21
Character Formation - Prof. Pramod Bhatnagar

Character Formation - Dr. Pramod Bhatnagar

Embed Size (px)

Citation preview

Character Formation

- Prof. Pramod Bhatnagar

What is the foremost requirement

to uplift the soul

� Money

� Physical Strength� Physical Strength

� Mental Strength

� Behaviour

� Character

What you can not get in Inheritance

• Wealth

• Property• Property

• Character

• Wisdom

Those who adopt good moral

conduct in place of wicked

conduct achieve excellent lifeconduct achieve excellent life

and longevity.

Human life is an invaluable gift from God

Man has received the facilities not granted

to any other life form. They are

Power to think, talk, write, read etc� Power to think, talk, write, read etc

� Family, medical care, industry,

housing, vehicles.

Why all this special grace of God on

Man only ?

To achieve immortality

How man can get immortality

� By Money

� By physical strength

� By Daivee Sampda (Divine Gift)

Excellent Men Have Some Special

Qualities

� Faith

� Austerity

Compassion

� Trust

� Patient

Courage� Compassion

� Charity

� Forgiveness

� Gentleness

� Courage

� Stability

� Balance mind

� Generosity

Mrutyoho padum yopayanto yadaita draaghiya

Aayuhu pratarum dadhanahaa,

Aapyaayamaanaaahaa prajyaa dhanena

Shuddhaahaa pootaa bhatata yagyiyaasahaShuddhaahaa pootaa bhatata yagyiyaasaha

(Rigved10/18/2)

◊ÎàÿÊ— ¬Œ¢ ÿʬÿãÃÊ ÿŒÒà º˝ÊÉÊËÿ •ÊÿÈ— ¬˝Ã⁄¢U ŒœÊŸÊ—–

•ÊåÿÊÿ◊ÊŸÊ— ¬˝¡ÿÊ œŸ ‡ÊÈhÊ— ¬ÍÃÊ ÷flà ÿÁôÊÿÊ‚H

Meaning

Those who adopt good moral

conduct in place of wicked

conduct, achieve excellent life and

longevity. They obtain physical

and mental purity while being

blessed with money and children

India is the country of Great men

Some of them are…

� Subhash Chandra Bose

� Maharshi Arvind� Maharshi Arvind

� Ramkrishna Paramhans

� Pt. Shri Ram Sharma Acharya

But Great men counted on

fingertips are not sufficient

� The level of our ordinary and very � The level of our ordinary and very

ordinary people also should be

excellent

Adhendvaa charati maayayaisha

Vaachum shushruvaam aphalaampushpam

(Rigved 10/71/5)(Rigved 10/71/5)

•œãflÊ ø⁄UÁà ◊ÊÿÿÒ· flÊø¢ ‡ÊÈüÊÈflÊ¢ •»§‹Ê◊¬Èc¬Ê◊˜Ô–

Meaning

Those who do not practice moral

conduct, they do not get benefit

despite being educated, just as adespite being educated, just as a

cow produced by a magician does

not give milk.

Our bodily requirements are ordinary and

can be easily fulfilled. We waste our extra

capacity in

� Useless talking

� Searching faults of others

� Negative and destructive thoughts

� Getting rich without hard labor

How can we utilize our extra

capacity

� By helping others

� By teaching others� By teaching others

� By improving our self and others

� In Self reforming

� By Good behaviour

Ways to Live Happily

� By Proper Diet

� By Proper Daily Routine

� By Exercise

� Positive and Constructive Thinking

Most People are not prepared to amend their bad conduct and they are not willing to replace wicked conduct with good conduct even conduct with good conduct even then they expect God to fulfill their desires

Most people think by doing ritual

worship, sing, hymn, praising God by

imploring or by making offerings they

can get work done through Him.

• God’s qualities be firmly impressed

on our memory and behaviour and

Real Meaning of Worship

on our memory and behaviour and

to create maximum cleanliness,

discretion and purity in our minds

and soul.

We have

1. Time2. Labour3. Intelligence3. Intelligence4. Money

For the service of Mankind, we can utilize only or all of them

For fulfilling the God’s Wish

We should include maximum purity,

generosity and excellent ideals in our generosity and excellent ideals in our

thinking, attitudes, qualities, deeds,

nature and activities.