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U18MH501 UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES – II
Unit- I Introduction - Need, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process for Value Education : Purpose and motivation for the course, Recapitulation from Universal Human Values-I ( Induction programme ) Self-Exploration : Its content and process, Natural acceptance and experiential validation – As the process for self-exploration Continuous Happiness and Prosperity: A look at basic human aspirations, Right understanding, Relationship and physical facility - The basic requirement for fulfillment of aspirations of every human being with their correct priority Understanding Happiness and Prosperity correctly: A critical appraisal of the current scenario, Method to fulfill the above human aspirations - Understanding and living in harmony at various levels.
Unit – I Learning Objective (LO): This course will develop the student’s knowledge in/on
LO1: self-exploration, happiness and prosperity as the process of value education
Unit-I Course Outcome (CO1):
CO CO code Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to… CO1 U18MH501 interpret the importance of continuous happiness & prosperity through self exploration and imbibe skills to examine harmony
UNIT-I
Value Education deals with what is universally valuable to all of us, what is conducive
to our individual and collective happiness and prosperity in a sustainable way. Value Education
is the education which enables to understand „what is valuable‟ for human happiness. It is all about enabling a transformation in the human beings to help them move from Animal
consciousness to Human Consciousness.
1.1.1 Need for Value Education: The following aspect appreciates the need for value education Correct identification of our aspirations: All human beings have aspirations. The plans to fulfill the aspirations include your personal life, your profession, your family, your participation in the society. It is important to find out what you basically aspire for before investing your energy to actualize your plans. The subject which enables us to understand „what is valuable‟ for human happiness is called „value education‟ (VE). Thus, VE enables us to understand our needs and visualize our goals correctly and also
indicate the direction for their fulfillment. It also helps to remove our confusions and contradictions and bring harmony at all levels.
Understanding universal human values to fulfill our aspirations in continuity: Values
form the basis for all our thoughts, behaviour and actions. Once we know what is valuable to us, these values becomes the basis, the anchor for our actions. We know what we are doing is right and will lead to the fulfillment of our basic aspirations. Values thus become the source of our happiness, our success, our fulfillment. Hence, value education is necessary to fulfill this prime need. We also need to understand the universality of various human values, because only then we can have a definite and common program for value education. Then only we can be assured of a happy and harmonious human society.
Complementarity of values and skills: To fulfill our aspirations both values and skills
are necessary. Happiness for one and for all, and happiness at all times is what universally valuable to human beings. This is the value domain , the domain of wisdom. This helps us to identify and set the right goals and proceed in the right direction. Then we learn methods and practices to actualize this goal, to develop the techniques to make this happen in real life, in various dimensions of human endeavor (struggle). This is known as domain of skills. Hence, there is an essential complementarity between values and skills for the success of any human endeavor. For example, I want to lead a healthy life. Understanding health is the basic requirement of human being is value domain. Then learning skills to judge what food will keep my body healthy and what physical practices will keep my body functioning falls under the skill domain. Only wishing for good health will not help me keep my body fit and healthy and without having understood the meaning of health, I will not be able to choose things correctly to keep my body fit and healthy.
Evaluation of our beliefs: In the absence of a correct understanding of universal human values, we are driven by ad-hoc values and beliefs. Each one of us believes in certain things and we base our values on these beliefs, be they false or true which may or may not be true in reality. These believes come to us from what we read, see, hear, what our parents tells us, our friends talk about, what the magazines talk of, what we see from TV etc. and there is a whole body of belief-system that we live with at any given time. These beliefs usually change with time and sometimes a belief to be of „value‟ to you may not be a „value‟ to your belief-system. This may lead to conflicts and unhappiness. Value Education helps us to evaluate our beliefs and assumed values and make choices which are based on the understanding of reality.
Technology and human values: The present education system has become largely skill-
based. The prime emphasis is on science and technology. However, science and technology can only help to provide the means to achieve what is considered valuable. It is not within the scope of science and technology to provide the competence of deciding what really is valuable. Without this decision, technology can be aimless and directionless. With the understanding of values we can decide on the appropriateness of technology and its application. For example if we value the relationship with the
In Value education, understanding of human values will be presented as proposals. You need to
verify these proposals for yourself and examine your living in this light.
Procedure to verify these proposals:
Verify these proposals through self exploration. Self exploration will be done on the basis of whether the proposals are acceptable to us in a natural manner. The process of self exploration is in the form of a dialogue within the receiver himself/herself. This process is expected to initiate a transformation in our understanding, in our consciousness and our living.
1.2 SELF-EXPLORATION
Self-Exploration:
It is the process of finding out what is valuable to me by investigating within myself.
Exploration = Observing Outside Self-Exploration = Observing Inside
Definition of Self-Exploration: Self-exploration is the process to find out what is valuable to
me by investigating within myself. What is right for me and true for me has to be judged within
myself. Once we start paying attention towards investigating into our present beliefs and
aspirations, we get to know whether our aspirations and what we really want to be (i.e. what is
naturally acceptable to us) are one and the same or not. If they are the same, then it‟s no problem. But if the two are different, it means that we are leading a life against our natural
acceptance. Such a life cannot bring us happiness.
Self-exploration is a process of discovering that there is something innate, invariant and
universal in all human beings. This enables us to look at the confusions and contradictions within us and resolve them by becoming aware of our natural acceptance.
Once we start observing inside, we can achieve harmony at all levels of our living.
Purpose of Self-Exploration: Self-exploration helps us to identify our innateness (Svatva) and move towards Self-
Organization (Swantantrata) and Self-Expression (Swarajya).
- It is a process of dialogue between „what you are‟ and „what you really want to be‟.
- It is a process of self-evolution through self-investigation.
- It is a process of knowing oneself and through that, knowing the entire existence.
- It is a process of recognizing one‟s relationship with every unit in existence and fulfilling it.
- It is a process of knowing human conduct, human character and living accordingly.
- It is a process of being in harmony with oneself and in harmony with entire existence.
- It is a process of identifying our innateness (Svatva) and
moving towards Self-Organization (Swantantrata) and Self-Expression (Swarajya)
Svatva: Svatva means innateness of self – the natural acceptance of harmony. The word “innate"
is defined as originating in or derived from the mind. It is present in an individual by birth. When we identify our innateness, we realise the difference between what we are and we really
want to be.
Swatantrata: Swatantrata means being self- organized – being in harmony with oneself. When
we identify our innateness, we establish a dialogue with our conscience, and it enables us to become self organised, i.e. we attain harmony in ourself. This is called swatantrata.
Swarajya: Swarajya means self-expression, self- extension – living in harmony with others.
When we identify our innateness, what we really what to be and establish a dialogue within, it enables us to become self-organised, i.e. we attain harmony in ourself. When we start living
with this harmony, it starts expressing itself through our harmonious behaviour towards others
and towars our work, and it naturally leads to a healthy participation with the surroundings.
This is called swarajya. Thus, when we start exploring our svatva, in the process of self-verification and living
accordingly, we are attaining svatantrata and svarajya. Exploring our svatva at different levels
of our living helps us in getting rid of our preconceived notions, our dilemmas, contradictions
and compulsions, either external or internal. The more, we attain swatantrata or the self- organized state, the more we can live in harmony with others and we can also help others attain
this state. This leads to our participation in swarajya.
But this process is not complete. It will be completed when on verification on the basis of
natural acceptance and testing in our living ultimately results in „realization‟ and „understanding‟ in us.
1.2.3 Natural Acceptance:
It is the process of seeing and observing everything attentively and then using your inner
conscience to get the answer from within. It is a way to bring out the goodness in everything
naturally. It helps us to learn everything that is good from others and absorb it in our own way, but without changing our identity.
- It does not change with time/age
- It doesn‟t depend on place
- It does not depend on our beliefs or past conditioning
- It is always there within us
- It is the same for all of us.
Fig 1: Process of Self Exploration
Realization and Understanding:
The process of Self-Exploration results in „Realization‟ and „Understanding‟ in us. This
realization and understanding leads to the following answers –
- Assuring
- Satisfying
- Universal with respect to Time, Space and Individual.
Take for example: a proposal- „respect‟ is a value in human relation. When I verify at the level of
natural acceptance, I find that it is naturally acceptable to me. Similarly, when I behave with respect, it is mutually fulfilling to me and to the other. Thus, the proposal is „True‟. If it fails on
any of the two tests, it is untrue. This verification leads to realization of the truthfulness of the
proposal and it becomes part and parcel of my understanding. It is reflected in my thoughts and
in my behaviour.
1.2.4 Experiential Validation – As the process for Self-Exploration
Experiential validation is a process that infuses direct experience with the learning environment
and content. It may be regarded as a philosophy and methodology in which the direct
experience and focused reflection of the individual helps to increase knowledge, develop skill
and clarify values. Most of what we know about our self is not only through our own opinion of our self but also because of how others view us.
When what we already believe to be true of us is validated by some situations, phenomena or
outcomes. We may term it as experiential validation.
1.3. Continuous Happiness and Prosperity
All human beings basically aspire for/ want the following in their life:
- Continuous Happiness
- Prosperity
o If all of us happen to prepare a list of our aspirations, we will find that all our aspirations have an underlying basic desire – the basic aspiration to be happy. Through his life, every human being is continuously trying to do things that make him/her happy. In other words, we always look for continuous happiness in our life.
o In addition to happiness, we also aspire for adequate fulfillment of our bodily needs i.e. the need for physical facilities. These Physical Facilities are the material things we use in order to fulfill the needs of our body. Having enough physical facilities gives us a feeling of prosperity. We want to have a continuity of this feeling too. Hence prosperity is another basic aspiration of every human being.
This has resulted in wrong assessment of wants for physical facilities as being unlimited. But this pursuit is self-defeating. Neither can we hope to achieve continuous happiness through sensory interactions nor can we have prosperity, as it amounts to trying to fulfil unlimited wants through limited resources. This effort is engendering problems at all the levels. Some of the consequences of such a trend are summarised below:
- At the level of Individual: Problems of depression, psychological disorders, suicides, stress, insecurity, psycho-somatic diseases, loneliness etc.
- At the level of family: Breaking of Joint families, mistrust, conflict between older and younger generations, insecurity in relationships, divorce, dowry tortures, family feuds, wasteful expenditures in family functions etc.
- At the level of Society: Terrorism, naxalism, communism, casteism, racial, ethnic struggles, wars between nations, genocide, nuclear genetic warfare.
- At the level of Nature: Global Warming, pollution, depletion of mineral resources, deforestation, loss of soil fertility
1.4. Happiness and Prosperity
Happiness:
Happiness may be defined as being in harmony/synergy in the state/ situation that I live in. “A state or situation in which I live, if there is harmony in it then I like to be in that state / situation. The state of liking is happiness.” Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy. Happiness may be described as consisting of positive emotions and positive activities. There may be three kinds of happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. In other words, freedom from want and distress, consciousness of the good order of things, assurance of one‟s place in the universe or society, inner peace and so forth. Happiness is the state of mind, where we feel good in most of the walk of life.
Prosperity:
The feeling of having or making available more than required physical facilities is prosperity.
Almost all of us feel that wealth alone means prosperity and try to explain this phenomenon on
this nonexistent or half fact. We are trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by maximizing
accumulation and consumption of physical facilities. It is becoming anti-ecological and anti- people, and threatening the human survival itself. For prosperity, two things are required:
1. Identification of the required quantity of physical facilities.
2. Ensuring availability / production of more than required physical facilities.
We can be prosperous only if there is a limit to the need for physical facilities. If there is no limit what so ever be the availability the feeling of prosperity cannot be assured. Secondly, just assessing the need is not enough. We need to be able to produce or make available more than the perceived need.
Prosperity and Wealth:
Prosperity is a feeling of having more than required physical facilities, it is not just physical facilities. Almost all of us feel that wealth alone means prosperity and try to explain this phenomenon on this nonexistent or half fact. Wealth is a physical thing. It means having money, or having a lot of physical facilities or both. This is a very important distinction. We mostly fail to make this distinction today. We keep working for wealth, without realizing that the basic desire is for the feeling of prosperity, to have a feeling of having enough. Prosperity is more acceptable to us because wealth is just a part of prosperity. We are trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical facilities. It is becoming anti-ecological and anti-people, and threatening the human survival itself. A peson have lot of money, but does not want to share even a bit of it. The person „has wealth‟ but feels „deprived‟. If one felt prosperous he/she would have shared what one has, since there is lot more than enough wealth anyway.
Vision of a Happy and Prosperous Life:
We are trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical facilities. It is becoming anti-ecological and anti-people, and threatening the human survival itself. Some of the consequences of such trend are summarized below:
At the level of individual – rising problems of depression, psychological disorders, suicides, stress, insecurity, etc. At the level of family – breaking of joint families, mistrust, and conflict between older and younger generations, insecurity in relationships, divorce, dowry tortures, etc. At the level of society – growing incidence of terrorism and naxalism, rising communalism, spreading casteism, racial and ethnic struggle, wars between nations, etc. At the level of nature – global warming, water, air, soil, noise etc. pollution, resource depletion of minerals and mineral oils, etc.
All the problems are a direct outcome of an incorrect understanding, our wrong notion about happiness and prosperity and their continuity – this is an issue for serious exploration.
Understanding Happiness and Prosperity Correctly
Happiness and Prosperity Correctly:
Happiness may be defined as being in harmony / synergy in the state / situation that I live in. “A state or situation in which I live, if there is harmony in it then I like to be in that state / situation. The state of liking is happiness.” Whereas, prosperity is the “feeling of having or making available more than required physical facilities”. In the current scenario, we are generally trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical facilities. This is an attempt to achieve happiness through pleasant sensory interactions. The physical facilities are not seen in terms of fulfilling bodily needs but as a means of maximizing happiness. This has resulted in wrong assessment of wants for physical facilities as being unlimited. But this pursuit is self-defeating. Neither can we hope to achieve continuous happiness through sensory interactions nor can we have prosperity, as it amounts to
At the level of society– Growing incidences of terrorism, violence, communalism, racial and ethnic struggle, corruption, adulteration, sex-crimes exploitation, wars between nations, proliferation of lethal weapons etc. At the level of nature– Global warming, weather imbalances, depletion of mineral and energy resources, deforestation, soil degradation etc.
All the problems are a direct outcome of an incorrect understanding, our wrong notion about happiness and prosperity and their continuity
1.5. Fulfillment of 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
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.
1.6. Understanding and living in harmony at various levels:
Every Human Being aspires to be happy. All his efforts are toward this end. The outcome from his efforts depends on the focus of the effort, specifically on his notions about happiness. When these notions are right, the outcome is mutual happiness. When the notions are wrong, the outcome is unhappiness.
The purpose of education is to establish right understanding in the human being so that by a certain age, the individual is able to gain clarity about happiness and the programs to ensure it. The process which enables a human being to lead a happy life in continuity regardless of region, caste, creed, gender, race etc. can be termed as Universal Human Education. Such an education only can lay the foundation of an undivided society and universal human order, which all of us are looking for.
Today, with different people having different notions of happiness, one can observe the mixed result at an overall global level in spite of significant material gains, there is increasing strife in family and society as well as damage of nature leading to significant and potentially irreversible climate change.
All this is happening in spite of the best of intentions, so the question this raises is “Have we really understood our basic aspiration”?
1.6.1. Basic Human Aspiration On closer observation, we can see that every human being aspires for a way of life which ensures happiness for all human beings living in harmony with nature.
At an individual level, happiness is harmony and integration among all four dimensions within the self - Thought, Behaviour, Work and Realization.
At the level of society, individuals aspire to ensure harmony and integration among four levels - individual, Family, Society and Nature.
This is the aspiration; this is the desire, this is the innate need of every human being, regardless of age, gender, caste, creed, nation and beliefs.
To gain clarity on this, let us ask ourselves some questions about each aspiration, about “How I want to live” what is written on the left OR what is written on the right in the table below. In this process, we will also get clarity on “How I am living now”.
We can ask ourselves “Do I want fulfillment at all four dimension and all four levels?” OR “Do I just want to ensure Accumulation of wealth, that too Unlimited at the Individual level?”
First: As an individual four dimensions :
- In Thought To have clarity (a state of resolution or solution) OR confusion (a state of problem)?
- In Behaviour to have just i.e. mutually fulfilling behavior with other human beings, resulting in mutual happiness OR to have unjust behavior with other human resulting in domination of some over others?
- In Work Adherence to physical laws with rest of Nature by cyclic mode of production, resulting in mutual enrichment, prosperity for human beings as well as protection of rest of nature OR exploitation and indiscriminate extortion of the rest of nature?
- In Realization Assurance and authenticity of having known the truth, of having understood the reality, resulting in continuity of happiness OR lack of realization leading to mere belief or assumption of it?
Similarly, as a society at four levels of human existence :
- In Every Individual All-encompassing solution, a state of right understanding leading to happiness and self-satisfaction is desirable in every individual or a state of confusion leading to unhappiness and dissatisfaction? OR having a state of right understanding in some individuals will do and rest can follow them?
- In Every Family Prosperity, capacity to produce more than what is required as physical facilities for the family leading to a feeling of having more, is desirable in every family OR Deprivation, a feeling of having less than required, regardless of how much has been accumulated (through production or exploitation)
- In Society Fearlessness, Trust, feeling of being related to the others is desirable OR a feeling of mistrust, a feeling of being in opposition to others leading to fear? Undivided society based on this feeling of trust (acceptance of relationship with every one) is desirable OR a society divided into sects, cast, creeds, and races, nations opposing and fighting each other?
himself and other human being. Today, human being has become the biggest source of problem for human being. The possibility of war between two nations, terrorism, fear of fights and violence within nation states and corruption tiring out the daily lives of human beings has increased. Ecological imbalance, chemical fertilizers and pesticides and sedentary lifestyles are making the body weak and prone to diseases.
The ultimate result of all this is that suffocation in individuals, disintegration in society and damage to the environment are on the rise. Man is thus getting isolated and lonely. Getting isolated is more fearsome than any other scarcity.
We can now clearly see the problem. We can ask ourselves 1) if we are aware of this state 2) if this state is what we want 3) if we continue our effort in the same direction, will it fulfill our (Human) aspirations.
If one looks at these conditions a little deeply, it seems that man has not even been able to rightly recognize his needs so far. Today‟s prevailing materialism has made us to believe that unlimited acquisition of physical/material facilities is the ultimate aim of human being. Entire culture, science, technology, education and nation states are being applied to ensure this. As a result, every human being is being engaged in this. Material acquisition has become the aim for a man's thought, behavior, work and realization, without even bothering to find out how much material facility is required for an individual, family and society.
While man's need to live, to survive has been recognized as a primary need, the need to live in perennial happiness, in a state of no-conflict, to live with knowledge, has not yet been recognized as a basic human need.
The reality is that to live with knowledge is an innate and basic need of human. It is only on the basis of knowledge that man is able to live in harmony within him and in harmony with the larger organization (other humans and rest of nature). Otherwise, he lives in a way purely based on what he has ended up assuming (which may or may not be so in reality, i.e. may right or wrong).
In the absence of knowledge, absence of a resolution (samadhan), man is unable even to correctly recognize as to how much material/physical facilities is required. As a result, he is unable to feel prosperous in spite of having excessive amount of physical facilities/wealth. He keeps getting stuck into a vicious circle of trying to accumulate unlimited facilities/wealth.
On studying Nature, we find that it consists of 4 orders Material Order (soil, air, metals…), Pranic Order (plants, trees…), Animal Order (animals, birds…) and Human Order (human beings). There is relatedness and interdependence amongst all the four orders. That the relationship is one of mutual fulfillment & mutual enrichment is clearly observable amongst the first three orders. In a forest, for example, trees, animals and soil all get enriched one's enrichment is not at the cost of any one. These three orders are fulfilling for human beings also. While human beings have natural acceptance for being fulfilling for other human beings as well as the other three orders, they are not able to be fulfilling.
Further we can observe that every unit in the first three orders has a definite conduct. A piece of iron has definite conduct, a neem tree has definite conduct, and a cow has definite conduct. It is only human beings that have indefinite conduct.
On studying existence and place of man in it, it becomes evident that these problems are not innate to existence or nature. These are due to absence of right understanding in man and fulfillment in relationships between human beings; i.e. problems are manifested by man. If man is the cause/source of the problems or if man is the carrier of problems, then the cause/source and carrier of solutions would also have to be man.
The conduct of units in the material order is based on their constitution, the conduct of units in the pranic order is based on their seed, the conduct of units in the animal order is based on their breed. The conduct of human beings is based on their education-sanskar.
More specifically, human beings' conduct (recognizing & fulfilling) depends on their assuming (assumptions about reality). If the assumption is wrong then conduct will be wrong and indefinite. If assumption is right then conduct will be right and definite. Assumptions can be based on knowing (reality as it is) or not based on knowing (an assumption about reality which is not necessarily so). If the assumption is based on knowing (There can be only one right assumption about the one reality) then the assumption is right otherwise one is not sure.
Due to lack of right understanding, or due to incorrect assumptions, the human order does not have definite conduct and is not yet able to ensure mutual fulfillment. This can be seen in the form of problems such as pollution, resource depletion, and extinction of animals, global warming and threats to human race on earth.
We can ask ourselves “which fear is predominant?” a) fear of Wild Animals, b) fear of Natural Calamities and c) fear of the Inhuman Conduct of Human Beings.
This fear of the other human being is on account of his indefinite (inhuman) conduct. It can not only be recognized as global terrorism or fear in societ y, but also in everyday interaction with even the closest relatives “we don't know how our own child will react or our own father will react...”.
Attempts so far to free ourselves of these problems, have been predominantly on physical facilities and have not placed right human understanding and responsibility of human beings at the center. The result is that we have not been able to live in harmony (within oneself and with entire existence) and form a human tradition on the basis of these attempts.
1.6.3 The Vision for Universal Human Order This is a proposition about the innate harmony in existence. It can be evaluated and understood within the self. At the root is a holistic, and all-encompassing detailed view of reality at every level of existence, from Individual to Family, Society and Nature/Existence that the existence is innately co-existence (harmony, order) and not a chaos or disorder; and Man just needs to understand this co-existence and align with the innate order in the existence.
On the basis of attempts made by a few of us since 1995 in the form of work, behavior and participation in our society, we have now begun to feel that it is necessary and possible to have a harmonious inter-relationships in the four dimensions (thought, behavior, work and realization), four levels (self, family, society and nature) and 10 steps (family to world family); that such a possibility comes naturally since harmony (self-organization) is inherently there in existence, one does not have to create it. Existence is in harmony (self- organization) itself, is organized in itself. The harmony (self-organization) is the form of co-
