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Self Exploration

The document discusses the concept of self-exploration. It defines self-exploration as a process of discovering oneself and one's values through self-investigation and validation. The purpose of self-exploration is harmonizing what one desires with one's innate sense of natural acceptance in order to live in harmony within oneself and with others. The process involves verifying ideas through natural acceptance and direct experience rather than relying on external authorities. If done correctly, self-exploration can help one achieve happiness by aligning one's identity with one's innate sense of self.

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Self Exploration

The document discusses the concept of self-exploration. It defines self-exploration as a process of discovering oneself and one's values through self-investigation and validation. The purpose of self-exploration is harmonizing what one desires with one's innate sense of natural acceptance in order to live in harmony within oneself and with others. The process involves verifying ideas through natural acceptance and direct experience rather than relying on external authorities. If done correctly, self-exploration can help one achieve happiness by aligning one's identity with one's innate sense of self.

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Self-Exploration

by
Dr. I.Nelson
Associate Professor/ECE
SSN College of Engineering
Session Objectives
▪ At the end of the session, students will be able to
comprehend the right understanding acquired
through self-exploration and natural acceptance.
Session Outcomes
▪ At the end of the session,
students will be able to
understand self-
exploration and natural
acceptance.
Outline
• Self-exploration
• Purpose of Self-exploration
• Content of Self-exploration
• Process of Self-exploration
• Understanding Natural Acceptance
• Test Your Understanding
Self-exploration
Self-exploration
Self-exploration
Self-exploration
Self-exploration

Society

Your
decisions Happiness/Prosperity
or
Unhappiness/Wealth

Nature
Self-exploration
Self-exploration
Self-exploration

• Boosts the potency of heat waves


• Creates urban heat island
• Boosts the temperature in cities by 𝟏 − 𝟕°𝑭
Self-exploration
Self-exploration

Destroyed
• Himself
• Society
• Nature
Self-exploration
Golden mean of Aristotle
“Courage is a virtue, but if
taken to excess would
manifest as recklessness and,
in deficiency, cowardice. “

“Sustainable Development”
By Brundtland Commission Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway
First Head of the Commission
Self-exploration
• It's a process of discovering
myself and what is valuable
to me.
• It is me who feels happy,
successful, unhappy or
unsuccessful;
• therefore, what is right for
me is to be judged only by
myself.
• The whole process is called
self-exploration.
Self-exploration

Self exploration is just finding answers to the following


fundamental questions of all human beings:

1. What is my Desire/ Goal?


2. What do I really want in life, or what is the goal
of human life?
3. What is my program for fulfilling the desire? How to
fulfill it?
4. What is the program to actualize the above?
Purpose of Self-exploration
1. Dialogue between ‘what you are and ‘what you really
want to be.
Purpose of Self-exploration
• Process of self-evolution through self-investigation.
• The technique of knowing oneself and, through that,
knowing the entire existence.
• Process of recognizing one’s relationship with every
unit in existence and fulfilling it.
• Process of knowing human conduct and character and
living accordingly.
• Process of being at peace with oneself and in harmony
with entire existence.
• Process of identifying our innateness(Svatva) and
moving towards Self-Organization(Swantantrata)
and Self-Expression(Swarajya)
Purpose of Self-exploration
• Process of self-evolution through self-investigation.
• The technique of knowing oneself and, through that,
knowing the entire existence.
• Process of recognizing one’s relationship with every
unit in existence and fulfilling it.
• Process of knowing human conduct and character and
living accordingly.
• Process of being at peace with oneself and in harmony
with entire existence.
• Process of identifying our innateness(Svatva) and
moving towards Self-Organization(Swantantrata)
and Self-Expression(Swarajya)
Content of Self-exploration
• My Passion (Aspiration)
• My schedule (Technique to fulfil my
aspirations)
Process of Self-exploration

• Whatever the proposal is, don’t start by assuming it to be


true or false
• Verify it on your own
• Don’t just accept or reject it based on scriptures, instruments,
or others

• The following two steps are involved in the process of Self-


Exploration:

1.Verify the proposal based on your natural acceptance


2.Live according to the proposal to validate it experientially.
Process of Self-exploration
• Mechanism of Self-exploration
Process of Self-exploration
Process of Self-exploration
• Natural acceptance
Seeing and observing everything and then getting an
answer from our inner conscience.

• Experimental validation is a process that infuses direct


experience with the learning environment and content.

• It may be a philosophy and methodology in which the


individual's direct experience and focused reflection help to
increase knowledge, develop skills and clarify values.

• Self-exploration takes place in the self and not the body.


Understanding Natural Acceptance
• Natural acceptance

Seeing and observing everything and then getting an


answer from our inner conscience.

• Natural acceptance is a way to bring out the goodness in


everything naturally.

• It assists us in learning everything good from others and


absorbing it in our way, but without changing our identity.
Understanding Natural Acceptance
• Natural acceptance

Seeing and observing everything and then getting an


answer from our inner conscience.

• Natural acceptance is a way to bring out the goodness in


everything naturally.

• It assists us in learning everything good from others and


absorbing it in our way, but without changing our identity.
Understanding Natural Acceptance
• Natural acceptance

⃝ Does not change with time/age


⃝ Doesn’t depend on the place
⃝ Does not depend on our beliefs or past
conditioning.
⃝ Always there within us
⃝ Is the same for all of us.
Understanding Natural Acceptance
Understanding Natural Acceptance
Summary
Content of self-exploration = Basic human desire
= Happiness, prosperity
→ continuity
Process of self-exploration
= Self-investigation, self-verification
It is a process of
living in harmony within,
living in harmony with others…
and ultimately,
living in harmony with the entire existence
The Purpose of this workshop/course is to initiate self-
exploration in you
Test Your Understanding
1. Who would decide what is valuable for you? Yourself or someone
else?
2. Do you want to be able to decide on your own right or
3. Do you want to assume what is told by somebody, to be
dependent on it to decide for you?
4. Are you able to see your desires, your thoughts, i.e. what you are?
5. Are you able to see your natural acceptance?
6. Are you able to see if there is a dialogue between what you are
and your natural acceptance?
7. Are you able to see that when what you are is in harmony with
your natural acceptance, you are in a state of happiness? And
when what you are is in contradiction with your natural
acceptance, you are in a state of unhappiness

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