Swamiji Message:- H.H Swami Chinmayanandaji’s MESSAGE
To mould the behavior of an individual is to mold the character of the community. This is what education strives to achieve. I believe that we can give a purposeful direction to a personality even in the days of its almost unconscious childhood. Later on, no doubt we must hammer out new extensions for the child and open up new dimensions for its play in the society through literacy, scientific and social studies. Whatever the child is to be later on, say, a political leader, an economist, a philosopher, a scientific scholar or a glorious artist, his contribution to the society will directly depend upon his character and personality.
Today in our country, we find that we have mighty intellectuals equipped to act and to serve. Yet, everywhere we find nothing but ineffectual endeavours, crude confusions, a characteristic perversity, a suicidal indiscipline. In short, the tragedy of our society today is the tragedy of our discipline. I have every hope that you and the dedicated members of the school will tenderly supplement the lack of the right home atmosphere under which the teeming children of our country are getting distorted in their general growth.
The present convulsions of behavior that one observes in all levels of our society can be directly attributed to the unsavory growth of the real personality in the children. If your efforts can start a new movement of mental growth through this new scheme of giving a right lead for the inner expansion for the growth of children, we shall have done a wonderful pioneer work in remaking our nation of ourselves.