UHV2

Understanding the Human Being

Comprehensively
– Human Aspiration and its Fulfillment

Module 1: Introduction

Lecture 1:
Course Overview
Course Objectives
Understanding the Human Being Comprehensively –
Understanding Human Aspiration and its Fulfillment

1.To help the students have the clarity about human aspirations, goal,
activities and purpose of life.

2.To facilitate the competence to understand the harmony in

nature/existence and participation of human being in the
nature/existence.

3.To help the students to develop the understanding of human tradition

and its various components.

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Course Objectives
1. To help the students having the clarity about human aspirations,
goal, activities and purpose of life.

2. To facilitate the competence to understand the harmony in

nature/existence and participation of human being in the
nature/existence.

3. To help the students to develop the understanding of human

tradition and its various components.

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Course Methodology
 The methodology of this course is explorational and thus universally
adaptable. It involves a systematic and rational study of the human being vis-
à-vis the rest of existence.
 
 It is free from any dogma or set of do’s and don’ts related to values.
 
 It is a process of self-investigation and self-exploration, and not of giving
sermons. Whatever is found as truth or reality is stated as a proposal and the
students are facilitated and encouraged to verify it in their own right, based
on their Natural Acceptance and subsequent Experiential Validation.
 
 This process of self-exploration takes the form of a dialogue between the
teacher and the students to begin with, and then to continue within the
student leading to continuous self-evolution.
 
 This self-exploration also enables them to critically evaluate their pre-
conditionings and present beliefs.
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Process for Right Understanding: Self-exploration
Whatever is stated is a Proposal (Do not assume it to be true/ false)
Verify it on your own right
Proposal

1 Verify 2 Experiential Validation

on the basis Live according to it
Of
your 2a 2b
Natural
Behaviour with Work with
Acceptance
Human Beings Rest of Nature

Mutual Happiness Mutual Prosperity

Which process is Naturally Acceptable to you?

A process of self-exploration, self-verification on your own right, leading to

RIGHT
understanding in yourself
UNDERSTANDING or
A process of do’s & don’ts, in which you assume what is said, without verification5
Course Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction.

Module 2: Understanding Human being and its expansion.

Module 3: Activities of the Self.

Module 4: Understanding Co-existence with other orders.

Module 5: Expansion of harmony from self to entire existence.

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Module 1: Introduction.
Course Overview
L1 – Introduction
L2 - Aim of UHV2
L3 - UHV1 Recap – Aspiration
L4 - UHV1 Recap - HB & Existence
L5 - Self is Central to Human Existence

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Course Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction.
The basic human aspirations and their fulfillment through Right
understanding and Resolution; All-encompassing Resolution for a
Human Being, its details and solution of problems in the light of
Resolution
 
Module 2: Understanding Human being and its expansion.
The domain of right understanding starts from understanding the human
being (the knower, the experiencer and the doer); and extends up to
understanding nature/existence – its interconnectedness and co-
existence; and finally understanding the role of human being in
existence (human conduct).
 
 

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Course Syllabus (continued)
Module 3: Activities of the Self.
Understanding the human being comprehensively is the first step and
the core theme of this course; human being as co-existence of the self
and the body; the activities and potentialities of the self; Reasons for
harmony/contradiction in the self

Module 4: Understanding Co-existence with other orders.

The need and the process of inner evolution (through self-exploration,
self-awareness and self-evaluation)- particularly awakening to activities
of the Self: Realization, Understanding and Contemplation in the Self
(Realization of Co-Existence, Understanding of Harmony in Nature and
Contemplation of Participation of Human in this harmony/ order leading
to comprehensive knowledge about the existence).

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Course Syllabus (continued)
Module 5: Expansion of harmony from self to entire existence.
Understanding different aspects of All-encompassing Resolution
(understanding, wisdom, science etc.), Holistic way of living for Human
Being with All-encompassing Resolution covering all four dimensions of
human endeavour viz., realization, thought, behavior and work
(participation in the larger order) leading to harmony at all levels from
self to Nature and entire Existence

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Reference Books
1. A Foundation Course in Human Values and Professional Ethics, R R Gaur, R
Asthana, G P Bagaria, 2nd Revised Edition, Excel Books, New Delhi, 2019. ISBN 978-
93-87034-47-1
2. Teachers’ Manual for A Foundation Course in Human Values and Professional
Ethics, R R Gaur, R Asthana, G P Bagaria, 2nd Revised Edition, Excel Books, New
Delhi, 2019. ISBN 978-93-87034-53-2

3. Avartansheel Arthshastra, A. Nagraj, Divya Path Sansthan, Amarkantak, India

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Background
1. We exist as human being. We want to live a fulfilling life. We have
some desires and we have some programs for the fulfillment of it.

2. It is important for us to understand our basic aspiration and program

for its fulfillment correctly and comprehensibly. Only then, we can
ensure the fulfillment.

3. This is what we have been trying to do in UHV1. We want to study it

in further depth in this course (UHV2)

The goal of this course (UHV2) can be viewed as follows

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Goal of this Course (UHV2)
1. To explore the human reality (its being, basic aspiration, its
fulfilment), particularly the Self, in more depth
 Self is central to human existence

2. To explore deeper into the nature and existence as co-existence

 co-existence is central to existence
 everything that we see in nature and existence is the natural
expression and unfolding of this co-existence

3. To understand the role of human being in further detail, in the light of

the above
 To understand the co-existence
 To have the feeling and the thought of co-existence
 To live in co-existence in mutual relation with human being and the
rest of nature
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Our Purpose & Program depends on Assumption/ Understanding
about:
In UHV1, we have seen that knowingly or unknowingly, we have
assumed some purpose in life and we have some program for the
fulfillment of the set purpose.

This setting up of the purpose and program depends upon our

assumptions about:
1. Human Being
2. Existence

We had some assumptions about these two before UHV1

And now these assumptions have been modified through the process of
self-exploration that we went through in the UHV1 course.

Let us look at some details of this shift in our assumptions.

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