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 Jeevalaya Institute of
Philosophy,
established by the Missionary
Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (MCBS),
was inaugurated on July 3, 1996. The
Institute became affiliated with the Faculty
of Philosophy of the Pontifical Urbaniana
University, Rome, by the decree of the
Congregation for Catholic Education (Decree
No. 601/2002) on May 23, 2002.
True
to its name Jeevalaya (“Abode of
Life”), the Institute lays emphasis on the
interdependence of life and philosophy. It
sees philosophy as a critical reflection on
life, aiming at constructing a coherent,
comprehensive life-vision that promotes
one's effort to achieve the fullness of
life. Hence the motto, darshanat jivah
(“from knowledge to life”). An undertaking
of the Missionary Congregation of the
Blessed Sacrament, the Institute looks to
the Eucharist, the Bread broken for the life
of the world, for spiritual strength in its
pursuit of wisdom.
 The
Institute aims to provide its students a
philosophical education that brings them to
a solid and coherent view of life,
compatible with the Christian idea of the
world, the human person and God, and makes
them accustomed to personal philosophical
reflection.
The crest of Jeevalaya is a
symbolic presentation of the kind of
knowledge and vision the Institute loves to
impart. “Jeevalaya” is placed within the
kala-chakra (wheel of time) and the kala-chakra
within the all-encompassing Being that
transcends time and space. The triangle
(all-seeing eye) is symbolic of vision
(knowledge), and the host, as the symbol of
the Eucharist, stands for life. The three
sides of the triangle represent God, the
world and the human being. Thus the
triangle, together with the host in it,
becomes the symbol of our quest to involve
and integrate the Divine, physical and human
realms of reality in our search for fullness
of knowledge and life.
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