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Module – 1 | Topic - 1
Value Education - Definition
• Character oriented education that instills basic
values and ethnic values in one’s psyche is
called ‘Value Based Education’.
• Value education is important to help everyone
in improving the value system that he/she
holds and puts it to use.
• Once, one has understood his/ her values in
life he/she can examine and control the
various choices he/she makes in his/ her life.
Value Education - Definition
• Value education enables us to understand our
needs and visualize our goals correctly and
also helps to remove our confusions and
contradictions and bring harmony at all levels.
• It also helps remove our confusions and
contradictions and enables us to rightly utilize
the technological innovations.
• The subject that enables us to understand
‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is
called value education.
Values and skill complement each
other.
• For example, I want to lead a healthy life. Only wishing
for good health will not help me keep my body fit and
healthy and without having understood the meaning of
health, I will not be able to choose things correctly to
keep my body fit and healthy.
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values/
Natural acceptance
• Natural acceptance implies unconditional and total
acceptance of the self, people and environment.
• It also refers to the absence of any exceptions (Deviation)
from others. (जैसा मैं वैसा वो; जरूरी नहीीं मेरी पसींद भी उसकी
पसींद हो, और उसकी पसींद मेरी पसींद हो) Ex.: Government Job
exams
• Once we fully and truly commit ourself on the basis of natural
acceptance, we feel a holistic sense of inner harmony,
tranquility and fulfillment.
• Actually natural acceptance is way to accept the good things
naturally. Learn everything that is good from others, but bring
it in, and in our own way absorb it; do not become others.
Ex.: If
you
don’t
have an
iPhone;
you
don’t
have an
iPhone.
Characteristics of natural acceptance
• Natural acceptance does not change with time. It
remains invariant with time. For example our natural
acceptance for trust and respect does not change with
age.
• It does not depend on the place. Whatever we have
accepted, in our life, at any time of our age, does not
change, even if we move from one place to another
one.
• It does not depend on our beliefs or past
conditionings. No matter how deep our belief or past
conditioning, as long as we ask ourselves the question
sincerely, as long as we refer deep within ourselves, the
answer will always be the same.
Characteristics of natural acceptance
• This natural acceptance is ‘constantly there’,
something we can refer to. Natural acceptance is
always there. Whatever we do, this natural acceptance
is within us, it is telling us what is right.
• Natural acceptance is the same for all of us: it is part
and parcel of every human being, it is part of
humanness. Though each one of us, may have
different likes and dislikes and means to live and to
react etc. but if we go deep in our mind the purpose of
our work, behaviour, efforts etc. are based on common
goals like need to be happy, need to be respected,
need to get prosperity. So our basic acceptance
remains the same.
Module 1 | Topic - 3
meaning of prosperity
• The feeling of having or making available more
than required physical facilities is prosperity.
• Almost all of us feel that wealth alone means
prosperity and try to explain this phenomenon on
this nonexistent or half fact.
• We are trying to achieve happiness and
prosperity by maximizing accumulation and
consumption of physical facilities.
• It is becoming anti-ecological and anti-people,
and threatening the human survival itself.
meaning of prosperity
• For prosperity, two things are required-
• 1. Identification of the required quantity of
physical facilities, and
• 2. Ensuring availability / production of more
than required physical facilities.
• We can be prosperous only if there is a limit to
the need for physical facilities. If there is no limit
what so ever be the availability the feeling of
prosperity cannot be assured.
• Secondly, just assessing the need is not enough.
We need to be able to produce or make available
more than the perceived need.
prosperity and wealth
• Prosperity is a feeling of having more than required
physical facilities; it is not just physical facilities.
• Almost all of us feel that wealth alone means
prosperity and try to explain this phenomenon on this
nonexistent or half fact.
• Wealth is a physical thing. It means having money, or
having a lot of physical facilities or both.
• This is a very important distinction. We mostly fail to
make this distinction today.
• We keep working for wealth, without realizing that the
basic desire is for the feeling of prosperity, to have
a feeling of having enough.
prosperity and wealth
• Prosperity is more acceptable to us because wealth is
just a part of prosperity.
• We are trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by
maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical
facilities.
• It is becoming anti-ecological and anti-people, and
threatening the human survival itself.
• A person has lot of money, but does not want to share
even a bit of it.
• The person ‘has wealth’ but feels ‘deprived’.
• If one felt prosperous he/she would have shared what
one has, since there is lot more than enough wealth
anyway.
present vision of a happy and
prosperous life
• We are trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by
maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical
facilities. It is becoming anti-ecological and anti-people,
and threatening the human survival itself.
• Some of the consequences of such trend are
summarized below:
• Ø At the level of individual: rising problems of
depression, psychological disorders, suicides, stress,
insecurity, etc.
• Ø At the level of family: breaking of joint families,
mistrust, and conflict between older and younger
generations, insecurity in relationships, divorce, dowry
tortures, etc.
present vision of a happy and
prosperous life
• Ø At the level of society: growing incidence of
terrorism and naxalism, rising communalism,
spreading casteism, racial and ethnic struggle,
wars between nations, etc.
• Ø At the level of nature: global warming, water,
air, soil, noise etc. pollution, resource depletion
of minerals and mineral oils, etc.
• All the problems are a direct outcome of an
incorrect understanding, our wrong notion about
happiness and prosperity and their continuity –
this is an issue for serious exploration.
What do the abbreviations given as
SVDD, SSDD and SSSS signify?
• To achieve our basic aspirations we need to
work for right understanding as the base on
which we can work for relationship and then
physical facilities. Today we are not working
according to this that why we can see that
there are two kind of people in the world:
• 1. Those that do not have physical facilities/
wealth and feel unhappy and deprived. i.e.
SVDD: Sadhan Viheen Dukhi Daridra –
Materially Deficient, Unhappy and Deprived.
What do the abbreviations given as
SVDD, SSDD and SSSS signify?
• 2. Those that have physical facilities/ wealth and feel
unhappy and deprived. i.e. SSDD: Sadhan Sampann
Dukhi Daridra – Materially Affluent, Unhappy and
Deprived. But these are states we don’t want to be in.
We want to move from this to third category i.e.
• 3. Having physical facilities and feeling happy and
prosperous i.e. SSSS: Sadhan Sampann Sukhi
Samriddha – Materially Adequate, Happy and
Prosperous.
• Presently, as we look around, we find most of the
people in the above two categories called SVD and
SSDD, while the natural acceptance of all human beings
is to be in the category of SSSS.
14 Central
Beliefs to
change your
life
14 Central Beliefs to change your life
• Unconditionally accept people. People are not their
behaviors, so, while we can reject a person's attitude or
habits, we will never dismiss a person.
• All people all of the time are doing the very best
they can do, with the extent of the resources that
they have available to them.