SPIRITUAL EDUCATION IN TAGORE PHILOSOPHY

The paper deals with the spiritual education with special reference to the Tagore’s Naturalist Phil osophy in which Tagore’s life philosophy influence spiritual education. The paper also deals with the Cardinal Principles of his educational philosophy based on Freedom, Creative self - expression, and Active communion with nature and man which are the integ ral part of spiritual education. In this paper an attempt has been made to recognize, analyze, evaluate and critically examine the dominant factors responsible for strengthening spiritual education in Tagore’s philosophy. The paper concludes ‘Spiritual Edu cation’ as “it is education which helps to fulfill the potentialities of the individuals through the Doctrine of Mother Nature, Universal Brotherhood, Freedom, Service, Co - operation, Love, Sympathy, Wisdom, Peace and Harmony, Truth, Tolerance, Self - control , Self - Confidence, self - expression, and Self - Realization and to prepare them to solve the everyday problems for life creatively and constructively in the new situation of the socio - psycho - physical environment for attaining the highest values and ideas of e ducation, if the teachers enable to modify such kind of behavior patterns of individuals in the lap of Nature, - this is spiritual education.”