Sri Aurobindo’s personality was such a multi-faceted that his contribution towards the system of education remained dormant. Lot of ink has been spent in highlighting his contribution towards poetry, social service, freedom-struggle, spiritual writing, yoga etc. Sri Aurobindo and the mother, the founders of the new system of integral education were born teachers, not in the sense that they were born into teacher’s families but they had their natural tendency for this work. This humble effort is to highlight his educational ideals and ideas, which are, of course, based on his own philosophy particularly that of ‘The Life Divine’, which says that "there is divinity in every individual". The need is to get a man sublimated so that he may reach at his zenith. He has to become ‘superman’ by raising and consolidating his all mental faculties and elevating it to the state of ‘super-mind’. It is hoped that the present monograph will suitably highlight the educational thinking of the twin teachers i.e., Sri Aurobindo and the mother.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N.L. Gupta
N.L. Gupta (b. 1940) is the first scholar to obtain a Ph.D. from two different faculties of Nagpur University. He has a series of Postgraduate degrees and many firsts at his credit. He is the first candidate to submit a thesis for D.Litt. in R.S. University, Raipur. Recently, he has been awarded by Maharashtra Hindi Granth Academy for the best work on literary criticism styled as “Nav-Manavatavadi Chintan†(Neohumanistic thought). Dr. Gupta is a prolific writer. Besides many research papers, he has 46 books in both Hindi and English to his credit. Dr. Gupta’s writings have a very broad spectrum of themes which include literature, History, Culture, Education, Sociology, Philosophy, Theology and so on. He is considered to be the authority on ‘Value Education’ on which he has contributed as many as six books with different angles. Latest in the series was Education and Values in the Mahabharata, Mulya Parak Shiksha of about 400 pages published from Ajmer, has been profusely quoted by the scholars. He retired as Assistant Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and settled at Nagpur.
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