Module 1: Introduction to Value
Education
Lecture-2: Self-exploration as the
Process for Value Education
RECAP
 The last lecture-1 explained the Need, basic guidelines, content and
process of Value Education.
 Let us now understand the process of ‘Self-exploration’ in more detail.
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Topics to be covered in Lecture-2
 2.1 Meaning and Purpose of Self-exploration
 2.2 Content of Self-exploration
 2.3 Process of Self-exploration
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Meaning and Purpose of Self-exploration, Self-investigation
1. It is a process of Dialog… It starts with a dialog between me and you
2. It soon becomes a dialog within your own Self…
What I am
What is Naturally Acceptable to Me
Dialog
Desire, Thought…
Natural Acceptance
Harmony
Contradiction
Relationship
Opposition
Relationship
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Process of Self-exploration, Self-investigation
1. It is a process of dialogue – between me and you, to begin with. It
soon becomes a dialogue within your own self
2. It is a process of dialog between what I am and my Natural
Acceptance or what I really want to be
3. It is a process of Self-exploration, Self-investigation  Self-evolution
4. It is a process of knowing oneself and through the self, knowing
Nature and the entire existence
5. It is a process of recognizing one's relationship with every unit in
nature/existence; and fulfilling that relationship
6. It is a process of knowing Human Conduct and living according to it
7. It is a process of living in harmony in oneself, living in harmony with
others…living in harmony with entire existence
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Natural Acceptance
Acceptance
Given independent choice, what
is acceptable naturally
Under the given circumstances,
what one ends up accepting
Natural Acceptance
Peer pressure, conditioning
Sensation
Acceptance
E.g.
Relationship
E.g.
Sometimes relationship,
sometimes opposition
Food for health
Sometimes food for health,
sometimes food for taste
Mobile for communication
Sometimes for communication,
sometimes for respect, show-off
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Natural Acceptance
1. Intact
2. Invariant
Uncorrupted by pre-conditioning
All Individuals
3. Universal " Time
" Space
Process of Investigation - Subjective
Results
Authentic Understanding of Reality
"
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- OBJECTIVE
Education
is possible
(Absolute) Self Confidence
Natural Acceptance about WHAT TO DO (not about how to do)
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Natural Acceptance
 Natural Acceptance does not change with time.
 It does not depend on the place
 It does not depend on our beliefs or past conditionings
 This Natural Acceptance is ‘constantly there’, something we can refer to
 Natural Acceptance is the same for all of us: it is part and parcel of every
human being, it is part of humanness.
 We can refer Natural Acceptance, access it to know what is right for us. We
only have to start referring to it.
 Each proposal in this course needs to be evaluated on the basis of your
Natural Acceptance.
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Exploring What is Naturally Acceptable to Me
What I am
Dialog
(desire, thought)
Sometimes relationship
Sometimes opposition
Sometimes Trust
Sometimes Mistrust
Nurturing
Taste & not nurturing
…
What is Naturally Acceptable
to Me (Natural Acceptance)
As an Individual
In Family
In Society
In Nature/Existence
Relationship
Trust in Relationship
Nurturing the Body
…
My Natural Acceptance
My Innateness
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Scope of this Course
Knowing your Natural Acceptance
What you really want to be
Living in accordance with your Natural Acceptance
Living in harmony within
Living in harmony with others… with the entire existence
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Content of Self-exploration, Self-investigation
1. Desire/Goal (Aim, Objective, Purpose):
What is my (human) Desire/Goal?
(What do I really want in life, or what is the goal of human life?)
2. Program:
What is my (human) program for fulfilling the Goal/ Desire?
(How to fulfill it? What is the program to actualize the above?
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Process of Self-exploration
Whatever is said is a PROPOSAL.
The PROPOSAL is to be EXPLORED within oneself:
a) On the basis of one’s own Natural Acceptance (The student is
NOT expected to ASSUME it to be true)
b) On the basis of one’s own VERIFICATION in living
This is a natural process of self verification and experiential
validation that leads to understanding
It is not a process of assuming things (Do’s & Don’ts) as given
It is not a process of assuming things written in books
It is not a process of assuming things said by others
It is not a process of assuming things based on readings from
instruments
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Process of Self-verification
Whatever is said is a Proposal (Do not accept it to be true)
Verify it on your own right
Proposal
1 Verify
on the basis
Of
your
Natural
Acceptance
2
Experiental Validation
Live according to it
2a
Behaviour with
Human Beings
2b
Work with
Rest of Nature
Mutual Happiness Mutual Prosperity
Which process is Naturally Acceptable to you?
A process of self-exploration on your own right, leading to understanding
in your self
or
A process of discourse, do’s & don’ts, in which you assume whatSlide
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Process of Self-verification
Whatever is said is a Proposal
Do not accept it just because it is – written in some book
– a reading from some instrument
– stated by some person
Proposal
Verify
on the basis
Of
your
Natural
Acceptance
Experiental Validation
Live according to it
Behaviour with
Human Beings
Work with
the rest of Nature
Mutual Happiness Mutual Prosperity
Realization
Understanding
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Summary of Lecture-2 : Self-Exploration – its content and process
Whatever is said is a Proposal
Do not accept it just because it is – written in some book
– a reading from some instrument
– stated by some person
Proposal
Verify
on the basis
Of
your
Natural
Acceptance
Experiental Validation
Live according to it
Behaviour with
Human Beings
Work with
the rest of Nature
Mutual Happiness Mutual Prosperity
Realization
Understanding
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