Swami Vivekananda gave a scientific definition to education and religion: 'Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man'. 'Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man'.

Swami Ranganathananda quoted the above definition several times in his writings and agreed with it. Swamijj stressed the need for the synthesis of science and religion in education.

Swamiji wanted that "education has to enable all students to achieve at least a fraction of the synthesis of east and west, spirituality and science, contemplation and action. It is the science of spirituality, 'the paravidya' the supreme science, that fosters in man ethical attitudes, aesthetic and spiritual values, including the moral values associated with pure science.

The harmony of all these values and the intrinsic harmony between science and religion, always upheld in Vedanta, become revealed in our time in the deep spiritual kinship between Narendra (the later Swami Vivekananda) the representative of a para-vidya and Sri Ramakrishna, the full embodiment of para-vidya.

All such values emerge from out of the depths of the human spirit at a certain stage of human evolution and after the achievement of some measure of mastery of the environment by him; they do not emerge from physical nature itself. It is folly, therefore, to believe, or to expect, that they will automatically result from the wealth resulting from such achievements".

The current secular school and university education is high; yet it is not yielding desired results. The spiritual education that Swami Vivekananda received from Sri Ramakrishna bearing wonderful fruits of character, strength and compassion is the highest education into which the other two, to fulfil themselves, must lead a child.

It is deep as the ocean and broad as the sky. It harmonizing east and West, Religion and Science, the sacred and secular.

Religion is a necessary basis of education. Religion is realization. No scripture can make us religious. We may study all the scriptures of the world. Yet we may not understand a work of religion or of God. We should not merely to listen to great principals, but we must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice.

Service to poor people is the best religion. Religious Education means knowing of universality of God and his presence in every aspect. Service to mankind is the highest goal of religious education.