Important Questions with Answers
Q1: Explain Feelings of Trust, Respect and Reverence with their
expressed values.
Trust is to be assured of the intention of the people we live with. It is to have the clarity that, deep
down, the other also intends to make me happy. We can see that when we have unconditional,
continuous trust in the intention of others, we don’t get irritated and angry but try to improve their
competence and be complementary to others.
Complementariness is identified as the expressed value of trust. When we are assured of the
intention of each one of us, we learn to cooperate in complementarity. Being assured of each other’s
intention, we are enabled to collaborate with others to participate with equal responsibility. On the
other hand, if we have doubt instead of trust, we waste our time and energy in opposition. Being in a
relationship is manifested in the feeling of cooperation during work and behavior. When we live with
feelings of cooperation, we proceed towards an undivided society.
Respect: The feeling of respect means the right evaluation in a mutual relationship. Right evaluation
means we evaluate a human being based on ‘self’ and not on ‘body’. When we evaluate based on self,
we evaluate his potential and competence. Based on potential, we find that the other is similar to us.
As I want to be happy and prosperous, others also want the same. As I want to understand the concept
of co-existence and live by it, others also want the same. The purpose, program, and potential of
others are the same as mine. The others have the same program to live with happiness and prosperity
as mine. The activities of desire, thoughts, and expectations are in continuity in us and others too, and
the potential to understand all of these is ingrained in every human being.
Transparency is recognized as the expressed value of respect. It comes under dynamic activity. Right
evaluation leads to knowing one with clarity. When we can rightly evaluate each other, there is no
obscurity. In a relationship, we evaluate ourselves and others. Transparency is a situation when my
evaluation of myself is the same as the evaluation by the other. Each of us knows that the other has
the right evaluation regarding me. I know that I have rightly evaluated the other. The other knows that
s(he) has been rightly evaluated by me. This situation is called transparency.
Reverence: Reverence is the feeling of acceptance for excellence.
What we are proposing is that excellence is to be in a state of continuous happiness. This calls for
understanding harmony and living in harmony – at all levels of our being. Once we achieve excellence,
it continues. Excellence is something definite, something absolute. If someone has achieved this state
of excellence, we naturally have an acceptance for such a person. This feeling of acceptance for
excellence is called reverence.
Worship is the expressed value of reverence. When we can see excellence in the other (i.e the other
has the right understanding and lives with the right feeling, right thought), and we can see that the
other is fulfilled within, then we are inspired to work for that excellence, to live with fulfillment within.
To be proactive for learning -understanding, to make effort for excellence is called worship. Thus,
worship is a readiness to take help to develop the right understanding; which starts with imitating,
following, and then progresses to obedience, discipline and finally being self-disciplined and self-
organized.
,Q2. Explain Birth Ceremony, Gestation ceremony and education
ceremony.
Birth Ceremony: The ceremony’s purpose is to ensure a conducive environment at the time of birth
of a child. This ceremony is about naming a child. A name is essential to address the child. A child is
always curious to know his name’s meaning. If the name is meaningful and based on any reality, the
child’s attention keeps getting drawn to that meaningful thing. Thus, we should be aware while giving
a name to our child.
Gestation Ceremony: This ceremony is for a to-be father and mother (to-be parents). This ceremony
reminds the parents (and the extended family) of their responsibility to make a conducive
environment available for the child, starting with the time it is in the womb. A family is where a child
starts learning everything about feelings, thoughts, behavior, and work. A conducive environment
given by the parents helps children to improve their Sanskaar. The following are the basic
requirements for parents to provide such an environment for their child:
a) The health of the parents: It is important that parents have healthy bodies to participate in
the child’s growth.
b) The conduct of the parents: A child learns many things by imitating their parents. Thus, the
conduct of parents is an important issue. If parents live with human conduct, the child
unconsciously imitates the conduct and learns many good habits aligned to the realities. Later,
parents may help the child to explore human conduct through the process of self-exploration.
Education Ceremony: The education ceremony is at the beginning of formal education, reminding one
of the student’s roles–to make an effort for the right understanding. The initiation ceremony,
conducted at the end of formal education, draws attention toward the right living based on the right
understanding. The education ceremony draws attention to the various activities required to develop
the right understanding, and the initiation ceremony towards living based on the right understanding.
While in an education institution, the main focus is on developing the right understanding (more than
on living with the right understanding), though it is a part of the discipline of the educational
institution. After leaving the educational institution, one has to live in one’s right. The understanding
and commitment to live with the understanding one has developed during education becomes the
basis of one’s living. Thus, at this stage, the initiation ceremony to remind of this commitment to living
with understanding becomes primary. This will prepare an environment for the development of the
right Sanskars in the child.
Q3. Explain Indicators of health, production and education.
Certain indicators for evaluation for the dimension of Health could be-
1. How many people remain healthy and for how long time
2. If someone falls seek, how fast is he able to recover i.e. how strong is his immunity system
3. What is the average life survival period
4. What is the average period over which people remain healthy
5. How good is the lifestyle of the people
6. Whether a medical facility is available to everyone if needed
7. How good is the recovery from illness at the family level etc?
8. A negative indicator could be, lesser numbers of people going to hospital fewer numbers of
times
,We cannot have the indicators of health such as hospitals in every locality and a medical store in every
lane. These may even be an indicator of ill-health of the people.
In the present-day situation, the number of hospitals, medical stores, etc. has become the indicators
of health, whereas they only indicate that if people are unhealthy, they can get the necessary help.
There is no clear indication of whether people are healthy or unhealthy.
Indicators for evaluation for the dimension of Production
Certain indicators for evaluation for the dimension of production could be-
1. Are we able to ensure the production of all physical facilities that are necessary for the
society, by the society itself
2. Is every family engaged in some meaningful production
3. Is every family able to identify its physical needs or is it considered unlimited
4. Is every family able to feel the prosperity or some are accumulating more and more and other
families are feeling deprived
5. Are we able to ensure mutual enrichment with the rest of nature? E.g. is the mother earth
getting more prosperous every day
6. Do people have the willingness and competence to produce
7. Is there work for everybody and is every family assured of its basic needs such as food, cloth,
shelter, etc.
We can not have indicators of Production such as-
1. Higher and higher levels of consumption without having identified the need of physical
facilities required
2. Having more and more products even if the production processes are not cyclic and mutually
enriching
3. Producing more with a view of profit maximization even if produce is not very meaningful or
even harmful such as liquor, addiction drugs, etc.
Indicators of dimension of education
Very broadly, indicators for the fulfillment of goals of the Education dimension can be
1. How many persons are able to reach a state of the right understanding, right feeling & right
thought?
2. How many persons are having clarity of human goals?
3. How many persons are having the competence to fulfill the requirement of Right
understanding, Relationship, and Physical Facility.
The indicator will not be in terms of whether we are able to get a job, what is the salary, etc.
Similarly, indicators will not be in terms of whether we are able to defeat the other in competition.
Rather, it will be in terms of whether we are able to understand and live with the mutual fulfillment,
as this alone will ensure our fulfillment as well as fulfillment of the others. Education is a dimension
that connects to every other dimension. If education is right, human beings will develop the right
conduct. This will reflect in all his expressions, be it in ensuring relationships in the society or
prosperity in the family
, Q4. Define Obligation, duty and ethics
Obligation implies living while sharing the expected feelings like trust, respect, affection, etc.
Certainly, it is necessary to have these feelings in ourselves to express in mutuality. Duty implies
fulfilling the responsibilities and work we have accepted in mutuality with readiness. The follow of
justice means living with justice; education of justice implies developing the understanding of justice
in others so they may start living with just behaviour. The meaning of nurturing justice means the right
fulfilment of expected obligations and duties to run the system properly. So, our living at the national
level is successful through practicing justice, the education of justice, and nurturing abilities in others
to ensure justice. The duties and obligations are fulfilled on the basis of natural identification. Others
get enriched if obligations are fulfilled. The important thing to understand is that by carrying out the
obligation, our own development also takes place along with the other’s development. Living with
obligation and duty implies ethics.
Q5. Explain any one of the formulations:
a. ‘Natural Laws, Wealth, Wishes and Liberation’
b. Non-Accumulation – Affection – Knowledge – Simplicity – Fearlessness
c. Eight-fold path
Formulation 1: Natural Laws, Wealth, Wishes and Liberation
Wealth (Artha), Wishes (Kama), Clarity of natural law (Dharma), and Liberation (Moksha) are identified
as collective human goals. Artha refers to the means that are helpful in achieving the goal. Personally,
freedom from liberation/disillusionment is the goal of human beings. Collectively, the undivided
human society and the universal order are our goals. All the things used to get them are means (Artha).
Wealth (Artha) generally means facilities, physico-chemical goods – which are available to us from the
rest of Nature.
Similarly, the human body is also wealth for the self. It is helpful in achieving the goal. Apart from this,
a human being also invests his Mana, i.e. his self-activities for achieving the goal. In this form, self,
body, and wealth (Physicochemical things) are our wealth (Artha); We have recognized these as
wealth (Artha). Living as a human being means self and body are available to us. Therefore, one of the
goals of human beings, living collectively, is to ensure the physico-chemical facilities (wealth) which
are necessary for meeting our needs. Human’s second goal is to fulfill his desires, needs (which is in
the sense of harmony). Wishes (Kaam) refer to one’s desires. Utilizing facilities to meet our personal,
family, and social needs means fulfilling desires.
In the same way, ensuring Clarity of natural law (Dharma) is to understand the law of Nature
holistically and live according to the laws. Dharma has been identified as the law/rule of Nature, whose
observance ensures the happiness of all human being, which is human innateness. That is, the
essential laws of happiness of every human being have been recognised as Dharma. For the self-
organisation of society, it is necessary to have a solution to fulfil the goal of happiness for all.
Therefore, Dharma is to ensure the laws in a society which are supportive in the sense of happiness
of all human being.
It is necessary to understand now that lawful living is to understand the laws of Nature (natural laws)
accurately to live with mutual fulfillment with nature, to understand necessary laws (social laws) to
fulfil social relationship and to understand laws (intellectual laws) to ensure harmony in all activities
of self and live accordingly. That is, by living according to intellectual laws, our activities of the self are
self-organised; our living (behaviour) with other human beings gets selforganised by following social
Q1: Explain Feelings of Trust, Respect and Reverence with their
expressed values.
Trust is to be assured of the intention of the people we live with. It is to have the clarity that, deep
down, the other also intends to make me happy. We can see that when we have unconditional,
continuous trust in the intention of others, we don’t get irritated and angry but try to improve their
competence and be complementary to others.
Complementariness is identified as the expressed value of trust. When we are assured of the
intention of each one of us, we learn to cooperate in complementarity. Being assured of each other’s
intention, we are enabled to collaborate with others to participate with equal responsibility. On the
other hand, if we have doubt instead of trust, we waste our time and energy in opposition. Being in a
relationship is manifested in the feeling of cooperation during work and behavior. When we live with
feelings of cooperation, we proceed towards an undivided society.
Respect: The feeling of respect means the right evaluation in a mutual relationship. Right evaluation
means we evaluate a human being based on ‘self’ and not on ‘body’. When we evaluate based on self,
we evaluate his potential and competence. Based on potential, we find that the other is similar to us.
As I want to be happy and prosperous, others also want the same. As I want to understand the concept
of co-existence and live by it, others also want the same. The purpose, program, and potential of
others are the same as mine. The others have the same program to live with happiness and prosperity
as mine. The activities of desire, thoughts, and expectations are in continuity in us and others too, and
the potential to understand all of these is ingrained in every human being.
Transparency is recognized as the expressed value of respect. It comes under dynamic activity. Right
evaluation leads to knowing one with clarity. When we can rightly evaluate each other, there is no
obscurity. In a relationship, we evaluate ourselves and others. Transparency is a situation when my
evaluation of myself is the same as the evaluation by the other. Each of us knows that the other has
the right evaluation regarding me. I know that I have rightly evaluated the other. The other knows that
s(he) has been rightly evaluated by me. This situation is called transparency.
Reverence: Reverence is the feeling of acceptance for excellence.
What we are proposing is that excellence is to be in a state of continuous happiness. This calls for
understanding harmony and living in harmony – at all levels of our being. Once we achieve excellence,
it continues. Excellence is something definite, something absolute. If someone has achieved this state
of excellence, we naturally have an acceptance for such a person. This feeling of acceptance for
excellence is called reverence.
Worship is the expressed value of reverence. When we can see excellence in the other (i.e the other
has the right understanding and lives with the right feeling, right thought), and we can see that the
other is fulfilled within, then we are inspired to work for that excellence, to live with fulfillment within.
To be proactive for learning -understanding, to make effort for excellence is called worship. Thus,
worship is a readiness to take help to develop the right understanding; which starts with imitating,
following, and then progresses to obedience, discipline and finally being self-disciplined and self-
organized.
,Q2. Explain Birth Ceremony, Gestation ceremony and education
ceremony.
Birth Ceremony: The ceremony’s purpose is to ensure a conducive environment at the time of birth
of a child. This ceremony is about naming a child. A name is essential to address the child. A child is
always curious to know his name’s meaning. If the name is meaningful and based on any reality, the
child’s attention keeps getting drawn to that meaningful thing. Thus, we should be aware while giving
a name to our child.
Gestation Ceremony: This ceremony is for a to-be father and mother (to-be parents). This ceremony
reminds the parents (and the extended family) of their responsibility to make a conducive
environment available for the child, starting with the time it is in the womb. A family is where a child
starts learning everything about feelings, thoughts, behavior, and work. A conducive environment
given by the parents helps children to improve their Sanskaar. The following are the basic
requirements for parents to provide such an environment for their child:
a) The health of the parents: It is important that parents have healthy bodies to participate in
the child’s growth.
b) The conduct of the parents: A child learns many things by imitating their parents. Thus, the
conduct of parents is an important issue. If parents live with human conduct, the child
unconsciously imitates the conduct and learns many good habits aligned to the realities. Later,
parents may help the child to explore human conduct through the process of self-exploration.
Education Ceremony: The education ceremony is at the beginning of formal education, reminding one
of the student’s roles–to make an effort for the right understanding. The initiation ceremony,
conducted at the end of formal education, draws attention toward the right living based on the right
understanding. The education ceremony draws attention to the various activities required to develop
the right understanding, and the initiation ceremony towards living based on the right understanding.
While in an education institution, the main focus is on developing the right understanding (more than
on living with the right understanding), though it is a part of the discipline of the educational
institution. After leaving the educational institution, one has to live in one’s right. The understanding
and commitment to live with the understanding one has developed during education becomes the
basis of one’s living. Thus, at this stage, the initiation ceremony to remind of this commitment to living
with understanding becomes primary. This will prepare an environment for the development of the
right Sanskars in the child.
Q3. Explain Indicators of health, production and education.
Certain indicators for evaluation for the dimension of Health could be-
1. How many people remain healthy and for how long time
2. If someone falls seek, how fast is he able to recover i.e. how strong is his immunity system
3. What is the average life survival period
4. What is the average period over which people remain healthy
5. How good is the lifestyle of the people
6. Whether a medical facility is available to everyone if needed
7. How good is the recovery from illness at the family level etc?
8. A negative indicator could be, lesser numbers of people going to hospital fewer numbers of
times
,We cannot have the indicators of health such as hospitals in every locality and a medical store in every
lane. These may even be an indicator of ill-health of the people.
In the present-day situation, the number of hospitals, medical stores, etc. has become the indicators
of health, whereas they only indicate that if people are unhealthy, they can get the necessary help.
There is no clear indication of whether people are healthy or unhealthy.
Indicators for evaluation for the dimension of Production
Certain indicators for evaluation for the dimension of production could be-
1. Are we able to ensure the production of all physical facilities that are necessary for the
society, by the society itself
2. Is every family engaged in some meaningful production
3. Is every family able to identify its physical needs or is it considered unlimited
4. Is every family able to feel the prosperity or some are accumulating more and more and other
families are feeling deprived
5. Are we able to ensure mutual enrichment with the rest of nature? E.g. is the mother earth
getting more prosperous every day
6. Do people have the willingness and competence to produce
7. Is there work for everybody and is every family assured of its basic needs such as food, cloth,
shelter, etc.
We can not have indicators of Production such as-
1. Higher and higher levels of consumption without having identified the need of physical
facilities required
2. Having more and more products even if the production processes are not cyclic and mutually
enriching
3. Producing more with a view of profit maximization even if produce is not very meaningful or
even harmful such as liquor, addiction drugs, etc.
Indicators of dimension of education
Very broadly, indicators for the fulfillment of goals of the Education dimension can be
1. How many persons are able to reach a state of the right understanding, right feeling & right
thought?
2. How many persons are having clarity of human goals?
3. How many persons are having the competence to fulfill the requirement of Right
understanding, Relationship, and Physical Facility.
The indicator will not be in terms of whether we are able to get a job, what is the salary, etc.
Similarly, indicators will not be in terms of whether we are able to defeat the other in competition.
Rather, it will be in terms of whether we are able to understand and live with the mutual fulfillment,
as this alone will ensure our fulfillment as well as fulfillment of the others. Education is a dimension
that connects to every other dimension. If education is right, human beings will develop the right
conduct. This will reflect in all his expressions, be it in ensuring relationships in the society or
prosperity in the family
, Q4. Define Obligation, duty and ethics
Obligation implies living while sharing the expected feelings like trust, respect, affection, etc.
Certainly, it is necessary to have these feelings in ourselves to express in mutuality. Duty implies
fulfilling the responsibilities and work we have accepted in mutuality with readiness. The follow of
justice means living with justice; education of justice implies developing the understanding of justice
in others so they may start living with just behaviour. The meaning of nurturing justice means the right
fulfilment of expected obligations and duties to run the system properly. So, our living at the national
level is successful through practicing justice, the education of justice, and nurturing abilities in others
to ensure justice. The duties and obligations are fulfilled on the basis of natural identification. Others
get enriched if obligations are fulfilled. The important thing to understand is that by carrying out the
obligation, our own development also takes place along with the other’s development. Living with
obligation and duty implies ethics.
Q5. Explain any one of the formulations:
a. ‘Natural Laws, Wealth, Wishes and Liberation’
b. Non-Accumulation – Affection – Knowledge – Simplicity – Fearlessness
c. Eight-fold path
Formulation 1: Natural Laws, Wealth, Wishes and Liberation
Wealth (Artha), Wishes (Kama), Clarity of natural law (Dharma), and Liberation (Moksha) are identified
as collective human goals. Artha refers to the means that are helpful in achieving the goal. Personally,
freedom from liberation/disillusionment is the goal of human beings. Collectively, the undivided
human society and the universal order are our goals. All the things used to get them are means (Artha).
Wealth (Artha) generally means facilities, physico-chemical goods – which are available to us from the
rest of Nature.
Similarly, the human body is also wealth for the self. It is helpful in achieving the goal. Apart from this,
a human being also invests his Mana, i.e. his self-activities for achieving the goal. In this form, self,
body, and wealth (Physicochemical things) are our wealth (Artha); We have recognized these as
wealth (Artha). Living as a human being means self and body are available to us. Therefore, one of the
goals of human beings, living collectively, is to ensure the physico-chemical facilities (wealth) which
are necessary for meeting our needs. Human’s second goal is to fulfill his desires, needs (which is in
the sense of harmony). Wishes (Kaam) refer to one’s desires. Utilizing facilities to meet our personal,
family, and social needs means fulfilling desires.
In the same way, ensuring Clarity of natural law (Dharma) is to understand the law of Nature
holistically and live according to the laws. Dharma has been identified as the law/rule of Nature, whose
observance ensures the happiness of all human being, which is human innateness. That is, the
essential laws of happiness of every human being have been recognised as Dharma. For the self-
organisation of society, it is necessary to have a solution to fulfil the goal of happiness for all.
Therefore, Dharma is to ensure the laws in a society which are supportive in the sense of happiness
of all human being.
It is necessary to understand now that lawful living is to understand the laws of Nature (natural laws)
accurately to live with mutual fulfillment with nature, to understand necessary laws (social laws) to
fulfil social relationship and to understand laws (intellectual laws) to ensure harmony in all activities
of self and live accordingly. That is, by living according to intellectual laws, our activities of the self are
self-organised; our living (behaviour) with other human beings gets selforganised by following social
