Constituent Assembly Debates on Spiritual Training of Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Bose
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Monday, the 6th December 1948
Shri H. V. Kamath
...value
and the importance that all our
teachers, from time immemorial, from the Rishis and the Seers of the Upanishads down to Mahatma Gandhi
and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have
attached to spiritual training and spiritual instruction. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose went to
the length of prescribing spiritual training and spiritual instruction to the
soldiers of the Azad Hind Fouj. In the curriculum, in the syllabus of the Azad Hind Fouj, this item of
spiritual instruction was included. When I say, Sir, that the State shall not
establish or endow or patronise any particular
religion, I mean the formal religions of the word; I do not mean religion in
the widest and in the deepest sense, and that meaning of religion as the
highest value of the spirit, I have sought to incorporate in the second part of
the amendment. That is, the State shall do all in its power
to impart spiritual training and spiritual instruction to the citizens of the
Union.
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