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B.1 Expectations within Family

In the past session, expectations within the family have been discussed. Goal was to move the focus from
material to non-material aspects. Now we expand the circle from family to people who help us live.

B.2 Recognizing the Role of Others
You may ask students to list people who have done things in the past or are doing things for them.

For example, I had meals today in School mess/canteen. Who are the people that helped me so that I was able
to have my meals? Some students might answer, I am grateful towards my father as he has paid for it. Ask
who else? Some students might say no one else.

One of the answers that might come is: parents paid for the meals, so persons concerned have received their
due.

We may revert back: think, can their contribution be fully repaid in terms of money alone?

Someone had served the food, someone cooked the food, someone bought the raw materials from the
market, someone brought food from farms to market, and someone grew the food. There is a long chain of
people who helped us in this process. Do you know who served, who cooked, etc. We do not know most of
them. In hostel, it may happen that we do not even know who had cooked our food today!

Do you feel gratitude towards each one of the people in the chain?

To exemplify the above case, we may narrate a situation like below: during scorching summer, on the road
someone felt so thirsty that it was difficult to sustain without water. You shared your water. Next day the
person came with a bucket of water to repay. How would you feel? Do you think even money could repay your
contribution?

Think, for such situations, how the contributions can be repaid.

(We may create the spark in the students: how about helping others in similar situations!)

B.3 Our Help to Others

How many people have we helped? Ask the students to think from their past experience.

How many people are we helping now? Most students might realize that they are doing very little for others.

Assignment B.1

Try to know at least one person whom you do not know well who is in the long chain of people helping to get
your meal, or in maintaining living condition or in educating you, etc.

Get to know the person, his or her family, background, current state of thinking and well being. Submit a
write-up after one week from today. Can you ever repay? [For future: The Assignment may be kept open
beyond the Induction program. Encourage students to get to know one/two persons and their detailed
background. How do you feel for them? Can we ever repay? What best can we do for them?]

C Self and Body

C.1.1 Opening up Larger View

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