Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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TULSĪ PRAJÑA as the measure of human affairs). Gandhism did espouse pragmatism but of a different genre, distancing itself from the instrumentalism of Pierce, James and John Dewey.
In conclusion it is submitted that what has been attempted is more of dipping a stick' here and there, without fathoming the fuller profundity of import of the selectively mentioned thought forms. All along, the guiding principle followed here is the conviction that all these positions have infused some strength and effected expansion of the social ethos cutting across all barriers of time and place.
In this age, it is imperative for educationists and educators, the world over. to make full use of the heritage of mankind — the kaleidoscope of the world views (available in the form of various philosophies) to arrive at a framework for seasoning knowledge with virtue, that is, building inspiring edifices for qualitative existence. Setting aside the strident dogmas and troubled lovalties, it is in the region of possibility, that mankind achieves an integrated view of reality catapulting man to higher levels of consciousness as visualised by the visionary Sri Aurobindo.
The good and the virtuous, need no ruberic under which they have to function. For putting persons in search of truth is far more engaging and ennobling them putting them in possession of the same.
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