UHV-I

Session 4

Aspirations and Concerns

at the Individual level

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Review of Home Assignment
You must have completed your home assignment – to classify your
aspirations and concerns into 4 categories:
1. At the individual level (स्वयं के स्तर पर)
2. At the level of family (परिवार के स्तर पर)
3. At the level of society (समाज के स्तर पर)
4. At the level of nature (प्रकृ ति के स्तर पर)

Let us get some of them on the board

We will focus on the aspirations and concerns at the individual level in

this session
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Aspirations and Concerns at the Individual Level
To be happy (सुखी होना) Coming out of stress
To be healthy (स्वस्थ होना) Managing pressure of academics
To be prosperous (समद्ध ृ होना) Time management
Knowledge – quest for knowledge Time lost due to illness
(ज्ञान – सही जानने की कोशिश Entertainment
करना) Sensual desires
Ability to decide properly on my Domination of females by males
own, independently Pressure of placement
(अपने अधिकार पर स्वतंत्र होकर Overcoming –ve thinking
निर्णय ले पाने के काबिल होना) Attending classes
Purification of the mind (मन की Peer pressure
शुद्धता) Temptations
Controlling the mind (मन को Anger
नियंत्रित करना)
Depression
Self confidence (आत्म विश्वास)
Suicidal thoughts
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Aspirations Fulfilment of Aspirations
To be happy Our basic aspirations are fulfilled
To be healthy by
To be prosperous 1. Right understanding(सही
समझ) in the self
Knowledge – quest for knowledge
2. Living with fulfilment in
Ability to decide properly on my relationship(सम्बन्ध) with
own, independently human beings and
Clarity in thoughts 3. Ensuring more than required
Self confidence…etc physical facility(सविु धा) with
rest of nature
We want to fulfil our aspirations
Should education help us to
ensure right understanding?

Should education help us to

ensure right skills?

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Concerns Resolution of Concerns
Coming out of stress Generally, we try to address these
Managing pressure of academics piecemeal. We make effort for
Time management personality development, stress
management, memory
Time lost due to illness
enhancement, anger management
Entertainment and so on.
Sensual desires
Domination of females by males
Pressure of placement
Are these concerns
Overcoming –ve thinking independent issues or they are
Attending classes interlinked?
Peer pressure
Are there many issues or is
Temptations
there a basic root issue?
Anger
Depression
We want to resolve our concerns
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Basic Issue / Root Cause
Proposal (प्रस्ताव): The basic issue is “lack of right understanding”

When we do not understand a reality, we are not able to live with

fulfilment with that reality. So, if we do not understand human being, we
are not able to live with fulfilment within.

We want to explore the outcome of understanding the reality “human

being”:
 Will we be able to live with fulfilment within?
 Will our concerns at the individual level get resolved?

So, let us try to understand human being

(and then find out if our concerns can be resolved)
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Understanding Human Being
Human Being Self (I) Co-existence Body
Ekkuo eSa lgvfLrRo “kjhj

Who makes decisions?

Who enjoys food, music, movies…?

Who feels high, elated, low, depressed…?

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 Human Being Self (I) Co-existence Body
Ekkuo eSa lgvfLrRo “kjhj
Need Happiness (e.g. Respect) Physical Facility (e.g. Food)
vko';drk lq[k ¼tSls lEeku½ lqfo/kk ¼tSls Hkkstu½
In Time Continuous Temporary
dky esa fujUrj lkef;d
In Quantity Qualitative (is Feeling) Quantitative (Required in
ek=k esa xq.kkRed ¼Hkko gS½ Limited Quantity)
Ekk=kRed ¼lhfer ek=k esa½

Are these needs of different types or of same type?

Are both types of needs important / Do we want fulfillment of both types of needs?

Are we working to fulfill both types of needs?

What is the priority between the needs of the Self (I) & the needs of the Body?

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 Human Being Self (I) Co-existence Body
Ekkuo eSa lgvfLrRo “kjhj
Need Happiness (e.g. Respect) Physical Facility (e.g. Food)
vko';drk lq[k ¼tSls lEeku½ lqfo/kk ¼tSls Hkkstu½
In Time Continuous Temporary
dky esa fujUrj lkef;d
In Quantity Qualitative (is Feeling) Quantitative (Required in
ek=k esa xq.kkRed ¼Hkko gS½ Limited Quantity)
Ekk=kRed ¼lhfer ek=k esa½
Fulfilled Right Understanding & Physio-chemical Things
By Right Feeling lgh le>] lgh HkkSfrd&jklk;fud oLrq
iwfrZ ds fy, Hkko
The needs of the Body can not be fulfilled by Right Understanding, Right Feelings alone
The needs of the Self can not be fulfilled by Physio-Chemical Things

Both type of needs have to be understood separately

Both type of needs have to be fulfilled separately

In living, what is the priority?

How much time & effort is spent for right understanding & right feelings?
How much time & effort is spent for physical facility?

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 Human Being Self (I) Co-existence Body
Ekkuo eSa lgvfLrRo “kjhj
Need Happiness (e.g. Respect) Physical Facility (e.g. Food)
vko';drk lq[k ¼tSls lEeku½ lqfo/kk ¼tSls Hkkstu½
In Time Continuous Temporary
dky esa fujUrj lkef;d
In Quantity Qualitative (is Feeling) Quantitative (Required in
ek=k esa xq.kkRed ¼Hkko gS½ Limited Quantity)
Ekk=kRed ¼lhfer ek=k esa½
Fulfilled Right Understanding & Physio-chemical Things
By Right Feeling lgh le>] lgh HkkSfrd&jklk;fud oLrq
iwfrZ ds fy, Hkko
Activity Imagination (Desire, Eating, Walking…
fØ;k Thought, Expectation), … [kkuk] pyuk---
dYiuk”khyrk ¼bPNk] fopkj]
vk”kk½] ---
In Time Continuous Temporary
dky esa fujUrj lkef;d

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Does understanding human being make a difference in living?
While selecting and eating food, what is desirable?
Body is nourished + Self is happy
Body is nourished + Self is unhappy
Body is not nourished + Self is happy
Body is not nourished + Self is unhappy

Find out what happens at the level of Self and Body, when:
 Someone is forcing you to eat when you are not hungry
 You are eating “junk food”
 You select nutritious and tasty food to eat
 While serving, the plate is pushed to you “take – eat (ले – खा)”

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Does understanding human being make a difference in living?
When do you tend to make more mistakes ?

– when you (Self) are disturbed within ?

or
– when you (Self) are comfortable within ?

Does a small child also need respect?

What about - an old woman? A rich man? A sweeper? A well-dressed person?
A begger? Someone who speaks fluent English? . . . Everyone?

Do we interact with respect in all cases or is it conditional?

What is the outcome?

Are the needs same for all human beings or are they different for different
people?
Is the program for fulfilment of needs the same for all human beings or is it
different for different people?
For men-women, young-old, students-teachers, Indians-Americans, rich-poor
etc.?

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Sum Up
Human being is the co-existence of the Self and the Body

The Body needs physical facility

It is fulfilled by physio chemical things from rest of nature

Happiness is the need of the Self

It is fulfilled by right understanding and right feeling in the Self
(It can not be fulfilled by physical facility)
(it can not be fulfilled by getting feelings from others)

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Home Assignment
Home Assignments
4.1. From your exploration of human being as the co-existence of Self
and Body, could you see that you have two types of needs:
• A continuous need (like need for respect)
• A temporary need, which is required from time to time (like the need for
food)
Make a list of your needs. Mark those that are required continuously and
those that are needed from time to time.

4.2. If you feel happy when someone pays attention to how you look,
your clothes, your way of speaking etc., find out if you can get
continuous happiness from the attention of others.

4.3. Do an experiment to find out if you can get continuous happiness

from eating food. Take a large quantity of your favourite sweet. Start
eating the sweets one by one and keep observing how you feel. What is
your conclusion from this experiment?
Note: you could take any sensation that you consider as a source of
happiness for you instead of tasty food for this experiment
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Questions?
Related to Need of the Self Related to Need of Body

1 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING
(le>) Both needs must be satisfied for
in the self human-being to be fulfilled

2 RELATIONSHIP 3
PHYSICAL FACILITY
Feelings
(laca/k)
(lqfo/kk)
- Trust
- Respect
-… with human
beings with rest of nature

MUTUAL HAPPINESS MUTUAL PROSPERITY

(mHk; lq[k) (mHk; le`f)) 18