One of the Old Monk of India- Yogi Ramsuratkumar: The Divine Beggar
I am a blogger,Iam providing the school education based blogs.Here,the educational principles of ancient Indian monks are compared with the current modern Indian education system.In ancient India, old monks taught education. The places where these old monks lived were called Monasteries and Ashrams. Students stayed here and studied. This system is called Gurukul Vasam. Students studying in these monasteries and ashrams were taught the principles of life.
Popularly known as Vallalar, Ramalinga Swamigal or Ramalinga Adigal (1823–1874), was born in Marudhur, a village near Chidambaram. After his father’s death, his family moved to his brother’s house in Chennai. Despite having no formal education gained immense scholarship. Ramalinga emphasised the bonds of responsibility and compassion between living beings. He expressed the view that ‘those who lack compassion for suffering beings are hard-hearted, their wisdom clouded’. He showed his compassion and mercy on all living beings, including plants. This he called jeevakarunya. He established the Samarasa Vedha Sanmarga Sangam in 1865, and it was renamed “Samarasa Suddha Sanmarga Satya Sanga”, which means “Society for Pure Truth in Universal Selfhood”. Ramalinga also established a free feeding house for everyone irrespective of caste, at Vadalur (1867), in the wake of a terrible famine in South India in 1866. His voluminous songs were compiled and published under the title Thiruvarutpa (Songs of Grace).
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