YOUNG PEOPLE DRUNK

YOUNG PEOPLE DRUNK

The increasing number of crimes, delinquents, lawbreakers, rape, harassment, eve-teasing, striping of girls in the public, and so on provokes us to ask what is happening to citizens of independent, social, republic country India.

In this present scenario we find people of two calibers: one is of trend setter and trend liquefying. What makes young people such? One is influenced by the quality education and the other is not at all. It makes one to think further and further till one gets answer.

Increasing in the problem of drinking leads young people perhaps to forget their identity meaning to say they have no idea who they are, and so in search of their identity they take to violence, crimes in all forms, and give in to ethically, socially, culturally unacceptable behaviour and finally without finding their identity mess-up their lives knowing not what to do with their lives. One of the problems why young people drink is to keep up the expectations of their peer and remain in the group. The other reason is lack of parental guidance which is a major cause of drinking.

  Parents, teachers, educators, and all those who are in some way or the other involved in the lives of young people need to rethink of their duty towards young people. They have become too busy with their own lives, and petty problems, leaving the young people to fend for themselves. Hence young often feel left out, uncared for which drags them to fall prey to vices which are so alluring, promising, and pleasurable for short moment. Thus we can say poor upbringing and callous attitude lead young people.

Today students consider drinking and late night party as trendy (this is the world for them), as parents turn a blind eye to the indiscipline of their children. The answer in an exemplary punishments, meted out fast. School and colleges must also play their part in ethical growth of the personality of children. The backbone of future India can be healthy, strong and energetic only by collective action.

Sound Mental Health Enhances One’s Personality

Sound Mental Health Enhances One’s Personality

          M.K. Gandhi in his definition of Education asserted, “Education I mean complete development of child – body, mind and spirit.”  To have complete development the individual should perfectly all right in all the aspects – physically, mentally, spiritually, morally, culturally, and aesthetically. It is not enough to have development in one or two aspects but in all the aspects of one’s life. The term complete development includes all areas of one’s life. Now the term ‘Mental health’ is self explanatory which basically refers to state of mental health. To enjoy good mental health means free from maladies like anxiety, repression, guilt feeling, emotional conflict, phobias, hyperactive discouragement and so on. These in turn make the individual cripple in his personality. Due to this his progress is choked and instead of blooming he withers and dies.

            Individual who are mentally ill can be termed maladjusted. Their existence is hampered and they cannot live their life as other do. They become truant, mischievous, and land up into unhealthy activities.  Now one may pose question, what makes them so? The answers are broken family (single parent, not enjoying love from his/her parents), Emotional conflict (Failure in the examination), Rejection (Love failure) and many others.

Group living, working, playing together, learning ways of self expression, change attitudes and behaviour of teacher toward educational method and development of students, emphasis on parent teacher cooperation, building human relationship, use of behaviour modification techniques, encouraging positive regard or behaviour. These can help make our society better place to live in where student is loved and in this loving ambient his personality develop better. 

The individual child will bloom when his mental health is sound and will be visible in all aspects of his life since personality includes all the aspects of his life.

To develop the personality of the child one needs to understand the children’s behaviour, to possess positive regard towards students, be expert in teaching program, and be firm like a father and kind like a mother.

Education for character building and freedom of soul

Education for character building and freedom of soul

          “But education has yet to be in the world and civilization, civilization has begun nowhere yet.” – Swami Vivekananda.

            All through he did not write any book yet he contributed valuable thought on subjects that are relevant and viable today. To understand his thought we must first take into account his oft-quoted definition of education –“Education is the manifestation of perfection already in wo/man.”

            The word manifestation implies something already exists and is waiting to be expressed. As he said “what a wo/man learn s is what s/he discovers, by taking the cover off his/her own soul, like a spark is a piece of flint and all that is needed is to strike of suggestion to bring it out.” Manifestation indicates development and already in wo/man refers to a human potential, which is the range of abilities and talents known or unknown that he/she was born with. Potential speaks of the ability of awakening something that is lying dormant. For instance it suggests something about person’s motivation.

            There are three concepts such as capacity, capabilities, and propensity which emphasize three aspects of education, (a) one makes learning possible, (b) one which leads to the development of learning, and (c) which provides self development or self empowerment.

The main aim of education is life building, wo/man making, character making, and assimilation of ideas. The ideal type of education produces integrated person one who has learned how to improve his/her intellect, purify his/her emotion and stand firm on moral virtue and unselfishness.  Finally education should lead to character building and complete freedom of the soul.

The ultimate aim of education is to be enlightened which means to enjoy freedom of soul. 

Group Activity: The mode of social interaction

Group Activity: The mode of social interaction

Group activity as the word reveals the activity performed by individuals in the group; in other words activities or task done by individuals in a team. Group activity is a source or means of stress buster. Just like all the gingers in the hand are not alike, similarly the children of the same age differ. The psychological principle – individual difference is very true when we look into the life of children all have different abilities and when these activities are put to use in a group we have interactions of several talents which in turn enhances the process of communication. This process can be called inter-communication which ultimately develops communicative skills.

 Alice V. Kelihar says, “Communication is very important.” Yes indeed because without communication we are not going to have successful life or enjoy successful career. Whenever there is communication there is growth. Group activity gives rise to leadership qualities; it also develops tolerance, fights inhibition and enhances self-confidence. And perchance there is some sort of discord among group members it gets resolved by support, guidance, manipulation and so on.

Furthermore, it enables the participants to consistently focus on the aims, objectives which are assigned to them. During group activity individual came in contact with so many members and is able o share his own ideas, opinions, and listen to their ideas too. These enable him or her to open up to the realities. Only if he she is open can he grows and enjoys progress in his her life. This process of sharing empowers each member of the group. Group activity teachers the participants human values – empathy, sympathy, collaboration, co-operation, interaction, mutual help, team-spirit, sacrifice and generosity.

Finally group activity has a social bearing in the long run. School as miniature society helps students to become more socially useful being in the society. It teaches them sufficient good qualities which makes them as asset to the society and no liable. These good qualities are developed in group activity. Hence group activity should be encouraged in all institutions for all round development of students in all spheres. It teaches them to be more disciplined person, and which in turn enables them to become good citizen, who is productive to the society and become God fearing. Discipline teaches them to do right thing at the proper time.

EDUCATION = SELF TRANSFORMATION

Introduction: 

Etymologically the term education is derived from Educare, Educere, and Educo which implies to bring out, bring forth and lead out. Today education is considered no more to be pouring out but to bring out what is best in every individual.

Generally education two ways:  The Narrow education and Broad education. Narrow education implies the instructions imparted in the four walls of class room. This may include teaching, delivering lectures, or any other instructions that take place in the class room. Whereas broad education includes the bite of mosquitoes, experience of biting cold, scorching heat, flying in the airplane, riding bicycle, skipping and playing; in short all the events that take place in our life starting from the day break to end of the day are all education. Education takes place throughout our life whether we are aware or unaware. Most of the education takes place not in the four walls of class rooms but in life. This does not mean we must opt for de-schooling. The present system of education which stresses much on instructions imparted in the class room, examinations, test, homework, class work and so on is failing to make a good human being who is good citizen of the country too. The education is to make good human being who is responsible. In other words education is for self transformation. This is more precisely clarified in the definition of Mahatma Gandhi.

M.K. Gandhi defined Education as, “Education I mean all round drawing out of the child – body, mind and spirit.” Education implies drawing out what is best in the individual and developing it to the optimum level so as to become a productive member of the society. Education enables individual to be self reliant. In other words it teaches one to earn one's livelihood. Side by side its aim is to make a person more human. It is process of self transformation. The more educated you are the better human being you must become. Education is not so much of acquiring high marks in the examination but is a process of self transformation. The state of your education is easily evaluated by your way of relating with others, here I mean with God, human beings and environment.  

All round education includes physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, aesthetic and ethical aspect of life.  Education helps individual to become physically fit, morally good, spiritually enlightened, intellectually alert, aesthetically sound, and ethically upright.  

NOT YET…

Introduction

From day break to noon and from noon to eve, and from eve to end of the day lot of events take place. Things happen in our awareness and unawareness. Everything has a purpose in our life. Our spatiotemporal reality reminds us of the shortness of our life. Events in our life happen in accordance with perfect, good eternal and good God's will. Often we fail to see or we do not want to see his will in our life working. We are in the process and not a final product. We are in the process of making…We are not yet…

There is a little story about a tea cup which will best explain this idea. 

One day a couple went in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially tea-cups. This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.  One some fine day in this very beautiful shop they saw a beautiful tea-cup. They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful." As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the tea-cup spoke. "You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always been a teacup.

There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over and I yelled out, "let me alone", but he only smiled, "Not yet." "Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the tea-cup said, "and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy! I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.' Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as He shook his head, 'Not yet.'

Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. 'There, that's better,' I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Stop it, stop it!' I cried. He only nodded, 'Not yet.' Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying, 'Not yet.' Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself. And I did. I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.'

God knows what He's doing for all of us. For he says in the book of Jeremiahs:11 “I know the plan I have for you in my mind; plans for prosperity and not for disaster” He is the Potter, and we are His clay. He melts us, molds us and makes us continuously so that we may be made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing, and perfect will.

INNER PEACE

Introduction

            We are witnessing a tremendous growth and advancement in all spheres of our life. There is advancement in Economics, Politics, History, Science, Technology, Psychology, and many other fields. But when we glance through news papers, watch Television, read magazines, browse through the net we come across lot of things which are contrary to the advancement  then one wonders and goes on to question the authenticity of growth,  progress and development. The authentic advancement will then take place when one is peace within himself. As rightly said by Mother Teresa , The fruit of silence is prayer,  The fruit of prayer is faith,  The fruit of faith is love,  The fruit of love is service,  The fruit of service is peace.

 When one is in peace, his peace attracts all others around him just like magnet attracting steel, or iron around itself. 

Recently I was watching a film, Kumphu Panda, and I came across a phrase “Inner Peace”. This very phrase is uttered by Kumphu Panda several times in this film. Now one may wonder what this inner peace is, or from where does it come, or how does one acquire it and so on?

            There are several ways in which one can attain peace. One of the ways one can acquire peace is through Meditation. Meditation is an analytic, contemplative approach to understand nature and functioning of the mind and to perceive the transitory nature of temporal reality. It does not end here but it bids us for post meditation practice. It consists of avoiding regression into old habits and through it one becomes a better human being day by day and having openness, goodness, patience, and most of all living an inspiring. These human virtues enable in the blossoming of inner peace. When one attains inner peace, his life seems to incline towards spiritual realm. His life becomes a sort of spirituality which inspires, attracts other around him/her.

Spiritual life consists of three complementary aspects

Vision is a philosophical perspective. Through this one goes through a process of investigation of the ultimate nature of reality.

Meditation is a familiarizing with this vision and integrating it through spiritual practice into the stream of consciousness that personality identifies with vision.

Action is expressed in the outer world. The inner knowledge acquired through vision and meditation needs application in all situations.

Spiritual life is matter of transforming oneself and search for truth. Spiritual search when it brings true inner transformation is an experience that is fully alive and unchangingly renewed freshness “we can end war ... but there will be more,” individual's mind need to change. 

There is way to discover inner peace that does not depend on – health, power, success, money, pleasures of the senses. The inner peace is treasure which no one can snatch it away from the individual. This alone can help one to master oneself by conquering all sorts of hardships and know who s/he really is.