Chapter 1: Understanding Value Education

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1. Define Value. Explain the Value of a Human Being with a few examples.
Define Skill. Elaborate on it with a few examples. Highlight the differences between Values and
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Skills.
As mentioned in the chapter, as a human being, we have two important questions to resolve:
 What to do?
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 How to do?
Elaborate on the meaning of these two questions with a few examples.
Describe the two domains of education. How are they complementary? How do they assist in
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living a fulfilling life?
What is the content of Value Education? Discuss the need for it in technical and other professional
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institutions.
6. Explain the basic guidelines for Value Education. What is the need for these guidelines?
7. List any three implications of Value Education. Explain how they are related to your life.
8. Describe the process of Value Education.
9. Define ethics. How are values and ethics related?

Chapter 2: Self-exploration as the Process for Value

Education
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The process of value education has been proposed as ‘self-exploration’. What could be some other
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possibilities for the process of value education?
Explain the process of self-exploration. What is the expected result of self-exploration? Please
2. explain the process, content and natural outcome of self-exploration with a neat diagram and two
examples from your life.
What exactly are the following realities:
 “What I am”
3.  “What is naturally acceptable to me”
 The dialogue between “what I am” and “what is naturally acceptable to me”
Explain each with any three examples.
Describe the term ‘Natural Acceptance’. How do you make out if it is your natural acceptance or
4. not? Describe the characteristics of Natural Acceptance. Explain with examples from your own
life.
5. Distinguish between Natural Acceptance and Acceptance with a few examples.
Given any proposal, if one is not doing self-exploration, what are the other possibilities? Give two
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examples to explain.

Chapter 3:
Basic Human Aspirations and their Fulfilment
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What are the basic human aspirations and what are the requirements to fulfil them? Indicate their
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correct priority. Support your answer with two examples.
Why is right understanding required in relationship for mutual happiness? Illustrate with the help
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of two examples from your life.
Why is right understanding required for ensuring physical facility? How does it result in mutual
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prosperity? Illustrate with the help of two personal examples.
4. Distinguish between 'animal consciousness' and 'human consciousness'.
5. Describe the societal impact of living with human consciousness.
6. When do you say that the development is holistic? What is the role of education in it? Explain
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Chapter 4:
Understanding Happiness and Prosperity – Their Continuity and
Programme for Fulfilment
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Define happiness as proposed in the chapter. Explain with two examples from your day-today life
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to support your answer.
Four levels of living have been proposed in this chapter. What are these levels? Can you see that
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you are living at all these levels? Explain with examples from your life.
3. Discuss the programme for continuity of happiness.
Define prosperity as proposed in the chapter. Explain with two examples from your day-to-day
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life to support your answer.
Is there any difference between prosperity and accumulation of wealth? Explain with few
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examples of both, preferably from your own experience.
Is excitement and happiness the same thing or different? Explain with few examples of both,
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preferably from your own experience.
Critically examine the prevailing notions of happiness and prosperity in the society. What are the
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consequences of these notions?
 Chapter 5:
Understanding the Human Being as Co-existence of the Self and the Body
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Human being is the co-existence of the Self and the Body. What are three specific distinguishing
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attributes of the Self and the Body? Explain with examples.
The domain of consciousness is fulfilled by the activities of consciousness, while the domain of
2. material is fulfilled by material things. Consciousness cannot be fulfilled by material. Explain
these statements.
What is the qualitative difference between the activities of the Self and those of the Body?
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Illustrate with few examples.
4. How is the response of the Body definite?
What is the meaning of definite human conduct? Explain with examples of the definite and
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indefinite response of the Self
What is the gross misunderstanding about a human being? What is the outcome of it? Relate it to
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the problems we see in the society.
Who is male-female, tall-short, good looking-ugly, Hindu-Muslim, blind-not blind, able to
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understand, able to decide, able to run? Is it the Self or the Body?
Chapter 6: Harmony in the Self – Understanding Myself
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1. Why is it important to study the Self? How does it help in your day-to-day life?
Explain the activities of the Self with a diagram. With the help of an example, show how are they
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related
What is imagination? Is it taking place continuously or is it a temporary activity that you can start
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and stop at will? Justify your answer with some examples.
4. Describe the harmony in the Self with a few examples.
5. List the various sources of imagination in the Self. Elaborate with few examples
How is behaviour and work decided? Is it decided by the Body or by the Self? which activity of
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the Self is connecting to behaviour and work?
7. How can self-exploration help to ensure harmony in the Self?
The acceptances out of accumulated imagination at time t was mentioned as sanskar (t). It keeps
getting updated as given in the chapter. Sanskar at the next moment is Sanskar (t+1) = Sanskar (t)
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+ Environment (t) + Self-exploration (t). Explain the meaning of this statement with the help of
any two examples.
Chapter 7:
Harmony of the Self with the Body – Understanding Self-regulation
and Health
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1. "I am the seer, doer and enjoyer. The body is an instrument". Explain with an example of each
2. Define self-regulation and health? How are the two related?
3. What purpose does physical facility serve for a human being? Explain categorically
When one has the feeling of self-regulation, what would be the programs for nurturing the Body
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and protection of the Body? What would be the outcome of these programs?
5. Explain what is meant by right utilization of body?
What role does the feeling of self-regulation play in understanding prosperity? Elaborate on the
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feeling of prosperity with the base of self-regulation
7. Explain how the assumption “Human Being = Body”, leads to the feeling of deprivation
With all the exploration about human being and harmony in the human being, what is your role /
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participation vis-à-vis yourself (the Self as well as the Body)?