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Bharata Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya, was without doubt one of the most influential maker of
modern India. He was born to Srinivasa Shastry and Venkata lakshmamma at Muddenhalli village in
Chikkaballapur district. His father was a Sanskrit scholar. He was an engineer, administrator and
statesman. He was a combination of intellect, integrity, discipline, culture and vision. He was belonged to
that small group of Indians whose ideas and achievements had been among the truly creative and
formative forces of modern India. Many universities conferred him „
.

Sir M.V. was by approach a scientist and believed in knowledge acquisition through life-long learning,
from surrounding, self-study which is evident from the number of honors from different Universities and
encouraged the same through participating in the then emerging educational institutions as Mysore
University and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He believed in application of the knowledge in
practical purposes to achieve success and saw these institutions as pillars to achieve the goal of equality
and prosperity. Sir M.V. was a true believer and follower of Indian Ethos. He was follower of spiritual
culture and practiced non-violence, religious tolerance, pluralism, idealism, renunciation and meditation.

Sir M.V. was a true believer and follower of Indian Ethos. He was follower of spiritual culture and
practiced non-violence, religious tolerance, pluralism, idealism, renunciation and meditation. He believed
in Indian spiritual culture and its doctrines. In terms of Dharma (Moral or Social Order) he followed the
three aspects in his own way that are: Artha, Moksha and Yama.

(to earn wealth in a righteous way): He never gave higher priority to artha as he left his job even
when he was persuaded by showing monetary profits and stick to his ethical belief of self respect and
patriotism, believed in scrupulous transactions and never burdened public with unnecessary spending
while his travels through villages.

 liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth): He sought spiritual well being (moksha) in his
own way by not refraining from the fact of rebirth and believed in work till salvation. He was very self-
controlled in achieving the bodily needs and followed very strict discipline in his eating, sleeping and
exercising habits.

As he followed such discipline life then he followed º 

  such as:

 (Interpersonal Ethics): He was a strong believer of Yama, as he believed in Ahimsa (non-
violence), Satya (truthfulness), Asatya ( non-stealing), and Aparigrah (non-grabbing) he always said ³Do
honest labour. To think of exploiting the labour, of someone else and search for the mean is false.´

(Intrapersonal Ethics):

a ºhysical and mental cleanliness: He so much disciplined about eating and sleeping.
a Happiness/Contentment: He believed in santhosha.
 a Hard work (Tapa) : He believed in hard working. He loved his work and wanted to work
for the nation.
a Self-study (swadhya): He was a good scientist and always believed in learning.

His approach to the upliftment of community by inspiring them to believe in their capabilities and take
action to achieve success. He believed in patriotism and self-respect. He was fully confident of the
capability of Indians. He believed that if proper education, training, opportunity and atmosphere created
then Indians could do many productive works. He encouraged young men to acquire practical experience
and shoulder greater responsibility.

Sir M.V. was an ethical person with good character. Five principal of ethics:

a ºurpose: What is your purpose? What kind of person do you want to be?
a ºride: Have a balanced amount of pride-not too much or too little.
a ºatience: Be patience.
a ºersistence: ºersist, even when it is not popular.
a ºerspective: Have perspective-choose your battles and make priorities.

In terms of ethics he was a very strong person, he had a purpose in his life. He was a prideful person he
thought that ³he left his job for his and countries pride´.

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a Trustworthiness: He was a trustworthy person. Every people of society believed in him and his
work.
a Respect: Society respected him due his exemplary work. And he also respected others.
a Responsibility: He always took responsibility for development and success of the nation and
encouraged young people to achieve goal with responsibility.
a Fairness: He believed in fair dealing. He was scrupulous in all his transaction.
a Caring: He cared the society and worked for it.
a ×ood Citizenship: He was a great patriot.

He believed ³One cannot be happy unless, everyone around is happy´. He was a man of action and not
one of mere theory. He always thought at the perspective of society and believed in happiness of society.
He was a nature lover. He wanted plan which aim should be to provide a richer life for all the people of
the country by harnessing the natural and human resources and banishing poverty, unemployment and
suffering.

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The way to build a better nation is to build a better individual. A successful nation is composed of
citizens, the majority of whom are efficient, of good character and posses a reasonably high sense of duty.
An individual who aspires to be trusted should have character. Our people, men and women, should strive
by their own efforts to lead an honest life. Such had been the refrain of his teaching throughout his life.