religion is simple realization.
It is not just listening or becoming or simple acquiring knowledge on that worship of God must makes ones heart pure and it should make them do good to others . He believe that “ service to man is service to God.”He says “I am a Hindu .I am sitting in my own little Well and thinking that whole world is my little well.
The Christian sits in his little well and think that whole world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the whole world. “ For him integration is a power. If all the people of our country integrated with each other , this accumulation of power will make India a better nations. “All the wealth in the world can not help one little Indian village ,if the people are not taughtto help themselves.” so our work should be mainly educational both moral and intellectual.
He is a self made man of immense faith and right from his schooling had a good confidence level .” Have a faith that you are all, my brave lads , born to do great things ,let not the barks of puppies frighten you -no , not even the thunder bolts of heaven – but stand up a d work .” One must have the courage to move ahead and do his duties ,as fear will down even great ships so what is a man.
He is a man with obedience and hard work .He states “ No Centralization is possible Unless there is obedience to superiors .No great work can be done without this Centralization of individual forces…. Give up jealousy and conceit .”He believes that the secret of success is having infinite purity and infinite perseverance . One should bravely move ahead and take the leap without expecting success .
He says ,”Be steady . Avoid jealousy and selfishness . Be obedience and eternally faithful to the cause of truth , humanity and your country and you will move the world . Remember it is the person , the life , which is the secret of power , nothing else. Jealous is the band of all slave . It is the bane of our nation. Avoid this always.
Vivekananda has observed ,’What is the watch word of all ethical codes?.Not I , but thou.”And this ‘I ‘ is the outcome of the infinite inside that is trying manifest itself on the outside world .He says ,” This is Renunciation we shall have to get out of the difficulty by reversing the process by which got in ,and then morality and charity will begin .” The basis of all system rest upon the goodness of man .
No nations is great or good because parliament enacts certain laws ,but because it’s men are great and good .One must admit that law ,govt. Politics are phases that are not final anyway . There is a goal beyond them where law is not needed .Christ saw that the basis of not law , that morality and purity are the only strength.
