Suraj Gurukul 2.68

We are a group of seekers who are trying to understand our role in the cosmic play. We believe the best way to learn about ourselves is to go back to schools and look at the world afresh through the unabridled eyes of children. To test our own convictions, and to seek clarity of thought and ideas, we are executing our own approach to the road to reality through education.

We envision this Gurukul to be a place where knowledge can be pursued without any constraints and inhibitions. The basic requisites of learning are: attitude, imagination and application. To start with attitude, the first question we ask is why should we study anything? Whether it is really something we are interested in? Is it worth investing so much time? How is it beneficial to our survival and existence? Why study physics or why study anything at all? Before the process of learning begins, we need to be clear in our minds in regards to the aforementioned questions. Our goal would be to learn things through experience; to actually use them in our lives and not in the worlds of books. In modern times, we have access to enormous amount of data and information. This information when put in practice leads to wisdom. In the process of our pursuit to know, whatever we learn can be applied and verified. All we need to do is to explore the world with a skeptical and scientific attitude where assertions are tested before acceptance. Everything written in a book may not be true after all! Our aim is to let students explore and find the answers for themselves. The whole enterprise does depend on the assumption that the students have come here to learn out of their interests and nothing else. Even if this is not true, we believe that nature is wondrous enough that if the student is exposed to this beauty, it will eventually capture his imagination and he is bound to be motivated!