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NEW HORIZONS’

(RGMCET Hrudaya Spandana)

Volume-1 Issue-1 Year-2010-2011

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CONTENTS

1.Nature and Total Eradication of Fear 2.Talk by Dr.Vedaparayana.

3 .What Happened to that Mind.

4. Why do we Feel Lonely.

5.It’s Our Earth—not Yours or Mine.

6.I Don’t Believe that ------

7.Music is devine.

8.What is the root cause of AIDS

9.Understanding the Psychological and Academic Problems of

Students.

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Nature and Total eradication of Fear

On a fine morning Prabhakara Sastri sir took us to communication Skills Lab and played the video

‘Nature and Total Eradication of Fear’. It was a discussion between J.Krishnamurti and Dr.Anderson.

For 20 minutes we watched the video .First time we watched the video without any purpose but

attentively. Second time the same video was repeated. This time we paid attention to pronunciation,

Body language, expressions, feeling….. Especially, how J.K. feels a word.

Again the same was repeated but this time we have to watch the video with a purpose. The 60 students

are divided into 10 groups and each group should pay attention to a particular thing like

● Make 5 questions on the subject.

● Make 5 statements on the subject

● Recollect 10 words which impressed you and why?

● Pronounce 10 words the way the speaker pronounced

● Gather 10 words from the subject and write the other parts of speech of the words.

● Collect 5 words and write synonyms.

● Write the antonyms of 10 words which you heard.

● Collect 10 words and add suffixes and prefixes.

● Take any 10 words or sentences and show how the speaker used his body language to make

the audience understand.

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Write a milli of the talk.

Each group of 5 0r 6 will have to come to the Dias and present their findings. First group asked

questions and the other groups answered the questions. For the statements, the rest of the groups

prepared questions. The rest of the groups came and performed their tasks. At last the tenth group

prepared the milli of the talk.

The milli of the talk ● The theme is about fear, and responsibility of each one of us towards what is happening in

the world.● After million years also violence exists like killing each other, hating each other etc.

● Fear comes from our anxiety, psychological hurts, conflicts and one should be free from

this fear.

● Each one’s responsibility is to get into and look at the problems in our life and we have

speculated concepts to understand. From this initially we have to look into the

fundamental cycle of each one’s life.



● God is the stimulation to human beings. Various means of sensations are created because

of drugs and alcohols. To overcome these sensations one has to investigate and explore

one’s life.

● Fear is the thing that the human beings always face and the psychological structure has to

change. One should know what actually one needs.

● To have change in life everyone’s mind cells have to change but not external factors.

● Coin has pleasure and fear on either side. If we have pleasure we can’t see the fear as it is

the other side of the coin.

● Humans are pleasure loving because of God and gratification.

After going through this experiment we felt that we could listen to an

international Standard English which is very near to Indian pronunciation at the same

time very lucid and touching, more over the way the speaker tries to make his audience

understand him and take them with him in his journey. The commitment, the urge to

communicate and the sincere effort that was put to take the journey together wasobserved by the students. Listening to Dr. Anderson with a British native pronunciation

was a different experience to us.

Next few weeks we watched the videos like

‘What is Communication with others?’

‘The Art of Listening’

(EIE III Year Students)

***



As the first guest of the centre Dr. Vedaparayana, head of the

department of philosophy (retd) S.V. University, Tirupathi, was

invited. He spent a whole day with staff and students. The topicchosen for students’ discussion was

‘Education and the Significance of Life’

We shall try to present the talk in brief.

*The one who can accumulate lot of information, store in the memory and reproduce it

in a specified time at a specified place is said to be an intelligent person. This is called

education. The present education is treating the students as computers.

*If education is not tackling the problems of the world or the country, these problems

can never be solved. Can education resolve the division in human beings?

*Education has been progressing and has solved many problems but it could not solve

the human problems such as sense of insecurity, conflict, division, strafes, violence,

insurgency, terrosium, communalism ctc. Education has taken man to the extent of

creating human bombs. Biggest commerce in the world is weapons of all kinds.

*Human beings have been deeply programmed in many ways like caste, color, creed,

religion, nationality etc. Because of this programming in human beings there exist

terrible problems.

*Our knowledge and technology should be used to protect human life and not for

destroying it. Human being is not limited to the process of thinking. There is inner being

of the individual.

*There is a need for creating a new human being that is holistic human being. With all

the technology we are incomplete human beings. Holistic human being is the one who

has no identity. Now a days any kind of identity has no relevance. There are no sharp

boundaries any where except in our thinking, which is very dangerous. When one is

holistic, life becomes simple.

*We can not say that there is sharp difference between animals and human beings.

Some animals are more intelligent than human beings.



*How does wealth come?

By destroying nature! What is the use of wealth when there are no natural resources?

*How to co-exist peacefully for a long time! How to protect the natural resources and

hand over it to the next coming generation? Education and technology must see the

welfare of human beings, flora& fauna. We don’t have any right to destroy nature. We

are part of nature. Education should focus on this. Travelling from one planet to another

planet is important but at the same time we should be holistic. When we can not live

peacefully on this planet though we have been living here for such a long time then how

can we live on the other planet peacefully?

*There is possibility of being happy with out achieving any thing. Achievement cannot

give happiness. Love the thing that you are doing. Love the life. Love the subject. Then

there will be happiness.

*The true nature of human being is to be happy and peaceful. That is the natural state of

human beings. Education should make us good human beings, holy human beings who

are sensitive to all living and non living beings.

* As we are divided we are killing ourselves. We may have some accidental differences

but basically we are similar. Inwardly we are the same .We feel sad or happy by the

same thing. Sorrow, happiness, anger are common to all human beings.

*Mutual understanding and mutual happiness should be there. Don’t think that bygetting a job you will be happy. Don’t relate happiness and achievement. Love the work

you do.

* Education should create a human being who has an excellent behavior, who doesn’t

get hurt or hurt others. Even by gesture also we should not hurt others.

*80% of natural resources are consumed by the 20% 0f the rich and knowledgeable

people where as the rest of the 80% of the poor are allowed to enjoy the left over 20%

of the natural resources. Tremendous selfishness leads to such a thing .Without anydiscrimination we have to share every thing.

*Differences are not true but oneness is true.

Jyothi (EEE final year)

Soujanya (ECE final year)



WHAT HAPPENED TO ‘THAT MIND’?

*Who had discovered that the Earth is spherical in shape?

In RIGVEDA (1-33-8) it is said that

‘Chakranasah pareenaham pruthivya’which means ‘people who reside on the surface of

the Earth’s circumference.

In Aryabhattiyam, Golapada, 6th sloka, the renowned Indian astronomer Aryabhatta

(476 A.D.)had said

1.”Bhugolah Sarvotho Vruttah” which means that the earth is round from all sides.

2.”Chadhayathi Sasi Suryam Sasinam Mahathi cha Bhoochaya “ (Sloka 37) which

means when the moon shadows the Sun , Solar Eclipse occurs ; when the Earth

shadows the Moon Lunar eclipse occurs.

*Who had discovered laws of Gravitation?

In Pancha Siddanthi, 13th chapter, 4th Sloka, VARAHAMIHIRA (6th century A.D.) had

said

Gaganamupaiti Sikhi Sikhaa Kshiptamapi Kshithamupaithi Guru Kinchinth

It means that any one can experience that on any part of the Earth the flames of the fire

go up and the objects that are thrown up fall down.

*Who expressed first that the Earth moves around the Sun?

In RIGVEDA (3-5-59-1) It was said that

1. “Mitro dadhara Pruthavi Mutadhyam Mitrah Krustih”

It means that “The Sun, with his attracting force, is holding this Earth and the

other Celestial bodies”.

2.”Thrinabhi Chakra Majarama Narvam Yenemaa Vishwa Bhuvanani Tastuh”



( Rig-Veda 1.164.1). It means that “All the celestial bodies (planets) are moving

in ecliptical orbits.”

3.”Ayamgouh Prushneerakamit Asadan matharam purah

Pitharancha prayantsavah” (Rigveda10-189-1)

It means that the Moon being the sub-planet of the Earth, it is revolving around it’s

motherly planet the Earth and the Earth is revolving around it’s fatherly planet the Sun.

*Who is the world’s earliest surgeon?

SUSHRUTHA (500B.C.)

In Rig-Veda (1.116.14&15) Ashwini physicians fitted an artificial Iron leg to woman

warrior ‘Vischala’ and eye transplantation.

We find advanced level surgery in Sushrutha Samhitha.

‘Vinaya Pithika ‘, a Buddhist text reveals a brain surgery.

*Who did produce test tube babies first?

In Rig-Veda (7.33.13) Sage Agastya’s birth is not from mother’s womb. He was

fertilized in a pot. Drona’s birth also took place in the same manner.

*Who is the father of Botany?

Sage PARASARA in the first A.D. explained the structure of a plant cell in VRUKSHA

AYURVEDA.

*Who is the father of veterinary science?

SOLIHOTRA, who lived in 8th century B.C., wrote a famous text called “HAYA-

AYURVEDA”.

Even now in central Asia a veterinary physician is called ‘SALOTRI’

*Ancient Indian Mathematical gift to the modern world.

1. Decimal system was mentioned in YUJURVEDA SAMHITA, 17th chapter.

2.’Zero’ is the India’s richest contribution.



3. BRAHMA SPUTA SIDDANTA (620 A.D.) proves that any number divided by Zero

becomes infinity.

4. PYTHAGORAS THERAM is found in BANDHYANA SULAB SUTRAS (Chapter-

1-12- Slokas) which was written six hundred years before Pythagoras.

5. ARYABHATTA (5th century A.D.) in his ARYABHATTIAM (ch- 2-10) had

calculated Pi ( ) value as 3.1416.

* Advanced knowledge about Aeronautics

1. SAGE BHARADWAJA’S ‘Vimana Shasta’

2. The description of ‘OUSHPAKA VIMANA’ in Ramayana by Valmiki.

*Who postulated ‘Big Bang’ theory first?

Ancient Indian literature declares that this Universe had come out of the first breath of

God, the first explosion (Mahan Vispotanam) which is the modern BIG-BANG theory.

*Evolution Theory --- Ancient Indian perspective.

Ancient Indian evolution theory considers not only physical aspects of life but also

mental and spiritual dimensions of evolution.

“Jatyantara Parinamah Prakrutya Poorath “(Pathanjali Yoga Sutras-chaptar-4-sloka-2)

It means that internal nature is the main reason for evolution from one species to another

species.

*What is the Vedic Mind?

Samani va Akruthih Samanaa Hrudayaani vah

Samaana Masthu Vo Mano Yadhaavah Susahaasathi.

Let us live together, let us travel together, and let us speak with one voice,

Let us eat together, let us be together and let all of us have one mind.

*Personality Development .



A person who is

1. Free from ego and attachment while performing work.

2. The one who has clarity in the mind.

3. Ever enthusiastic and energetic.

4. Even minded in success and failure.

Such person is called an efficient personality.

(Bhagavad-Gita-18th chapter-26th sloka.)

* The Yogic Mind.

‘Samatvam Yoga Uchathe

Obtaining evenness of mind is Yoga.

Obtaining balance in life is Yoga.

Achieving work excellence is Yoga.(Bhagavad-Gita)

BUT……..

Why do our children by heart and memorize Kepler’s theory, Copernicus’

invention, Galileo’s discovery, Newton’s Laws of motion, Laws of Solar system,

Darwin’s evolution theory, Pythagoras theorem,

And so on..

WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT ‘MIND’?

That creative mind, that innovative mind, that innocent mind, that intelligent

mind, that silent mind, that meditative mind, that Vedic mind, that brahminic

mind, that yogic mind, that ancient mind, that religious mind, that cultural mind,

that humane mind, that leisurely mind, that spiritual mind, that holistic mind,…….

Now education should (educare) draw out ‘that mind’ to save the Universe

from terrorism, world wars, atmospheric pollution, food poisoning and the other

global threats.





Everyone encourage reaching the goal but no one shares children’s feelings .Hence the result is

loneliness.

As this is the age of nano families, combined family concept disappeared long ago and the senior

citizens as well as children feel lonely. Senior citizens are not allowed to live with children. So there is

no relationship.

In most of the cases sharing is economic sharing only. So sall relations are economic relations only.

Wife and husband, Teacher and student, doctor and patient, lawyer and client, parent and children….

All these relations remain at give and take level only.

When we come to social problems the have’s and have not’s cannot meet. The poor amongst the rich

and the rich amongst the poor feel lonely.

When it comes to religion, caste and other things, the untouchable and the totally orthodox feel lonely

because the untouchable is not allowed to mix with others and the pure orthodox eliminates himself

from the society. Both feel lonely.

The present scholastic life encourages competition. Those who compete with others can never share

their feelings with others. The one, who is topper in academics, can never be friendly with one and all.

He never shares anything with others. If he wants to remain topper for ever, he would remain lonely.

Teachers and parents compare students in their academic excellence. This comparison brings a

kind of grudge in them. They depart from each other.Comparision between students make them lonely.

Gender problems. Most of the time girls and boys cannot exchange their views and especially women

views are not regarded .so they feel lonely.

Loneliness is personal. Basically the ego problem makes people lonely. Identity crisis makes one feel

lonely. Misunderstanding between friends, high expectations, cheated by a girl/ boy friend,

superiority/inferiority complex, love failure, shyness, fear, narrow mindedness, not able to adapt to the

changes in the society, and lack of proper communication because of insufficient and inferior

language…. Many more problems are discussed.

At the end of the topic,

‘Comparison breeds competition, ambition’; ‘comparison prevents clarity’; ‘success and failure’; ‘Is

loneliness the same as aloneness?’; “Loneliness is depression: Aloneness is joy”.

From ‘What are you doing with your life’, by J.Krishnamurti, was read by most of the students.

‘Loneliness is depression: Aloneness is joy’

“After all, loneliness is a state of isolation, because the mind encloses itself and cuts itself away from

every relationship, from everything. In that states the mind knows loneliness and if, without

condemning it, the mind be aware and not create the escape, then surely that loneliness under goes a



transformation. The transformation might then be called “Aloneness” – It does not matter what word

you used. In that aloneness there is no fear…,.

Surely sirs, we must be alone, alone from all influences, from all compulsions, from all demands,

longings, hopes, so that the mind is no longer in the action of frustration. That aloneness is essential, it

is a religious thing. But the mind cannot come to it without understanding the whole problem of

loneliness. Most of us are lonely; all our activities are the activities of frustration. The happy man isnot a lonely man. Happiness is alone and the action of aloneness is entirely different from the activities

of loneliness.”

- J. Krishnamurti

It Is Our Earth, Not Yours or Mine.

At a very early age Leo Tolstoy lost his parents. He joined in the army and started his

writings. He had given a valuable suggestion to poets and writers. “Don’t write anything in which you have no interest unless it is a must.” His name is a permanent

signature in the world literature. His ‘War and Peace’ is the crown of his writings. His

heroin ‘NATASHA’ in ‘war and peace” is a dream girl to most of the literary stalwarts

all over the world.





Announcer: He could not hear any thing because he was totally deaf but understood with great

difficulty what the scientist said? Took the grain and felt it with his hands.

Old man: No….. I never sowed…. Nor reaped any like this in…. my….. Fields…. I did never buy or

sold such grains. The grains are as small as they are now…… but ask my father…. He may have heard

of such grains.

Scientist: Thank you very much old man. Sorry to trouble you.

Old man: Ahh…. What did he say?

Scientist: Please send your father.

(The old man leaves the place……lights off….lights on…..)

Announcer: Here comes the old man’s father. He walks on a crutch.

Scientist: My dear gentle man, could you please tell me where can we find such a grain?

Announcer: He could see better than his son. The old man’s father takes the grain and looks at it.

Scientist: My dear sir, can you tell us where corn like this used to grow? Have you ever bought like

this? Or sown any in your fields?

Gentle man: No…. I never sowed nor reaped any grain like this in my field. I never bought such grains

because money was not in use in our times.

Scientist: How could you manage with out money?

Gentle man: Every one grew his own corn. For sharing we had ‘Barter system’

Scientist: Barter system! What do you mean by Barter system?

Gentle man: It is simple. I grow corn, some one else grow vegetables. I give my corn to him and I take

their vegetables.

Scientist: Did you ever hear about such a big grain gentle man?

Gentle man: I never sowed such a big grain but ours was larger and yielded more flour than present

day grain.

Scientist: Gentle man! Can you suggest a person who has seen a grain like this?

Gentle man: I heard my father say that in his time, the grain grew larger and yielded more flour than

ours. You would better ask him.

Scientist: Thank you very much Gentle man. Can I see your father?



Announcer: here comes the father of this gentle man. Look how easily he walks.. Wow… what a

wonder!!! He could walk with out crutches. His eyes are clear he could see with out spectacles. He

could hear perfectly and distinctly.

Scientist: good evening gentle man. Could you please tell me what kind of grain it is!!

Announcer: The gentle man takes the grain turns it about in his hands and bites a piece of it and tastesit.

Gentle man: It is long since I saw such a fine grain. Yes, it is the same very kind.

Scientist: Tell me gentle man when and where was such corn grown? Have you ever bought any like

this? Have you ever sown any in your field?

Gentle man: corn like this used to grow every where in my time. I lived a corn like this in my young

days. I fed others with such corn. It was grain like this that we used to sow and reap and thrash.

Scientist: My dear gentle man, did you buy it any where or did you grow it all your self?

Gentle man: In my time no one thought of such a sin as buying or selling bread. We knew not money

each man had corn of his own.

Scientist: My dear sir, where was your field? Where did you grow corn like this?

Gentle man: My field was God’s earth. Where ever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free; it

was a thing no man can own.

Scientist: Then what was ones own?

Gentle man: Labor… Labor was the only thing man called their own. But now, we are buying andselling land. There are land grabbers, Land mafia. How foolish you are! How can you own land? Soil

is immortal and you are a mortal.

Scientist: Tell me gentle man, why did such seed use to spring up then and now it doesn’t?

Gentle man: My dear friend, would you like to know how your technology and science spoiled the

globe. See how your green revolution made the soil so poisonous.

COW AND BUFFALO

My dear friends we are really happy to feed you and your babies with our milk for the little grass and

shelter that you provide us. But you want us to produce more milk for commercial purpose. 30 to 50

liters of milk a day! How is it possible? But we are providing with out our knowledge. After the first

delivery we cannot go for the second because every day we are given ‘oxitone injections’. It is a

hormone that increases the production of milk. Yes, we are producing cans and cans of milk. But

Alas!! My friends…. the danger is that if you drink this milk, women loose the reproductive capacity,



monthly cycle is disturbed, uterus cancer is expected, in men impotency and hair fall is inevitable. My

friends, we pity you for your ambitious acts.

VEGETABLES (pumpkin, bottle guard, snake guard, bitter guard, brinjal)

My dear cow and buffalo,

Not only you, these commercial humans did not leave us also. They inject same oxytone

injection to us also.

Pumpkin: 10 years back I was 750 grams. But, now I am grown to 750 kilo grams.

Bottle guard: My original shape was round. But now I am growing 1 meter long.

Brinjal: I was 50 grams then, but now I am 5 kg.

Snake guard: Now I have grown taller than ever.

Pumpkin: so, the reason for our obesity is this oxitone injection. Friends if you eat us you too will

become like me.



MOTHER

My dear children,

I am subjected to ‘Lakanofobia’ which means fear of vegetables.

Recent study of center sector scheme on monitoring of pesticide residues at national level reveals that

by the time our vegetables come to our plate 15 to 20 times insecticides and pesticides are sprayed and

‘phorate’ pesticide tablets are spread in the fields. The band pesticides like chlordane, endrin, and

heptachlor and ethyl parathion are widely sprayed over tomatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, beans

and so on…. Residue of these pesticides in vegetables in India is 750 times more than that of other

countries. Alas..!! How can I feed my baby now….!! The residues of pesticides are found in my milk

also. Mother’s milk is also poisoned

.

Scientist: I am sorry to listen to this gentle man, tell me why your grand son walks on two crutches,

and your son on one crutch. But here you go with perfect ease. Your eyes are bright, your teeth are

strong and your speech plain and clear?



Gentle man: My dear friend, whole of my grand son’s body is filled with the residue of pesticides,

insecticides, chemicals and fertilizers. More over your cell phones, iPods spoiled his ears. Your

television and computer monitors spoiled his eye sight. As my son used, these things partially, so he is

better than my grand son.

Scientist: Gentle man, what remedy can you suggest?

Gentle man: There is a remedy. Here is my friend Prof. Bhaskara Rao from RGMCET. He tells you

how to use technology in right way.

Professor: My dear friends, it is not the fault of science and technology. It is the fault of the

government. It should educate the public before it takes science and technology to them. Now I shall

explain you

Agriculture is one of the prospective areas in which IT can effectively be applied particularly for the

social and economic development of the Indian agrarian community. The long term vision on‘Information Technology in Agriculture Sector’ is to bring farmers, researchers, scientists and

administrators together by establishing ‘Agriculture on-line’ through exchange of ideas/information.The indirect benefits of IT in empowering Indian farmer are significant and remain to be exploited.The Indian farmer urgently requires timely and reliable sources of information inputs for taking

decisions. At present, the farmer depends on trickling down of decision inputs from conventional

sources which are slow and unreliable. The changing environment faced by Indian farmers makesinformation not merely useful, but necessary to remain competitive.

Information technology provides answers to a number of questions to the farmers. For example, what

are the benefits of more irrigation? Is it cost-effective to apply additional chemicals? When is the besttime to sell crops or buy inputs? With improved record-keeping, more detailed cost analysis and more

sophisticated marketing strategies, farmers are making better decisions and earning higher profits.

IT helps producers monitor and respond to weather variability on a day-to-day basis. Solar-powered

weather stations in the field can be hooked up to a farmer's computer to relay information about currentair and soil temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, leaf wetness, soil moisture, day length, wind

speed and solar radiation. Producers use the Internet to monitor prices quickly and as often as they like.

Farmers from around the world can exchange ideas, post questions and get answers about specifictopics. It is viewed that future agricultural growth would be information driven.

Conclusion

It can be rightly stated that though Information Technology in the agriculture is in growing stage in the

Indian context. It has just started to spread its shoots, but with its immense potential to standardize and

regulate the agricultural processes and solve the problems, it is sure that IT will be one of the most

important areas in the near future for agricultural development.

Scientist: Gentle man; tell me how to make the soil more and more fertile….

Gentle man: Love the soil, it gives you every thing. Now a day’s man has ceased to live by his ownlabor. They have taken depending on the labor of others. In the old time, men lived according to

nature’s law. They had what was their own.

Professor: Yes, that’s absolutely true. Look at the work that some of our IT friends are doing atTimbuktu collectives.



The Collective has so far collected 28 varieties of rice, 31 varieties of millets, 18 varieties of pulses

and 7 varieties of oil seeds. It is now in the process of helping farmers become in-situ seed

conservationists and to maintain and propagate these varieties of seeds. The farmers who have taken up

the cultivation of millets and pulses notice that they do far better than other commercial crops in times

of drought.

It is our earth not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping each other, not destroying

each other. This is not some romantic nonsense but the actual fact. But man has divided the earth,hoping there by that in the particular he is going to find happiness, security, a sense of abiding comfort.

Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious

divisions, and establish a global relationship- psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the

outer- we shall go on with wars. If you harm others, if you kill others, whether in anger or byorganized murder which is called war, you, who are the rest of humanity, not a separate human being

fighting the rest of humanity, are destroying your selves.

- J.Krishnamurti.



SONG

Ye dharthi hamari.. aakash hamaara hai….

Nadiya hamari hai.. baadal hamaare hai..

Ye fiza hamari hai.. kirane hamari hai..

Pasu pakshiyon se bhare van bhi hamare hai…Harii bharii vasundhara… pyari hamari ye dhara..

Yahi hamara aashiya.. yahi hamara aasara..

Is dharthi maa ki godh me palthe rahoo…

Khilthe rahoo.. chalthe rahoo..

SAVE THE NATURE.. SAVE THE WORLD..

ISE BACHALO.. ISE SAVARO..

Hum phal rahe hai dharthi maa ki godh me sadaa…

Ham khil rahe hai dharthi maa ki aangan me sadhaa..

Milke phalenge hum.. milke khilenge hum..

Milke challenge hum.. milke jiyenge hum..

Ohhhh….Ooooo…. Ohhhh….Ooooo….

Kadam se kadam milayenge hum..

haatho me haath dalenge hum..

bhed bhaav sabh sare apne dil se duur bhagayenge…

miljulkar abh saath saath hum aage badthe jayenge..

purab hamara hai.. paschim hamara hai..

uthar dakshin dharthi kaa har kona hamara hai..

Harii bharii vasundhara… pyari hamari ye dhara..

Yahi hamara aashiya.. yahi hamara aasara..

Is dharthi maa ki godh me palthe rahoo…

Khilthe rahoo.. chalthe rahoo..

SAVE THE NATURE.. SAVE THE WORLD..

ISE BACHALO.. ISE SAVARO..



“I don’t believe that there is any ‘teaching’; there is only learning

and this is very important to understand”

Most of the participants attended for KFI gathering, Rishi valley, 2010, were Educationalists andteachers and of course from the other walks of life. Participants from educational institutions were in

search of some thing to know what makes Rishi valley a special place. It is unbelievable that this place

is in Rayalseema, a place of dry lands and barren fields.

The place is full of greenery. The tranquility of the place, the songs of birds, fresh air… the culture far

away from township …. Every thing is fascinating them.

Long walks in the early hours and late evenings made people more energetic. No “star” hotel food

equals Rishi valley food. What makes every thing so special….

May be the commitment, the love and affection, the care they have taken…. and the responsibility of every individual….

When every one was involved in serious discussion ‘protecting’ nature, the principal of Rishi valley

school coolly walked into the dormitory and switched off the lights as it was morning 7’o clock….

This year there was a special feature in the program. Regional language group discussions were

organized. Some of the teachers wanted to use this time for a discussion “On Education”. When

approached, the principal readily agreed for it and the discussion went on like this.

“Does this school run in the light of J. Krishnamuti’s teachings?” a friend questioned on behalf of the

rest.

“If you ask directly like that, it is difficult to answer” the principal responded.

“I am the principal of a big school. Except academic aspects, our children do not bother about any

other things” a participant probed.

“Parents want that and the children come to school for academics only”

“At least they do not pick up the bits of paper that are lying right in front of them”

“It wouldn’t work out because as long as we would like to be a ‘role model’ to them”

“Even if the child is inspired by us and starts picking up bits of papers, it is for becoming a ‘role

model’ to its juniors. So it doesn’t workout.”

“If we start picking up the bits of paper without any expectation, without any motto…. Then the child

may come to know our feeling for cleanliness and start doing it.

“It means that ….. Not the work that we do is important, but the mind behind that work is important”



“Even to plant a seedling or to assign gardening work, a lot of resistance occurs from parents ‘side”

“The reason for that might be…. The schools are the personal properties of the founders and the

parents may not like their children to labor for this”

“First of all in our schools, we promote competition for reaching the goal of marks and ranks. With

that competitive mind whether they grow trees or pick up bits of papers, there is calamity behind thatact “

“Schools like Rishi valley have no owners or ownership. Whether you plant a seedling or grow trees

on the campus, it happens as a part of living together: That is why the plant that is grown to a tree lives

here for ages”

“The fact is that… we start schools differently”

“Yes… that is right… here we have to refer the discussion that took place between Krishnamurti and

F.Grohe”

“Then he suddenly turned to Gisele and asked her, while pointing at me, He is the money. Would you

build a school without him? Gisele answered,” He isn’t only the money”. And Krishnamurti replied; I

know. I know.

Krishnamurti then turned to me and asked” Do you have the right teachers, the right

pupils and the right parents?”

At that time the scale fell from my eyes.” (The beauty of the mountain)

“But we do it exactly in the opposite way… first we advertise and get children and then according to

the strengths we look for teachers and accommodation”

“That is why; education in our schools is taking a reverse direction”

“Shall I talk a little here” Mr. Hanumantha Rao came forward.

Mr. Hanumatha Rao has been working in Rishi Valley School for the past four or five decades as

Telugu and Sanskrit pandit. He is Krishnaji’s contemporary. He is the one who has seen krishnamurti

and lived with krishnamurti for many years. He participated in many discussions. Not only that, he

translated Krishnamurti books into Telugu language. Mr. Hanumantha Rao continued….

“I hail from Elure in Andhra Pradesh. Then I used to work in a Govt school. I used to deal all the

subjects in those days. I was also dealing ninth class mathematics. First month I taught maths and

conducted maths examination. I evaluated the papers and distributed the answer sheets in the order of

merit.

When I was feeling that every thing is going as well…. One of the girl students started crying. The

reason was not known. I trembled in fear. The student is a girl student and the master is a male

one…..’What calamity might be fall on me’ was my terror…



At last on enquiry it was revealed that..that the girl stands first in the class every time but this time her

rank fell back from first to second because she scored half a mark less than the other one who stood in

the first rank…that was the reason for her cry out .

From then onwards when ever any examination was conducted, awarding of marks was as per the

previous records only. I used to award her first rank all the time. A friend who has seen my agony,

“You are a misfit in such a school. There is a right school for a person like you.” Declared and

referred Rishi Valley School.

In those days Elure public were not so elite. They knew not about the rest of the world. The only

another world they knew apart from Elure was the temple town Thirupathy. Board the train, straight

away go to Thirupathi and offer the prayers and return by the next train

No one knows the where abouts of Rishi Valley. How to reach the place is also unknown. Some how, I

got the address of Rishi Valley School and applied for the post of a teacher. Very soon I received an

interview call. I was promised to pay too and fro charges along with other expenditure. The principalgave instructions where to board a train, where to get down, where to take a bus and how to reach

Rishi Valley etc.

In those days there were steam trains. I don’t know how far I travelled …. But at last I reached Rishi

Valley. I was appointed as Telugu and Sanskrit teacher.

First day I went to the class. All the students were sitting and chit-chatting. When I entered the class no

one paid any attention. No one wished me. If it were our schools, as the teacher enters the class, all the

children stand up and say ‘good morning sir’, with a loud and singing tone. As I was accustomed to

that culture, this seemed foreign to me. How could they bring up children without any discipline?- was

my murmur and of courses I started my lesson.

No one knows whether they were paying attention to the lesson or not. All the students were sitting in

divergent positions. One of them was talking….I got angry and I shouted

‘Stand up on the bench’.

He stood up on the bench. Lesson was completed….Days rolled by….Children were divergent…When

I was sitting on the bench , students used to sit beside me .I was thinking that they had no fear, no

devotion, no respect towards elders.

If the children were too small, they used to sit in my lap. I could not comprehend any thing in the

beginning. But…no one taught me any thing. “You should behave like this”…”You should talk like

this”…”You should not do like this”…. “You should not behave like this” …No one taught me all

these things.

Slowly I started learning things on my own.



After a month, I begged pardon of the boy with whom I behaved rudely and asked him to stand up on

the bench. That boy casually said, “It is okay sir”.

If it was in Elur School, I would not have told sorry so easily. And, that boy would not have responded

so easily to say ‘It’s okay sir’.

What I want to say finally is …this atmosphere changed me. I could comprehend things without othersindulgence.

To be a teacher here, the eligibility is not possessing B.Ed; M.Ed; or Ph.D; degrees.

One should have abundant love and affection on children and the place. The ecstasy in living together,

learning by being with children, at most responsibility on the place where we live, undaunted

commitment over the work that we take up, with out any body’s request or suggestion, where ever you

are needed assisting there voluntarily, participating in games ,sports,

Dance, music…, not doing it for sake of doing…, but with total involvement and interest.

Like this I started learning every thing.

My journey in Rishi Valley School continued in this direction.”

Mr. Hanumantha Rao concluded his talk.

Some thing touched the hearts of the participants.

But one question haunted every one…..

When Mr. Hanumantha Rao landed here, the atmosphere here was so magnanimous that people could

get self- realization with out any effort!

How was that atmosphere created?

What was the specialty of that atmosphere?

People wanted to know’ that’.

So most of the participants bought the book

‘Rishi Valley School

The first Forty Years’

***



MUSIC IS DIVINE

ANUSHA SURYAS

(EEE.final year)

A workshop on ‘Learning communication skills, Soft skills and Team work by learning

and listening music’.

This program was organized by Mr. T .Thyagaraj, who belongs to the family of

musicians, the administrative officer of RGMCET, and Mr. N. Prabhakara Sastry, Soft

skills trainer, RGMCET, on5-2-2011.The excerpt of the symposium is given bellow.

Music is divine. It’s a universal language. It has universal appeal .Just with seven

letters the music world is created. How one utters these seven letters is important tomusic. How one feels a ‘word’ makes the lyric into different’ Ragas’.

When one has rhythm in the body, communication becomes very easy. Body

language and feelings go together. If one observes a singer while singing a song, one

can notice that the singer is not only singing with his or her vocal cords but also with

each and every cell of his or her body. If one can feel a word as the singer feels; the

stress, intonation, and melody of the speech comes out naturally. This is more important

in communication. Everyone knows ‘what to say’. They also should know ‘how to say’.

This one can learn by listening or learning music.

When one listens an instrument, one can not find the lyric but one feels the’

movement’. So feeling is beyond words.

Living and non-living beings respond to music equally. It is proved that cows give more

milk if at milking time cows have music and plants yield more produce if they are

brought up with music.

Psychologists believe that the left brain takes up all the science and the

technology; give and take; calculate and analyze but where as the activity of the right

brain is to share, to love, to show empathy and so on. Music appeals to the right brain. It

gives a happy release from a hard situation. A melodious music composition takes us

away from our daily sorrows. By listening good music one can renounce pettiness and

anxieties in life.



Good music gives us strength to face day to day problems in life. Music

inspires. Music invigorates. Music touches the source of energy.

A happy man is the one who can communicate very well. When one is happy, one

can invent communication skills and soft skills.

If one watches a music concert, one observes that, the team work that takes place

between the musicians working on different instruments though they do not have any

personal relationship except ‘music’, they perform it without any lapses. They are not

half hearted musicians. They are self disciplined.

Team is many voices with a single heart.

Then with the help of my mother I designed film songs which relate to human life cycle.

I sang all these songs and prabhakara Sastri sir related those songs to the life style of a

human being. I attempt to pen down those things here.

Anusha:- There are four stages in the life of a human being. Infancy, puberty,youth and

old age. When the fetus is in the mother’s womb, it starts learning. After birth every

child listens to mother’s lullaby. Here are such lullabies.

1. Jolammajola jejelajola…..

Neelalakannulaku Nityamallejola……

2. Laali…Laali ..laali…laali…

Vatapatrasaiki Varahalalaali…

Prabhakara sastry sir:-There is a great philosophy behind Mother’s lullaby. Through this

lullaby mother communicates “My dear child! Life is not a bed of roses. You have to

work hard. You have to labor to pave path to your future. If you sweat then only there is

happiness in your journey. Otherwise happiness is a mirage.”

Another mother says “My prettiest thing in the world….Do you know how you have totalk to people? Your words should be sweet and melodious. You can win the world if

you communicate well. Speak with out any fear or hesitation. What ever work you do in

future, you have to know how to communicate well. Be jovial. Make many friends with

your talkativeness. Only talkative people can survive in this world.”



Anusha:-Then the child grows and starts loving nature. It tries to develop relationship

with nature.

1. Akulo Akunai poovulo poovunai

Kommalo kommanai

Nunuletha Remmanai Ee adavi dagi poona…

P.S.Sir:- When one reaches the age of puberty every thing looks very mechanical.

School, home, teachers and parents…..every one drive children to some pattern or the

other. Then one feels like running away from this mechanical life and become one with

the nature. When you are with a leaf, be a leaf. When you are with a flower be a

flower…When you are with a stem… be a stem.. People those who run away from the

mechanical life for a few days at least can learn soft skills, communication skills and

team work effortlessly. But the book worms with excellent academic record have tolearn the things after completion of the course.

ANUSHA SURYAS: In the next stage ‘self’ is developed. Songs of patriotism, emotion,

revolution etc., is developed.

1. Padavoi bharteeyudaa….. aadi padavoi vijaya geethikaaa….

2. Nee dharmam nee sangham…. Nee desham nuv maravoddu….

P.S.SIR: From here the ‘I’ness goes to peak. I’m great… My family is great….

My education is great… Ego speaks out everything.

In this stage even if one watches a cricket match only ‘INDIA’ should win…. No rival

team should win or at least there should be no fours and sixes in rival team… but for

Indian team there should be only four’s and sixes.

ANUSHA SURYAS: The next stage is youth. It is a dream land. People try to float in

the air and sing songs like…

Ekkada Ekkada undo tarakaa…………

Naaloo… Ukkiri bikkiri uhalu repe gopika…

P.S.SIR: Yes.. This is a dream land. Every thing will be so attractive. The youth wants

to posses every thing that they desire. They think that they can do anything. Nothing

seems to be impossible for them. As for as you are in your own dream land, it will be

okay because it’s your own territory. No one can trespass into it. But the problem comes



when you want to make your imagination into reality. It is an abstraction. In fantasy

any one may get creative poetry, music, literature, songs, etc., but that’s not reality.

ANUSHA SURYAS: It doesn’t stop there. Some fall in love and the songs are…

1. Hrudayam yekkadunnadi……..

Nee chuttu ney tirugutunnadi……

2. Ye divilo virisina parijathamooo…..

Ye kavi lo virisina prema geethamoo…

P.S.SIR: “To fall in love” what an expression. Is it a well a river or an ocean to fall in..?

This word love has been abused among the youth.

ANUSHA SURYAS: If love fails.. people sing songs like….

1. Naa cheli rojave… naa lo unnavee….

Nine thalachane nenu……….

2. Akasha deshanaa Ashada masanna……..

Viriseti Ooo meghamaaa… virahamoo.., dahamoo..,

Meghasandesham…. Meghasandesham…..

P.S.SIR: Love has no end.. No beginning… Love can never be fruitful or futile. Love

knows no distraction. Love has no purpose. Love has no opposite. But our education

teaches us opposite of love is hate. We believe it. That is why when the purpose of love

is frustrated one goes for revenge. Love is a single page paper. It has no second page.

Just one loves. No comparison. No selection. No objective. No expectation. No

possessiveness. No gain or no loss. Just love. That’s all.

ANUSHA SURYAS: The next most important stage in life is marriage.

1. Pelli kala vachesinde balaaa……….Pallakini thechesinde balaaa…….

P.S.SIR:yes.. This is the most important turning point in life. Marriage is ‘to pair’, ‘to

yoke’ together. One should not look for job, dowry, status, money, power, position etc.,

what is important for a pair is like mindedness, passion in life and independence. This

brings the greatest responsibility in life.



ANUSHA SURYAS: Otherwise the pair’s life will be like this….

Pooruginti meenakshammanu chusaraaaa…

Valla ayana chese muddu muchata vinnaraaa………..

P.S.SIR: If the like mindedness is not there the couple starts comparing and contrastingwith others and getting frustrated. Then life becomes miserable.

ANUSHA SURYAS: As one journeys for two decades with all the responsibilities one

gets tired and the song…

Antharyami alasithi solasithi………

Nee sharanidhe jochhithinii…

P.S.SIR: After going through all the odds and evens of life one feels like retiring fromthe temporal world and take rest. At least at this age if one listens ‘The Antharyami’

one’s life is fulfilled… Otherwise conflict and frustration remains even at the end

also….

ANUSHA SURYAS: Dear friends this is how our work shop went on for two hours

and at the end we conducted ‘Talent Search’ in music. Many students took part in this

and exposed their talents. All of us departed with a ‘hum’ in the heart which remains for

a long period………

***



WHAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF AIDS?

Salman Nasir Jah( M.E. 3rd year)

Red Ribbon Club (RRC)of RGMCET organized an awareness camp on AIDS/HIV and

I happened to conduct the program . The district program manager and district ICTCsupervisor of health department, and Mr. N. Prabhakara Sastri, soft skills trainer from

RGMCET enlightened the students on this subject.

Mr. Sastri sir spoke on ‘What is the Root Cause of AIDS’ and here I give the

excerpts of his talk.

Today let us go deep into the matter. What is the root cause of HIV positive or AIDS?

Though it is necessary to know the prevention and the cure of this disease, one should

go to the root cause of it. At this age you are exposed to a world where every thing

looks so wonderful. Your media, your silver screen, your internet bring all the

information to your bed room itself. In this digital world every thing looks so fabulous.

Youth would like to experience every thing that comes to them by different sources.

Drugs, wine, sex …every thing tempts you. You are attracted towards it. You can not

stop yourself from them.

First of all our minds are infected with the thing that is going on around the world.

This infected mind would like to experience every thing that is available at hand. Mind

always carry the past experience and would like to have a better one and this thoughtitself is making human life miserable.

The kids struggle to experience the taste of chocolates or ice cream;

the youth is fond of experiencing sex,drugs,alcohol ctc.; some aspirants struggle for

philosophical experience ; devotees of God for the presence of God. Every time mind

struggles for a new experience. This unnatural search for bringing the abstract into

reality make people suffer a lot.

Sex in its natural way is not a problem. The thought of seeking happiness insex has become a problem. When ever man surrenders himself to the idea that he wants

to derive happiness in intercourse and it becomes a habit. When it becomes a habit, it

becomes a mechanical activity. So a new experience is required. So people try to change

the ‘object’ of happiness thinking that ‘that object’ has become stale. People forget that

happiness is subjective and not objective which means that happiness is there with in

them only and not in the object.



Sex has become a big problem only to human beings. For birds and animals it is

instinctive. It is so natural. Man is provoked by thought. As long as man is provoked by

thought through literature, films, media and Viagra, sex will be a big problem to human

beings.

Man has become so ambitious .He wants to grab every opportunity to‘experience’ every thing. He wants to accumulate everything. As long as man doesn’t

pay any attention to these thoughts senses become inactive. Admiring the beauty from

all corners of life has come to an end. For a common person sex is the only way to let

out emotions. That is why most of the business world is revolving around sex. In the

shade of sex most of the advertisements flourished.

As long as man responds according to instinctive feelings, AIDS is not a problem.

One should go to the root cause of this disease and be aware of it.

Then from the health department the two officers spoke and showed videos to

create awareness on HIV/ AIDS. I shall try to put down the main points.

*HIV is the virus that attacks the immune system

*This may not show any symptom for many years.

* This virus is the major cause for the death of people between 19& 25.

* The four stages of HIV are

a) Window (Period of infection)

b) Seroconversions – During this period a person may have flue like symptoms.

c) Symptom free period.

d)Final stage AIDS( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.)

Acquired:-One can get infected with it.

Immune deficiency:-Weakness in the body system that fights disease.

Syndrome:-A group of health problems that make up a disease.

● People who have HIV antibodies are called HIV positive.

● Being HIV positive is not the same as having AIDS

● Many people are HIV positive but don’t get sick for many years.



● One might get infected with HIV and later develop into AIDS.

● The blood, semen and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the

virus in it to infect other people.

● Most people get HIV virus

1) By having sex with infected persons

2) Sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with some one who is infected.

3) Being born when the mother is infected.

*HIV can not be transmitted by tears or saliva .But it is possible to get infected with

HIV in rare cases through deep kissing, especially if one has open sores in his or her

mouth or bleeding gums.

*CURE:- There is no cure for aids .There are drugs that can slow down the HIV virus

and there by slow down the damage of one’s immune system. There is no way to clear

the HIV out of one’s body.

*Finally they advised the youth to ask for HIV negative certificate before getting

married. This certificate is primary and all the other certificates are secondary.



“Understanding the psychological and academic problems of students”

● Dr.Krishna MohanDr. Krishna Mohan, a psychologist from Vishakhapatnam addressed the members of the staff of

RGMCET on 7/2/2011 on the topic of “Understanding the psychological and academic problems of

students”. Basically he touched physiological state of professors.

As human beings we are subjected to a number of psychological problems, social problems and family

problems. But when we arrive at college all those individual problems are to be set aside and work for

the benefit of our students.

The first beneficiaries of any institution should be the students. So what is good to them we have to

take into consideration. Our attitude in the class should be unbiased. With an enthusiastic mood the

professor should reach the student. Individual attention is to be paid.

The role of the professor must be of an elder brother rather than a policeman. Right guidelines should

be set for the students. So the professor must be open minded and ready to work with their students.

The best resource for a professor in the class is his students. Now a days there is no dearth for any

information. Lot of information is available in the internet. Just one has to browse.

Then what is necessary is to work together, to take the students with him in the journey of learning and

updating the relations with the students. Before we reach the students we have to be fresh minded.

Never target a particular student for setting a good example or for pointing out some thing wrong.

Students of this age group are very touchy. The young professors must take into consideration the

psychological status of students.

First we should understand our own psychology and then proceed. The second one is your students.

Neither they are in their teens nor in their youth.

It is a transitory period. A lot of psychological and physical changes occur at this age. Students of this

age live in an imaginary world. Everything looks so wonderful to them. The outside world is so

fascinating and our class rooms are so boring.

So all the time they look for a dreamland. The new biological changes in their body do not allow them

to sit in one place. Attraction between girls and boys is the biggest problem.

All that happens in their film world seem to be real to them. It is very difficult to convince them thatsilver screen world is different from real world.

Enjoyment is primary for them. That too this is technical education, everything is technical. The other

part like literature, history and spirituality is foreign to them. Students are in a big ambiguous state of

mind.



Then coming to the third point, the subject. All the subjects are technical subjects. Lot of development

will be taking place in the subjects. Professors have to update their knowledge everyday. You have to

walk with the same pace of technology. Otherwise you will fall back in information. Students may

learn advanced technology. If you don’t revise and add recent information in your class, your

professionalism may be looked down.

Every time one should be on toes to get the teaching to the level of our students. There may be of different levels of students. But you should pay attention to one and all.

Theory and practical should go together. They are not different. They are one and the same. If they

learn practically first and then theoretically next, they can comprehend easily.

Involvement of the student is more important. Suppose a particular student fails to understand a

particular concept, it means that he lacks fundamentals. So there you have to touch fundamentals.

You should take students into your fold and give them confidence that you together will travel in this

journey. Preparation for the forth-coming chapter should be announced one week in advance and while

dealing that chapter you should give a chance to students to supplement your teaching so that the class

room teaching does not become one-sided.

I think I’m also speaking one sided. I should learn something from you. Can anyone put forth your

observations?

Principal, RGMCET:- Sir, this has been my observation for the past decade that most of the students

coming from corporate institutions fall back and some of the students coming from rural background

fare better than the students from corporate colleges. Can you reason the state of mind in this fact?

Krishnamohan:-This is something strange… for the first time I’m listening this. This might be true. In

the corporate world everything is organized and someone or the other will be guiding, pressurising and

chasing. When they join in a technical college, they have to work independently and a lot of freedom

will be there. So they feel that they are saved from a burdensome work. The others with rural

background from the very beginning will be doing things in their own pace unsupervised and

unpressurised. So they continue their work on their own. When no one is supervising the students take

different ways to enjoy. They may be self-disciplined but these may be under the care of someone else.

This generally happens when sudden relaxation is given.

Question: Getting good marks in exams or understanding and applying the subject… which one would

you prefer?

Answer: Of course without understanding the subject whatever may be the percentage of marks it may

not be useful.

Question: But most of the engineering colleges are running behind pass percentage and personal score

of marks. They think that it is important.

Answer: We can’t say it is not important. It is .Because parents want it. So it is happening.



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