yÁ vim yÁ uk d t i a v y Á e s Á Neohumanist Education n a a l n u d k a u m ur Árga g Newsletter of the Global Neohumanist Education Network Issue 52 - July 2021 Commemorating Centenary of Shrii PR Sarkar New Gurukula Primary School Chitmu Village, Gopal Ananda Nagar, story page 39 Gurukula Network 146 Honness Lane Ithaca, New York 14850 USA “Real education leads to a pervasive sense of love and compassion fo al creation” Expanding the Heart, Freeing the Mind, Serving for a Just and Sustainable World NEOHUMANIST EDUCATION Gurukula Network Universal Love and Values Holistic Development Newsletter and Journal of Astaunga Yoga Neohumanist Schools and Institutes Ecological and Social Consciousness Gurukula Network is published by the Academic, Practical and Personal Skills Global Liaison Office of the Knowledge of Self and World Applied for Universal Global Neohumanist Education Network Welfare Joyful Learning through the Arts Two yearly issues, January and July, serve as a Culturally Sensitive and Inclusive Approach means of communication for Neohumanist Integrated Curriculum projects around the world. Exemplary Role of the Educators It is the spirit of Gurukula Network to encourage a free sharing of ideas and to Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar inspired the establishment of the stimulate discussion on educational and global global network of Neohumanist schools and institutions. In 1990 issues facing our world. All articles express the he founded Ananda Marga Gurukula as the Board of Education views of the author. for Neohumanist schools and institutes around the world. Gurukula Network is open to any and all NHE related projects and faculties. VISION of ANANDA MARGA GURUKULA Please send submissions to: <[email protected]> The Sanskrit word "Gurukula" (pronounced gurukul) has the following etymology: Gu: darkness; ru: dispeller; kula: an Editor institution. Gurukula is an institution which helps students Arete Brim dispel the darkness of the mind and leads to total emancipation of the individual and society at large. 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Shambhushivananda Avt., Kulapati <[email protected]> Sa’ vidya’ ya’ vimuktaye Education is that which liberates 2 Issue 52 Gurukula Network July 2021 Commemorating the Centenary of Shrii P.R. Sarkar 4 Renaissance in All the Strata of Life - by Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar 6 The Call for a Global New Renaissance: Commemorating the Centenary of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - by Acarya Shambhushivananda Avadhuta 8 Shrii P.R. Sarkar Centenary Celebration 9 Electronic Edition of the Works of P. R. Sarkar 10 The Importance of Coordinated Cooperation - by Didi Ananda Sadhana 11 The Posthuman Era - by Dr. Kathleen Kesson 14 Cultivating Neohumanist Awakened Conscience in the Modern Wild West Mediascape by Didi Ananda Devapriya 18 Challenges for Youth Part 3: Democracy in Peril - by Dr. Ed McKenna Adult Education Institutions, Courses and Conferences 20 Ananda Marga Gurukula at Anandanagar Update 21 Ananda Marga Gurukula Women’s College Update - Uma Nivas, Anandanagar 22 Juei-Ai Center, Taichung, Taiwan 23 Turbomandala - Where dynamism joins the sublime - by Michela Urbani 24 Neohumanist College of Asheville Opens Its Doors, Summer of 2021 by Ellen Landau 25 ÁMIA – Ánanda Márga International Academy, Singapore - by Dada Premamayananda 27 Reflections on Neohumanist Solutions for a World in Crisis – by Dr. Marcus Bussey Pre-K to 12 Teaching Methods and Research 30 Some Hints on Education – by Shrii P. R. Sarkar 31 Science in Neohumanist Schools - by Rutger Tamminga 34 The Subtlety of the Parent/Child Relationship: A Neohumanist Parents’ Perspective by Sofi Sonalii Wallin Steen 35 The Need for a Neohumanist Vision in Research and Pedagogical Practice by Alexia Martinelli Pre-K to 12 Neohumanist Projects in Focus 36 Sunrise Thornbury, Melbourne, Australia by Didi Ananda Nirupama 39 New Gurukula Primary School Chitmu Village Gopal Ananda Nagar, India 40 Overcoming All Obstacles: The long road to accreditation Gradinita Rasarit Neohumanist Kindergarten, Romania by Didi Ananda Devapriya Global News 42 Hong Kong, Berlin, New York, Manila, Nairobi, and Delhi Sectors 100 Petal Lotus from the cover of “Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti: 100 Facets of His Life, Mission 47 Gurukula Global Contacts and Teachings” – see page 8 “Building anything on humanistic lines requires a foundation of real love for humanity. A truly benevolent society will never come into being under the leadership of those who are solely concerned with profit and loss. Where love is paramount, the question of personal loss or gain does not arise. The basic ingredient for building a healthy society is simply love.” ~ Shrii P. R. Sarkar 3 Renaissance in All the Strata of Life1 By Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar The real meaning of the word “renaissance” is reawakening. That is, humanity was sleeping, and now it must wake up from that cimmerian slumber and do something in all the spheres of life, in all the strata of existence. There are three important strata in life: the physical stratum, the psychic stratum and the spiritual stratum. In the physical stratum, there are many strata: say, scientific achievement, social progress, political life, economic life, culture life. People often say that this twentieth century is the century of science. No, it is not the truth. Human life has been associated with science from the prehistoric era, from the very birth of humanity on this earth about one million years ago, and not only in this twentieth century. And as long as there will be a single human being, there will be an age of science. Nowadays science means creating new weapons – strengthening the hands of warmongers; but the spirit of science should not be like this, and at the start, in the primordial phase of human life, it was not so. Yes, there is necessity of weapons – weapons not for strengthening the hands of warmongers, but for providing security for good ideas, good thoughts and good persons. Science should be just like art: science for service and beatitude. Art for service and beatitude, I said; and now I say, science is also for service and beatitude. Science should always be utilised for the proper progress of human society. Then the social. In the social sphere there are several sub-strata, and the real spirit of social progress is to dispel all social disparities. Each and every member of the human society should enjoy equal rights as members of the same family, but there is disparity and it is the duty of the Renaissance movement to dispel the disparity and bring about equality, equilibrium and equipoise amongst human beings. There are disparities, disparities of different types and different kinds. For instance, there are biological disparities existing in the society, which are being encouraged by certain selfish persons. The biological disparity between human and animal, between human and plant, between animal and plant – that disparity must not be there. Just as a human being wants to survive, a pigeon also wants to survive – similarly a cow also wants to survive, or a tree. Just as my life is dear to me, so the lives of created beings are also equally dear to them. It is the birthright of human beings to live in this world, and it is the birthright of the animal world and plant world also to remain on this earth. To recognize this right, and to get it recognized by the entire human society, the Renaissance movement will have to do something concrete. Then there is disparity due to birth – disparity between people of higher caste and people of so-called lower caste. People of a particular country die of starvation, and people of another country die due to overeating due to voracity. It is a disparity – it is bad. It is a creation of selfish people, not of Parama Puruśa (Supreme Consciousness). The Renaissance movement will have to do something concrete in this respect also. All are equal, with equal glamour as human beings. Now, difference of colour. Due to geographical conditions, due to historical facts, there are differences in colour. A particular human beings may be of white complexion, someone black, someone very black, someone yellow. It is not an innate difference, it is an external difference.