SADHU VASWANI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOOL FOR BOYS

Yet, Another Contribution of SVM to Humanity

There is a proposal to start a Residential cum day boarding school for boys in the near future. It will be an International School on the outskirts of Poona . To perpetuate the memory of the founder of the Mira Movement in Education – Sadhu T.L Vaswani, it will be called ‘Sadhu Vaswani International School (SVIS). This will be a humble offering by our guiding light Dada J.P. Vaswani to continue to strive to build men and women of character who will understand the true meaning of education, which is the need of the hour.

SVIS will be a center of ‘learning and growing' for boys who will be taught to ‘Purify themselves to be builders of a new Temple of service.' A ‘Sense of honor' will be developed in our students who will be taught to stand up with courage for truth.' To fulfill the dream of our founder, at SVIS we will have teachers who will use “Gentle forces of sympathy and understanding to educate the pupils.”

What type of education will be imparted to the boys in SVIS can be aptly summed up by quoting the following extract from Sadhu Vaswani's article “The Call for New Education”:

“Education teaches how to build homes and the nation in character and sacrifice. This

education teaches that a school is not merely a place preparation for examinations, but a center of the Light that giveth understanding, a center of the Love that illumineth the heart, a center of the Life that would satisfy the great need of our bruised broken world – the need for Peace.”

Mira Movement in Education has emphasized reverence of humanity and cultivating the soul. Mira educational institutions have mainly concentrated more on the education of the women in the last seventy years or so, as that was the need of the hour. Now with the world passing through a great electronic revolution, we seem to be drifting away from the purpose of finer aspects of life – of finding joys of living within and therefore are living a life of stress and strain resulting in loss of peace. Therefore, the call of new education as suggested by Sadhu T.L. Vaswani has become more relevant and the need of the hour is to impart right kind of education to young men and women alike. Dada J.P. Vaswani feels that there is a need to start an ideal school for boys to carry forward the call of Mira Movement in Education.

Is not the world peace the need of the hour? Have the nations of the East and the West not been seeking peace? Peace, true peace will heal the nations. It is now the time to sow the seeds of seeking peace in the minds of the young generation of today. It will be endeavor to imbibe the spirit of brotherhood amongst our pupils who may come from all corners of the world to study at Sadhu Vaswani International School . The world today needs men and women of character. Therefore, we will endeavor to lay stress on character building education – an education which may integrate the character of the pupils to a proper development of the body and training and will power and emotions. We intend to carry forward the Mira Movement in Education further through Sadhu Vaswani International School .