�Holistic Understanding of Harmony on Professional Ethics��

• Implications of the above Holistic Understanding of Harmony on Professional Ethics: Values in different dimensions of Human Living – Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct –Implications of Value based Living – Identification of Comprehensive Human Goal – Humanistic Education – Universal Human Order – Competence and Issues in Professional Ethics.

Content of this Session

• Holistic Development
• The Role of Education in Holistic Development
• About the content of this Workshop/Course
• About the process of this Workshop/Course

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Whatever is said is a Proposal (Do not assume it to be true)

Verify it on Your Own Right – on the basis of your Natural Acceptance

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It is a process of Dialogue

A dialogue between me and you, to start with

It soon becomes a dialogue within your own self

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State of Society Today …

Many advances have taken place in science, technology, management, medicine...

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Has society also advanced towards the desired state?

Out of the three types of fear, which is predominant?

• Fear of Natural Calamities
• Fear of Wild Animals
• Fear of the Inhuman Behaviour of Human Being

Is this on the increase or decrease?

There is increasing tension in individuals, division in family, terrorism in society…

There is increasing exploitation of nature, climate change, global warming…

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Is education contributing positively or negatively to this soceity ?

• Do students develop a mindset of sustainable production & right utilisation
• Or they develop a mindset of accumulation & indulgence (with minimum labour)
• Does this increase the fear or decrease the fear?

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Purpose of Education

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• Should Education prepare one to be successful?

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Success

• Is it getting money?
• Is it getting a degree?
• Is it getting a job?

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• What is success?

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• No Regret of past, No Conflict in present, No Anxiety about future

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Expectations from Education

Education should prepare the student for:

Understanding ‘what to do’ – What is valuable, as a human being

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Learning ‘how to do’ – skills, technology

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Are both required or we can do with just one of them?

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Both are important

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What would be the priority between these two?

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The Priority is

• Understanding ‘what to do’, then 🡪 Value Education
• Learning ‘how to do’ and Doing 🡪 Technical Education

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The Current Priority: Learning ‘how to do’

• Knowingly or unknowingly, our education has become skill-biased.
• There is almost no input on values
• We are currently so focused on providing skills to do things, to prepare people for profession or jobs, that in spite if tremendous achievements of science and technology, we can observe:

1. Lack of mutual feelings in relationship with human beings

2. Lack of mutual enrichment with rest-of-nature

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• This shows up as confusion in the self; being easily influenced by others; and being busy in their program
• E.g.
• Marks vs understanding what is taught – low interest in studies and busy with other programs
• Food – The child assumes "fast food is good for me"
• Language – The child learns "foul words are cool"
• Behaviour – The child assumes "reaction, anger is OK"

Deciding “What to Do” or “What is Valuable”

• Without clarity on the first question, without understanding what to do, even if we are going about doing things in an efficient and effective manner… we are not sure where we want to reach, what is our goal

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• Our program becomes a jumble of choices like
• Complete school with good marks
• Get admission to a good college
• Get a degree
• Get a job
• and so on …..

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• So while we progress in skills, it is difficult to find out if we are making progress or not.

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• As a human being, it is important to understand what to do (what is valuable for human being), and then, how to do

The Role of Education

What is the Role of Education?

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The role of education is to facilitate the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct

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All units around us exhibit definite conduct... except human being

Trees, Plants... Conduct is based on their seed

Cow.... Conduct is based on their breed

Human Beings Conduct is based on their education

The Role of Education

What is the Role of Education?

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The role of education is to facilitate the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct in all Human Beings

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Is there need for such education?

Who is responsible to make it available?

Are we able to ensure this education?

If we want to provide such education, what would be the basic requirements?

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We will explore into this

Check within Yourself!

What do we all want?

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We can examine this within ourselves

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Desire விருப்பம்

Do we want to be happy?

மகிழ்ச்சி / ஆனந்தம்

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Do we want to be prosperous?

செழிப்பு / வளம் /

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Do we want the continuity of happiness and prosperity?

நிரந்தர சுகம் மற்றும் செழிப்பு

Desire விருப்பு State of Being இருப்பு

Do we want to be happy?

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Do we want to be prosperous?

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Do we want the continuity of happiness and prosperity?

Are we happy?

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Are we prosperous?

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Is there continuity of our happiness and prosperity?

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Desire விரும்புவது Effort செய்வது

Do we want to be happy?

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Do we want to be prosperous?

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Do we want the continuity of happiness and prosperity?

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We will explore this further

Is our effort (முயற்சி ):

• For continuity of happiness and prosperity?

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• Just for accumulation of physical facility? பொருள் வசதிகள் சேகரிப்பு

Have you assumed that happiness and prosperity will automatically come when you have enough physical facility?

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What effort are you making for continuity of happiness and prosperity, other than accumulation of physical facility?

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Is Human Relationship Important?

(மனித உறவு )

Check within Yourself!

The unhappiness in your family is

• More due to lack of physical facility or
• More due to lack of fulfillment in relationship?

( உறவுமுறைகளில் நிறைவின்மை )

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How much time and effort are you investing:

• For physical facility
• For fulfillment in relationship

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The unhappiness is more due to lack of fulfillment in relationship !

Most of the time and effort is spent for physical facility !

Check within Yourself!

For human beings physical facility is necessary - relationship is also necessary !!

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On examining carefully, we find that this is a fundamental difference between animals and human beings.

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Physical facility is necessary for animals and necessary for human beings also.

However,

For animals physical facility is necessary as well as adequate;

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For human beings physical facility is necessary but not adequate.

When an animal has lack of physical facility it becomes uncomfortable, when it gets physical facility it becomes comfortable

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Eg. When a cow gets a stomach-full of grass, it becomes comfortable, sits and chews the cud.

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When a human being has lack of physical facility, he becomes uncomfortable and unhappy.

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But once he gets the physical facility, he forgets about it and starts thinking about hundred other things

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(Check for yourself if you feel happy every day that you are getting enough to eat?)

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For human beings, physical facility is necessary but relationship is also necessary

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For animals, physical facility is necessary as well as adequate

RELATIONSHIP

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with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

With nature

For human beings:

necessary but

not adequate

For animals:

necessary & adequate

Other than physical facility what else does a human being think about?

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Make a list of your thoughts …

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On close examination, the list of thoughts can be classified into two categories:

• Feelings in relationship with other human beings
• Right understanding in the self, or knowledge

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Human beings think about ensuring these, in addition to physical facility

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If we recognize human beings’ aspiration, we find that they want to live in relationship with all and feel happy living in relationship, therefore relationship is necessary for human beings.

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Examine within yourself if

• You want to live in relationship (harmony) with others or
• You want to live in opposition with others or
• You believe living has to be necessarily in opposition with others, ie. There is 'struggle for survival' , ‘survival of the fittest’ and check if you feel happy living this way?

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Thus, for human beings, both physical facility and relationship are necessary.

For Human Being, both Physical Facility and Relationship are Necessary

RELATIONSHIP

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with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

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With nature

For human beings:

necessary but

not adequate

For animals:

necessary & adequate

On further examination, we find that we all do want to live in relationship with others

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Every night when there is a fight, we want to resolve it. We start the next day with the thought that we don’t want to fight today, but due to lack of right understanding about fulfillment of relationship, a fight takes place by night

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For fulfillment in relationship, it is necessary to have right understanding about relationship. i.e. Right understanding is also necessary for human beings

Right Understanding is also Necessary for Human Being

Are all 3 required? Is something redundant? Is anything more required?

Are we working on all 3?

If all 3 are required, what would be the priority?

For human beings:

necessary but

not adequate

For animals: necessary & adequate

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(சரியான புரிதல் )

in the self

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

Priority: Right Understanding, Relationship & Physical Facility

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

சரியான புரிதல்

in the self

MUTUAL HAPPINESS

(பரஸ்பர மகிழ்ச்சி)

MUTUAL PROSPERITY

(பரஸ்பர செழிப்பு)

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For human beings:

necessary but

not adequate

For animals: necessary & adequate

Feelings

- Trust

- Respect

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Priority: Physical Facility

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(சரியான புரிதல்)

in the self

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For human beings:

necessary but

not adequate

For animals: necessary & adequate

UNHAPPINESS (Mutual)

Making others Unhappy

DEPRIVATION (Mutual)

Exploiting & Depriving

others

I desire happiness

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If I am not aware that right feelings (trust respect … love) in me is a source of happiness for me

Expressing these feelings to the other can be a source of happiness for the other

Leading to mutual happiness

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I have only option, i.e. to draw happiness from physical facility (includes sensation) even though it is not continuous (tasty & necessary… intolerable)

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Once I become aware that right feelings (trust respect … love) in me is a source of happiness for me, I start paying attention to it

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My dependence on physical facility (including sensation) reduces !

While I do not want to fight, a fight takes place…

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I try to resolve it by giving a gift (tasty food, nice clothes etc.). Sometimes this works… Now I can see that it only shifts the attention from the fight to the gift, and only for a short time… In a few days, another fight takes place, and this time it is of greater intensity… Now I can see that it is due to lack of right understanding about relationship…

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I have been trying to fill this gap by more and more sensation

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The happiness I draw out of physical facility (including sensation) is not long lasting; I get bored by one sensation… so I go for another.

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The happiness I get from feelings is long lasting, continuous. My need for getting these feelings from the other is also continuous

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Right feelings (trust respect … love) in me is a source of happiness for me.

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With insufficient understanding and insufficient fulfilment in relationship, when we put in effort only for physical facility

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1. Firstly, we do not experience happiness

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• Secondly, without right understanding, we are never able to rightly determine our requirement of physical facility

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Therefore, in-spite of having accumulation of physical facility, we feel that we do not have sufficient physical facility and we continually have the feeling of deprivation

Therefore we can observe two categories of human beings

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1. Lacking physical facility, unhappy, deprived (வசதியின்மை துக்கம் இழப்புநிலை )
2. Having physical facility, unhappy, deprived (வசதியிருத்தல் துக்கம் இழப்புநிலை )

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While we want to be –

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3. Having physical facility, happy, prosperous (வசதியிருத்தல் மகிழ்ச்சி செழிப்பு ))

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Check within yourself

• Where are you now – at 1, 2 or 3 and
• Where do you want to be?

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If our living is only for physical facility, then we are living with animal consciousness, because animals live only for physical facility and are fulfilled by that, not human beings

Animal Consciousness, Indefinite Conduct

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(சரியான புரிதல்)

in the self

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Animal Consciousness

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UNHAPPINESS

Making others unhappy

DEPRIVATION

Exploiting /Depriving others

• If we are living for all three (right understanding, relationship and physical facility) then we are living with human consciousness

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• Human beings can be fulfilled by being happy and prosperous on the basis of these three

Human Consciousness, Definite Human Conduct

RELATIONSHIP

உறவு

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(சரியான புரிதல்/ புரிந்துணர்தல் )

in the self

MUTUAL HAPPINESS

(பரஸ்பர மகிழ்ச்சி)

MUTUAL PROSPERITY

பரஸ்பர செழிப்பு

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Human Consciousness

மனித உணர்வு

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Feelings

- Trust

- Respect

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Transformation = Development

Transformation& Progress

Transformation [மாற்றம் ] = Development [முன்னேற்றம் ]

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(சரியான புரிதல்)

in the self

MUTUAL HAPPINESS

(பரஸ்பர மகிழ்ச்சி)

MUTUAL PROSPERITY

பரஸ்பர செழிப்பு

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Human Consciousness

மனித உணர்வு

Animal Consciousness

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Transformation& Progress

மாற்றமும் முன்னேற்றமும்

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Role of Education : To Enable Transformation

Transformation& Progress

The role of education is to

facilitate the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct

Role of Education : To Enable Transformation

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

((வசதிகள்))

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(சரியான புரிதல்)

in the self

MUTUAL HAPPINESS

(பரஸ்பர மகிழ்ச்சி)

MUTUAL PROSPERITY

பரஸ்பர செழிப்பு

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Human Consciousness

மனித உணர்வு

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Animal Consciousness

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Transformation& Progress

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Role of Education : To Enable Transformation

Holistic development is transformation to Human Consciousness.

The role of education is to enable the transformation to Human Consciousness (i.e. holistic development) by way of ensuring development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct

For this, the education has to ensure

• Right understanding in the self of every child (person)
• The capacity to live in relationship with other human beings
• The capacity to identify the need of physical facility and the skills & practice for sustainable production of more than what is required leading to the feeling of prosperity

These are the 3 components of human eduction - if it has to ensure development of definite human conduct

Role of Education : To Enable Transformation

Holistic development is transformation to Human Consciousness.

The role of education is to enable the transformation to Human Consciousness (i.e. holistic development) by way of ensuring development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct

For this, the education has to ensure

• Right understanding in the self of every child
• The capacity to live in relationship with the other human beings
• The capacity to identify the need of physical facility and the skills & practice for sustainable production of more than what is required leading to the feeling of prosperity

These are the 3 components of human eduction-sanskar, if it has to ensure development of definite human conduct

If we look at the education we are giving today…

• First one is missing
• The second one is missing
• In the third one, identification of physical facility is also missing. The willingness to produce by way of labour is also missing. The core feeling that is generated is to accumulate more & more rather than produce more & more ; and to consume more & more

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Role of Education : To Enable Transformation

The role of education is to facilitate the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct by ensuring all 3 (Right Understanding, Relationship and Physical Facility) – in every Human Being

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Parents, teachers & society/environment have the responsibility of providing such education

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Education – Developing Right Understanding

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Commitment/ Preparation/ Practice for Right Living. Preparation includes Learning Right Skills & Technology

Course Content: Right Understanding for Right Living

RELATIONSHIP (உறவு )

with human beings

PHYSICAL FACILITY

(வசதிகள்)

with rest of nature

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

சரியான புரிதல்

in the self

MUTUAL HAPPINESS

பரஸ்பர மகிழ்ச்சி

MUTUAL PROSPERITY

பரஸ்பர செழிப்பு

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Understanding Harmony:

• Harmony in the Individual
• Harmony in Family
• Harmony in Society
• Harmony in Nature/Existence

Feelings

- Trust

- Respect

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Living in Harmony at

all 4 levels:

• Individual
• Family
• Society
• Nature/Existence

Course Content : Right Understanding for Right Living

JUSTICE IN RELATIONSHIP

with human beings

- From Family to World Family

PARTICIPATION IN LARGER ORDER

with Nature

- From family Order to World Family Order

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

in the self

- Understanding Harmony in Individual, Family, Society, Nature/Existence

MUTUAL HAPPINESS

UNDIVIDED SOCIETY

FULFILLMENT OF HUMAN GOAL

UNIVERSAL HUMAN ORDER

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Feelings

- Trust

- Respect

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Human Consciousness

மனித உணர்வு

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State of Education-sanskar 🡨🡪 State of Society

Education- shapes the society of the future

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If we are providing human education - students will exhibit definite, human conduct & they will contribute towards a humane society in future

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If we are not providing such education - students will exhibit indefinite, inhuman conduct & they will contribute to an inhumane society in future

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The state of society today indicates that:

• There is increasing tension in individuals, division in family, terrorism in society…
• There is increasing exploitation of nature, climate change, global warming…

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Are we ensuring human education?

How do we do this?

Course/Workshop Methodology: Self Exploration

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Whatever is said is a Proposal (Do not accept it to be true)

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Explore it within yourself on the basis of your Natural Acceptance

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• It is a process of Dialogue.
• A dialogue between you and me, to start with.
• It soon becomes a dialogue within your own self.

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FAO facts

FAO facts

FAO Report (2011)

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About a third of all the food produced for human consumption each year – or roughly 1.3 billion tons – is lost or wasted, according to a new study commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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Global Food Production is 6 times requirement

Global Food Wastage is 1/3^rd of production

Wastage is enough to feed 1300 crore people/year

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Have we understood right utilisation?

Is it a question of production?

Is it a question of relationship?

Is it a question of right understanding?

It is a question of right education

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38344&Cr=fao&Cr1

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Sum Up: Holistic Development & The Role of Education

The role of education is to enable the transformation to Human Consciousness (i.e. holistic development) by way of ensuring the development of the competence to live with Definite Human Conduct

For this, the education-sanskar has to ensure

• Right understanding in the self of every child
• The capacity to live in relationship with the other human beings
• The capacity to identify the need of physical facility and the skills & practice for sustainable production of more than what is required leading to the feeling of prosperity

These are the 3 components of human education-sanskar, if it has to ensure development of definite human conduct.

Parents, teachers & society/environment have the

responsibility of providing such

education!

If we want to ensure such education

what would be the necessary steps?

We will explore into this further……