hai friends...how are we...?
hope you enjoyed the previous mail on this topic and hope it was informative too...
now
read the mail at the bottom here from a psychologist...then the reply
above that...and then an appreciation mail from one of the psychologists
is on top...(when i typed 'bottom' i remembered a joke...in colleges we
have some young girl teachers and students attend their classes without
fail!!!...we had a teacher whose class all guys will attend without
fail but never listened to her lectures!!!!...two guys were obsessed
with that teacher and wanted to talk to her...one got an opportunity to
talk when she helped him in his project at a difficult time...he wanted
to use that chance and the other guy also joined with him...as usual the
english of our guys was
pathetic...both went to her with lots of stars in their eyes...the
first guy said 'mam, it was a great help that you gave and I thank you
from the bottom of my heart!'...the other guy was feeling restless and
added 'my bottom too!'...so all young girl teachers...beware!!!!)
now go ahead...
Your views are excellent. Kindly do sending this kind of views to enlight our social thinking process.
With regards
Ravindra Balaji
from: m ramasubramanian
to: indianpsychologists 16 may 12
Dear sir...
i agree with you that indian culture has its strength and we need to do lots of researches in the so called 'sacred' and untouched areas of life which affect our lives e.g spirituality. There is nothing which can not be touched by science. Depending on the number of variables or degree of abstractness researches may be difficult but not impossible. Psychology, as a science subject that deals with anything and every thing that concerns human beings, engulfs everything under the sky!!!
Prof G.S. Ghurye, i think he is regarded as the father of sociology in india, says very clearly that we can not avoid india becoming a multi cultural multi lingual society...we should not be surprised if the family of our grand children have significant people from different countries, religion, language, race etc as one family. Change is the only thing that does not change and ever permanent... We can not build iron wall and live inside like the way USSR lived. We know the result. We should be open minded and flexible to accept the good things from other cultures too across the world, why only American. After all the aim is to be happy, healthy and achieved, which is not possible if we are rigid in our personality traits to say only our culture is good and not that of others. A rigid person can never be happy, healthy, achieved and feel accepted!!!
We should not groom 'good' children but groom 'adaptable' children!..another wrong concept that we have in our society!!!...again wrong learning from social systems.
If we superficially look at the culture of america you might think it is baddddd!...while we analyse any issue we should go back to basics...the origin...what nature says etc...then we will get the truth.
I feel they are right in many aspects of life and living. So, we should not just imitate, but analyse, take only the 'suitable' aspects and apply. Nothing should be blindly followed whether it is Indian or any other culture. Then we are likely to deviate from the very purpose for which it was formed leading to incorrect end result with harm. These words and sentences can be amplified but will limit here to limit the length of the mail. Will touch upon it in different mails later.
All most all professors who taught me psychology at PSG arts and science said 'nothing is right or wrong in psychology'...they reiterated many times...i feel this is absolutely right...right or wrong remains only in our perception....also there is nothing good or bad as long as it gives us long lasting good health, happiness and helps us to achieve, while it helps others too to have these. Of course, if others feel due to wrong perceptions, it is their problem and not ours!!!
the great visionary and revolutionary poet bharathi said 'let us go all around the world to all corners and bring all good things to our country'...this includes culture also!
rigidity leads to isolation, rejection, unhappiness, bad health, unsocial, failures, no achievements, self pity and finally end of life to that individual. Flexibility leads to maturity, godliness, acceptance, popular, achievements, happiness, good health, longevity, holiness, and many more things!
rams
i agree with you that indian culture has its strength and we need to do lots of researches in the so called 'sacred' and untouched areas of life which affect our lives e.g spirituality. There is nothing which can not be touched by science. Depending on the number of variables or degree of abstractness researches may be difficult but not impossible. Psychology, as a science subject that deals with anything and every thing that concerns human beings, engulfs everything under the sky!!!
Prof G.S. Ghurye, i think he is regarded as the father of sociology in india, says very clearly that we can not avoid india becoming a multi cultural multi lingual society...we should not be surprised if the family of our grand children have significant people from different countries, religion, language, race etc as one family. Change is the only thing that does not change and ever permanent... We can not build iron wall and live inside like the way USSR lived. We know the result. We should be open minded and flexible to accept the good things from other cultures too across the world, why only American. After all the aim is to be happy, healthy and achieved, which is not possible if we are rigid in our personality traits to say only our culture is good and not that of others. A rigid person can never be happy, healthy, achieved and feel accepted!!!
We should not groom 'good' children but groom 'adaptable' children!..another wrong concept that we have in our society!!!...again wrong learning from social systems.
If we superficially look at the culture of america you might think it is baddddd!...while we analyse any issue we should go back to basics...the origin...what nature says etc...then we will get the truth.
I feel they are right in many aspects of life and living. So, we should not just imitate, but analyse, take only the 'suitable' aspects and apply. Nothing should be blindly followed whether it is Indian or any other culture. Then we are likely to deviate from the very purpose for which it was formed leading to incorrect end result with harm. These words and sentences can be amplified but will limit here to limit the length of the mail. Will touch upon it in different mails later.
All most all professors who taught me psychology at PSG arts and science said 'nothing is right or wrong in psychology'...they reiterated many times...i feel this is absolutely right...right or wrong remains only in our perception....also there is nothing good or bad as long as it gives us long lasting good health, happiness and helps us to achieve, while it helps others too to have these. Of course, if others feel due to wrong perceptions, it is their problem and not ours!!!
the great visionary and revolutionary poet bharathi said 'let us go all around the world to all corners and bring all good things to our country'...this includes culture also!
rigidity leads to isolation, rejection, unhappiness, bad health, unsocial, failures, no achievements, self pity and finally end of life to that individual. Flexibility leads to maturity, godliness, acceptance, popular, achievements, happiness, good health, longevity, holiness, and many more things!
rams
--- On Sat, 12/5/12, purandaran k. <kpurandaran@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: purandaran k. <kpurandaran@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [IndianPsychologists] Behaviour Analysis and Robotics
To: IndianPsychologists@yahoogroups.co.in
Date: Saturday, 12 May, 2012, 1:34 PM
Dear Ram
I agree with you about
your views on super computers, robotics, DNA, RNA, superpower bla bla. But
my question is why should Indians things like Americans and imitate them. Robotics,
submarine, nuclear power etc will give us power to win war, but our
own spirituality gives us power to win peace. We need to do research on
spirituality. Need to understand why only a few are getting attracted to it,
why some people resist, disbelieve, and why someone equate it with
superstition. Why do some people are not able to discriminate right teaching
from cheaters.
Instead of chanting the
glory of US and wealth (materialistic capitalism) why don’t we understand our
cultural treasury preserved and transferred to us by our forefathers? Our
strength lies in spirituality, it’s our competitive advantage. No one
can compete us on this. We should bank on our cultural strength.
With regards
K. Purandaran
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