Melbourne, March 24 : A small country school in Australia’s New South Wales, owned by the spiritual sect of Ananda Marga, is teaching its pupils the philosophy of strict yogic vegetarianism and neo-humanism.
Ananda Marga, the sect that was widely blamed for the 1977 Hilton Hotel bombing, but denied responsibility, bases its ideology on neo-humanism - the theory that total human development can only be achieved through both personal development, and social service to the community.
And children at Vistara Primary School, at Richmond Hill, Lismore are being given lessons that are a little different from the mainstream education.