Chapter II: Instruction by Vakyartha Sadas
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1. It is the responsibility especially of the team of ministers to take care of the vakyartha sadas of the citizens so that the living faith becomes manifest and active through doctrinal instruction and the experience of Hindu life.
2. Under the direction of legitimate ecclesiastical authority, solicitude for vakyartha sadas to all members of Kailasa according to each one's role.
a. Parents above others are obliged to form their children by word and example in faith and in the practice of Hindu life.
b. Suitable vakyartha sadas should be facilitated so that through this instruction imparted for an appropriate period of time children are prepared properly for the first reception of initiation. c. That having received first initiation, these children are enriched more fully and deeply. d. That the faith of youth and adults is strengthened, enlightened, and developed through various means and endeavors.
3. Instruction by vakyartha sadas is to be given by using all helps, teaching aids, and instruments of social communication which seem more effective so that the faithful, in a manner adapted to their character, capabilities and age, and conditions of life, are able to learn the Hindu doctrine more fully and put it into practice more suitably.
Title XVII
Hindu Education
- Parents and those who take their place are bound by the responsibility and possess the right of educating their offspring. Hindu parents also have the responsibility and right of choosing those means and institutions through which they can provide more suitably for the Hindu education of their children, according to local circumstances. a. Parents also have the right to that assistance, to be furnished by civil society, which they need to secure the Hindu education of their children.
- The responsibility and right of educating belongs in a special way to the temple, to which has been divinely entrusted the mission of assisting citizens so that they are able to reach the fullness of the Hindu life.
- Since true education must strive for complete formation of the citizen that looks to his or her final end as well as to the common good of societies, children and youth are to be nurtured in such a way that they are able to develop their physical, spiritual, and intellectual capabilities harmoniously, acquire a more perfect sense of responsibility and right use of freedom, and are formed to participate actively in social life.