Spirituality: A much needed path for global peace and well-being

Pages: 685-687
Deepali Tyagi (Faculty of Education, Banasthali University, Banasthali, District Tonk, Rajasthan)

More and more youths becoming integral part of industrial processes and machines with sole aim to produce and sell products in bulks to boost the profits of their companies. The situation is, therefore, turning them into narrow minded population which cannot find mental peace and well being due to lack of basic knowledge of spirituality. There needs to be a greater recognition of absence of spirituality course work in the educational curriculum as an academic-problem. To cope with the dilemma, it is necessary that every student of Higher Education must have at least preliminary knowledge about spirituality, so that they may truly become global citizens who might accept the criticism of their belief-systems as a praiseworthy thing like they accept the writings of the sacred scriptures of their own religions. Throughout human history, there have been people of faith, and people who do not believe in any Super Being. Problems occur when one side misunderstands the other. This article aims towards imparting preliminary knowledge of Spirituality, Religion, Belief about God, Religious Beliefs, Difference between Religion, Spirituality and Superstition, Experiencing God, Approaches to God to the students.