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Articles: Devotion | Between we and God
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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'India is being forged into a Bhogabhoomi - land of luxury - a land of skyscrapers, tinned foods, air-conditioning and television. Indians are being shaped into an imitative, insurgent, ill-disciplined mass. They are being transplanted on other soils and encouraged to grow, without roots…. This is the reason, I have decided that this college has to be inaugurated on Guru Poornima Day on Guruvar - Thursday - as a Gurukula - the hermitage school of ancient India in which the highest ideals of life were instilled by personal example and guidance by the Guru to the pupils eager to imbibe. ”Swami concluded with a visionary declaration: 'The seed has been planted, it will sprout and spread, heavy with fruits, providing shade, security and sustenance to all.'
And forty years later what do we see? The hallowed Sri Sathya Sai University which completed twenty-five years of its glorious existence just last year was christened recently as the ‘crest jewel’ among universities in India by the National Accreditation council. And it is not only the University with its three campuses - there is also the higher secondary school with its primary wing performing the difficult task of laying sturdy foundations on which the beautiful mansions of character are later built. Incidentally, in the just-out XII class CBSE results of the higher secondary school, all the 116 students secured above 75 percent and more than 50 percent have obtained more than 90 percent marks. Though discipline, service and sadhana are the first, second and third languages of this school, academics are never a casualty. In fact, emphasis on character-building has only ensured and encouraged sharp learning, be it secular or otherwise.
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