What are the salient features of Jeevan Vidya philosophy?
Jeevan Vidya is practically a new philosophy that was started by A. Nagaraj. It begins where science and spiritualism, by themselves have fallen short. Spiritualism is mystic and God-centric and the path is difficult and not necessarily replicable. Science obviously takes care of material needs, but not all needs. Jeevan Vidya is unlike spiritualism (not God-centric) and science (not material-centric), which puts the human being in the centre (human-centric). Jeevan Vidya stresses on two principles of education – – self-reliance (swawalamban) and human values (samajika). Education has to inculcate these two principles essentially for a just social order. What does your institution – Asha – aim at? Asha is a people’s organisation working for an education, which inculcates human values for a just society and promotes development of skills for self-reliance. Presently, Asha is running its programmes in Ballia, Lucknow and Kanpur and is interacting with a number of organisations in other p
