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An Ancient module for effective learning
(Svyasa, 2016-01-01) Vadiraja, K. S.
Each soul is a part of the ultimate divine. But divinity of each soul is covered by Maya. Maya means delusion. Maya is nothing but ignorance. Divinity is nothing but knowledge. Knowledge is covered by ignorance. Ignorance should be destroyed and ultimate knowledge should be realized. That is the real goal of each soul. That is called Moksha. Because knowledge is the real form of each being, every being tries to eradicate ignorance. Education helps in this regard. Education system differs from one region to another. In bharat, gurukula education system is adopted for gaining knowledge. Gurukula means, a big family where teachers and students live together. Students learn many things by watching and listening to teachers. And also students learn many things by doing many activities from dawn to dusk. The Vedas, vedangas, Upanishads are the part of curriculum. Westerns have school education system. It is limited time of learning process in a day. They started school education to teach three things. Viz. reading, writing and arithmetic. These are for livelihood. Gradually other subjects are added to this system and came into existence all over the world including bharata. The Taittiriyopanishad says, human body is made up of five sheaths. Those, Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya and Anandamaya. When these five sheaths are healthy, a person becomes healthy. It results in healthy society. Therefore holistic personality development is the goal of real education. This holistic personality development will be gained in the Gurukula education system. Only intellectual growth can be gained in the school education system. Personality should be, spiritually rooted, intellectually creative, emotionally pure, mentally sound, physically strong, individually vibrant, and socially productive.