Purnapramati | Srinivas Guttal | TEDxIIMBangalore

Srinivas Guttal, Founder, Pūrṇapramati School, explained the concept of Pūrṇapramati in his talk. He shared his experience of running an experimental school in Bangalore-India for the last 20 years and spoke of the need to protect “rich ancient knowledge”. Highlighting the success of a project to rejuvenate river Kumudvati near Bangalore, he said this was possible because of the involvement of the student community. Sreenivasa is part of a founding team of an alternative integrated learning center, Purnapramati, whose vision is to identify and nurture the Svadharma (natural and individualized diversity) of each Pūrṇapramati-iya through integrated learning within and across Ādhibhautik (physical) Ādhidaivik (mental) and Ādhyātmik (spiritual) dimensions for Bīja-rakṣā of Paramparā (preserving the seeds of traditional knowledge and values) In other words, the kind of task taken up involves building a culture of taking paramparā-s that animate the vibrant diversity of our motherland India, that is Bhārat seriously by educating the younger generations of the liveness in them in spite of the rapid advance of modernity envisaged as break from tradition. The attempt is directed at a possible rejuvenation of the paramparā-s by identifying their respective bīja-s (seminal seeds), preserving and propagating them. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx