Spiritual Education in Sri Shankaracharya's Philosophy

The paper deals with the spiritual education with special reference to the Sri Shankracharya's views on the Vedanta Philosophy in which his life and social philosophy influence spiritual education. The paper also deals with his educational philosophy based on the principles of ‘Advaita Vedanta’ 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 Sri Shankaracharya's philosophy. The paper concludes ‘Spiritual Education’ as “it is education which helps to fulfill the potentialities of the individuals through the virtues of Control of mind, control of senses, Purity, meditation, self-knowledge, self-interview, Wisdom, Shardha to Study of Vedanta, Truth, Tolerance, sanyas and solution to the problem 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 such kind of behavior patterns of individuals, -this is spiritual education.”