SPIRITUAL EDUCATION IN SWAMI DAYANANDA’S PHILOSOPHY

The paper deals with the spiritual education with special reference to the Swami Dayananda’s vie ws on the Ethics, and Philosophy in which his life and social philosophy influence spiritual education. The paper also deals with his educational philosophy based on the principles of ‘Dharma’ and of ‘The Five Tests of Truth’ which are the integral part of spiritual education. In this paper an attempt has been made to recognize, comprehend, find out, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and critically examine the dominant factors responsible for strengthening spiritual education in Swami Dayananda’s philosophy. Th e paper concludes ‘Spiritual Education’ as “it is education which helps to fulfill the potentialities of the individuals through the virtues of Non - violence, Preservence, Control of mind, Non - stealing, Purity, Wisdom, Study, Truth, Tolerance, Control of senses, and non - anger 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 knowledge and wisdom, if the teachers enable to modify s uch kind of behavior patterns of individuals, - this is spiritual education.”