India is an ancient land known from time immemorial for its ‘spiritual bend’. Education in ancient India has been rooted in the ‘Saccidānanda’ concept of God and in line with it we have our school motto “ Vande Saccidanandam.” Our anceint sages of the Upanishadic period experienced God as ‘Sat’- Cit- Ananda (Being, Consciousness, Bliss):  Being, Consciousness and Bliss are but three aspects of the Supreme Transcendent Reality.True education (Vidya)  helps  to know one’s own deeper self and experience God. It aims at a balanced growth of the individual and insists on both knowledge and wisdom.

 Spiritual development is the process of unfolding the essential nature of the soul and bringing it out to light from the hidden chambers of ignorance - ignorance that hides the subtle and glorified aspect of our inner personality. It’s only through  spiritual development the ultimate truth of our life, the Sat-Chit-Anandam aspect of our soul can be realized.

 Indian tradition is to acknowledge and respect every faith and recongnize value wherever it is found.  Character is destiny. The future destiny of India depends on the integrity and spiritual strength of our people rather than material wealth. The greatest asset of India is the spirit of its people.

Your children studying in Nirmala Convent High School administered by the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate  has been founded by great 16th century mystic Blessed Brigida of Jesus , an eminent educationist of her times. Besides being an intellectual she was a God-intoxicated soul who laid great emphasis on the spiritual development of our students even as we strive to achieve academic excellence.Through moral science classes, discipline, counseling and overall character formation, Nirmala caters a holistic education of the whole person- physical, spiritual, psychological and intellectual to our students. We just don’t believe in the adage, ‘knowledge is power’, instead we believe that knowledge with wisdom is power.  The School offers a benign ambience for experiencing in theory and practice the Sat-Chit-Anandam aspect of our inner being. A spiritually developed person alone can live in peace and harmony with oneself and with others.  A person who is ‘saccidananda-conscious cannot be corrupt, dishonest and violent. He/ she is aware of the divinity indwells within oneself as well as in  one’s fellow human beings. Hence he/she respects human dignity, defends life in everyone, lives in peace and wishes the happiness and welfare of all:

Our national outlook has been one of tolerance, hospitality, compassion and kindness towards all. A spiritually oriented education should not only train the intellect but also bring ‘grace’ into the hearts of our people. Character is destiny. Character formation is central to our education system.

Education and intolerance are antithetical in concepts. True education purges the emotions and tames the savage within. It helps replace hatred with love, suspicion with trust, greed with altruism, pride with humility. 

 True education enables one to enjoy the deepest joy, peace, truth and enlightenment and let others too to enjoy peace and happiness in the society. Education is to the human spirit what food, air and water to the body. It has to be a perennial flow of pure stream nourishing all that is ‘true’ ‘beautiful’and  ‘good’.

I now invite you dear parents that we in a parents-teachers partnership strive to help our children to enjoy the Sccidananda aspect of their soul through a holistic education that will provide India with a generation intellectually well equipped and spiritually well rooted. I believe that our website will prove contributory to the achievement of our goals of value based and quality education. Let each child who enters the portals of Nirmala, be a gift to mankind, pride of the human race and a potential light of the world.