Monday, June 18, 2012

Viswa Bharati Constitution Registered

Rabindranath was anxious about the constitution and printing of the said constitution for long time. The constitution was registered on 16th May, 1922, as per act of 1861 under the rule no.21. The registration no. of his certificate is 751. After a few days the printed constitution  a booklet of 36 pages , price-4 annas was printed   under the title, ' VISWA_BHARATI / (THE SANTINIKETAN UNIVERSITY)/ MEMORANDOM OF ASSOCIATION/ STATUTES & REGULATIONS' . It was announced in this book-let that 8th Paus 1325 [23rd Dec 1918] as its date of foundation.  Though the role taken by Nepal Chandra Roy, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Surendranath Thakur, Hirendranath Dutta  in the constitution of its rules and regulations were noteworthy, the portion of its aims and objects was constructed  either by Rabindranath or by a person under his direction so that the ideals of inter nationality be present.;
" 1.To study the mind of Man in its realization of different aspects of truth from diverse points of view.
   2. To bring into more intimate relation with one another, though patient study and research, the different cultures of the East on the basis of their underlying unity.
   3. To approach the west from the standpoint of such a unity of life and thought of Asia. 
   4. To seek to realise in a common fellowship of study the meeting of East and West, and this ultimately to strengthen the fundamental conditions of world peace through the establishment of free communication of ideas between two hemispheres.
  5. And with such ideal in view to provide at Santi-niketan aforesaid a centre of Culture where research into and study of the religion, literature, history, science, and art of Hindu, Bidhist, Jain, Islamic, Sikh, Christian and other civilisations may be pursued along with the culture of the West, with that simplicity in externals which is necessary for true spiritual realisation, in amity, good-fellowship and co-operation  between the thinkers and scholars of both Eastern and Western countries, free from all antagonisms of race, nationality, creed or caste, and in the name of the One Supreme Being who is Shatyam, Shivam, Adaitam.