CHAPTER IV: The Program To Fulfill Basic Human Aspirations

HUMAN VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

UNIT - I

CHAPTER IV:  The Program To Fulfill Basic Human Aspirations

ACTIVITY:

•          Prepare a list of everything you want in your life
•          Underline all the physical/material things
•          All the other wants can be classified under Right Understanding  and Relationship with humans

Right Understanding: Right Understanding helps us to maintain proper relationships with other human beings and also helps us to make a proper choice of physical facilities. Hence the needs of all human beings consist of the need for – Right Understanding, Relationships and Physical Facilities in the right order.

Following is a set of three Proposals based on the need for Physical Facilities:

•          Physical Facilities are necessary for human beings

•       Physical Facilities are necessary for human beings and they are necessary for animals

For e.g. : Human Beings need food, water, TV, bike, MBA degree, Relationships with family and society etc.

For e.g.: Animals need food, water, shelter from extreme climatic conditions etc.

•      Physical Facilities are necessary and complete for animals, while they are necessary but not complete for human beings

For e.g.: Animals need food to survive. Once an animal receives the necessary grass or fodder, its need is complete. But for human beings, the needs are incomplete. If they are hungry they want food, but they look for something tasty. Once their hunger is satisfied, they need some recreation/ physical facilities, followed by the need for relationships etc. This list of human needs is almost endless and mostly incomplete.

 

 

           

Solution to Our Present State – The Need for Right Understanding:

The three basic requirements to ensure happiness and prosperity for human beings are –

        i.            Right Understanding

      ii.            Relationships

    iii.            Physical Facilities

(Living only with Physical Facilities is Animal Consciousness and living with all these three is Human Consciousness)

In the modern times, we are mostly not paying attention to(i) and (ii) and are focusing largely on (iii) most of the time. As human beings, all the three are needed for us.

Importance/ Need for Right Understanding:

Right Understanding helps to create harmony at all four levels of human living. Right Understanding enables us to –

•       Resolve the issues in human relationships
•    Be prosperous
•      Enrich Nature
•    Work out our requirements for physical facilities
•    Correctly distinguish between wealth and prosperity
•    Understand the harmony in Nature

Right Understanding forms the basis on which we can work for relationships and also acquire Physical Facilities.

 Two kinds of people in the world today:

1.      SVDD – Sadhan Viheen Dukhi Daridra

(Materially deficient, unhappy and deprived)

2.      SSDD – Sadhan Sampann Dukhi Daridra

(Materially affluent, but unhappy and deprived)

These two states are unwanted by all human beings. With the help of Right Understanding, human beings can move to a third category:

3.      SSSS – Sadhan  Sampann Sukhi Samridh

(Materially affluent, happy and prosperous)                               

Priority Order:

Hence for a continuous happy living, we need to work for all the three in the given order:

        i.            Right Understanding

      ii.            Relationships

    iii.            Physical Facilities

Right Understanding + Relationship = Mutual Fulfillment

                                                              ( gives a feeling of satisfaction and happiness)

Right Understanding + Physical Facilities = Mutual Prosperity

                                                         ( leads to enrichment of our lives as well as enrichment of Nature)

Living in Harmony at all levels of living with the help of Right Understanding:

1.      At the level of Myself: Self-Exploration with the help of Natural Acceptance and Experiential Validation helps to develop a sense of Right Understanding. This right understanding helps me to understand myself clearly, and helps me to develop a feeling of Satisfaction , Prosperity and Happiness(Harmony) in Myself.

2.      At the level of Family: Right understanding helps me to understand others feelings and expectations in a better way. This ensures harmony in family.

3.      At the level of Society: Our family is a part of a large group of people called the Society. As we understand our relationships with others in our family, we also start understanding others in the society and can maintain fulfilling relations with everyone.

4.      At the level of Nature/ Existence: We live in a large eco-system called Nature. Existence refers to all the things that exist in Nature. Once we learn to maintain harmony with the society, we also develop a feeling of concern towards the plants, trees, animals etc. in Nature. Hence right understanding leads to mutual fulfillment with Nature.

Role of Natural Acceptance for developing Harmony at all Levels of our Living