Q 3.
What do you mean by your natural
acceptance and experiential validation?
ANS. Natural acceptance is a mechanism of self
exploration. Self exploration is a method to explore our
self. Natural acceptance is process to understand our self
first. Natural acceptance implies unconditional and total
acceptance of the self, people and environment. It also
refers to the absence of any exception from others. In
other words, Natural acceptance is way to accept the good
things naturally. 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.
Q 4. Explain the process of self-exploration with a
diagram.
“Process of self exploration leads to realization and
understanding.” Explain with
example.
ANS. Self exploration is the process to find out what is
valuable to me by investigating within myself, what is right
for me, true for me, has to be judged within myself. Through
self exploration we get the value of our self. The process of self
exploration is a follows:
First of all we have to keep in mind that, Whatever is being
presented is a PROPOSAL.
Don’t assume it to be true immediately, nor reject it without
proper exploration.
Verify it in your own right, on the basis of it being naturally
acceptable to you, o Not just on the basis of scriptures
Not on the basis of equipment/instrument data
Not on the basis of the assertion by other human beings.
Therefore, it is essential to carefully ponder over these on
your own right. Neither accept these as true immediately nor
reject them prematurely without proper exploration.
Don’t just accept / reject these only on the basis of the following:
Because something like this/ different from this, has been mentioned
in scriptures,
Or, because it has been preached/ denied by some great men,
Or, a large number of people possess such a view / a different view,
Or it is claimed to have been verified through some physical
instrument or, claimed that this is beyond the domain of verifiability
by physical instruments.
Then what to do
Verify on the basis of your natural acceptance
Live accordingly to validate It experientially
If the proposal is true in behavior with human leads to mutual
happiness
If the proposal is true in work with rest of the nature leads to mutual
prosperity
Remember, it is a process of self- exploration, therefore, it has to be
authenticated by us
alone by means of verification at the level of natural acceptance and
experiential validation. The process is shown in the diagram below:
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.
Verify on the basis of your natural acceptance
Live accordingly to validate it experientially
If the proposal is true in behavior with human leads to mutual
happiness
If the proposal is true in work with rest of the nature leads
to prosperity
Results in realization and understanding
On having realization and understanding we get
o Assurance
o Satisfaction Universality (Applies to all 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
behavior.