Practice Session: Harmony in Society

Current State – Society based on Domination, Exploitation

Assumptions (eg. Money is everything) Accumulation By Any Means Domination & Exploitation In Every Individual In few Individuals In Society Madness for Consumption mUekn Madness for Profit

Fragmented Society …

Madness for Sensual Pleasure mUekn Hkksx ykHk dke Terrorism War Mastery & Exploitation Over Nature Resource Depletion Pollution

Family?

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Survey 2002-2003

Itra

– 2300 population. Income is 2.58 cr/year just from Grain, Milk and Vegetables. As income increased, misuse of money increased. Expensive marriages…10 tractors, 50 motorcycles bought … most of them are idle

Gurah

– 2500 population. Mostly shuttering work. Monthly income is 9000; 3000 spent on liquor, gutka, gambling… competition to make pucca houses…

Sandila

– 2200 population. Spends Rs 8 Lakhs/year on gutka (equivalent to food for 1200-1300 people for 1 year) Is physical facility available in sufficient quantity?

Is there right utilization of available physical facility?

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As crops rot, millions go hungry in India – Reuters 2-July-2012

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.

It is an extraordinary paradox created by a rigid regime of subsidies for grain farmers, a woeful lack of storage facilities and an inefficient, corruption plagued public distribution system that fails millions of impoverished people.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/crops-rot-millions-hungry-india-031352121--finance.html

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Report – Available PF enough? Right Utilization of PF?

More than 1 billion tons of food lost or wasted every year, UN backed report finds (

11 May 2011

)

About a third of all the food produced for human consumption each year – or roughly 1.3 billion tons – is lost or wasted, according to a new

study

commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (

FAO

)

Food Production is 6 times requirement Food Wastage is 1/3 rd of production Wastage is enough to feed 1300 crore people/year

Have we understood right utilisation?

Is it a question of production?

Is it a question of relationship?

Is it a question of right understanding?

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38344&Cr=fao&Cr1 9

Hiware Bazaar

Watch the video "Hiware Bazaar" (23 Minutes) We will discuss your observations: 1. What is the goal of this village society? 2. What is the program followed by this village society?

3. Man influences society/system or man has to conform to society/system? Is there space in the current system for individuals to express themselves?

4. Reflect on your family goal, family program & participation of each member of your family 12

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Education-sanskar)

School Curriculum Liquor Shops Sanitation

1995

Defunct 22 Open defecation

2012

Curriculum has compulsory course on water management 32 students studying medicine in nearby colleges NIL 100% toilets No sweepers hired by village – all work done by residents 13

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Justice-Suraksha)

Families / Population Gram Sabha Forest Girl Children Diversity Collaboration Environment

1995

182 / ?

2012

235 / 1,250 93 families have returned Participative, Transparent Grazing domestic cattle on forest land. Trees cut for firewood 10 lakh trees planted 90% success rate. No grazing in forest – grow fodder instead. Babool trees in forest used to harvest gum Second daughters marriage expenses borne by gram panchyat Mosque made by community for only muslim family Community labour No cars used within village – and outside use car pools; use cycles within village (gram sabha 2008) 14

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Production-Work, Exchange-Storage)

Average Rainfall / Year Irrigated Area Water Conservation Wells / Water Level Crops Organic farming Milk Production / Day Per Capita Income / Month Families / Below BPL

1995

400 mm

2012

400 mm (190 mm in 2010) 20 hectares / 976 hectares 70 hectares / 976 hectares 90 / 80-125 ft Included sugarcane 150 liters 52 earthen bunds, 2 percolation tanks, 32 stone bunds, 9 check dams.

Tubewell only for drinking water, not for agriculture 294 / 15-40 ft Maize, jowar, bajra , onions, potatoes… planned after monthly water availability assessment. Now sugarcane is restricted to ½ acre & only for fodder 20% chemical fertilisers 100% organic soon  plan to go 4,000 liters 830 30,000 (60 millionaires) 168 3 (Hiware Bazar puts it at12) 15

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Health-Sanyam)

Primary Health

1995 2012

Open, transparent 16

“I took 21 years to transform my village. Now I have zipped the strategy to take just 2 years. With community participation, we can create a new era of rural change” Popatrao Pawar, Deputy Sarpanch 2012

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This is a very good example of what people can do together (there is still a lot of space for good work in the current system)!

After 21 Years… Hiware Bazaar Today (November 2012)  250-300 people visit Hiware Bazaar every day  Popat Rao Pawar has been made State minister, Chairman of Maharashtra's Model Village Programme  He has been given charge of 100 villages – to implement similar model Contacts: Mohan Habib Sayyed (works on village water management) 18

Kuthambakkam Village, near Chennai

Study the village cluster with Kuthambakkam as the nodal village. This is after 15 Years of working together… Kuthambakkam Today (Feb 2012) Working with 740 panchayats in 2012. Active projects with about 50 panchayats (there are about 2.75 lakh panchayats in India) Elango Ramaswamy, Ashoka Fellow, Trust for Self Governance & Ex. Sarpanch of Kuthambakkam Gram Panchayat, Kuthambakkam, Poonamallee Block, Thiruvallur District TN 600124 Phone: Email: Web Site: +91 44 2681 1247, +91 99406 82201 [email protected]

http://www.modelvillageindia.org.in

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Goals

1. Network Economy -

concentrate on Prosperity creation rather than poverty eradication

. More than 80% of village consumption can be met through value-addition done to the local produce. The remaining can be supplied by village trade groups (This initiative will focus on evolving self-dependent economy in the rural areas rather than worry about their place in the global market).     Assured and Sustainable employment Access and Food Security Developing Collective Entrepreneurship Conserve energy

2. Decentralise

– Continue strengthening panchayats by sharing and learning best practices among panchayats to enable them to function as Local Self Governments to establish self reliant villages (Facilitated by the Panchayat Raj system, these efforts will have a ripple effect) 20

Gram Panchayat (Village Governance) A few hundred years back, India was held together through strong community leadership and community based actions... they created and sustained community based infrastructure, governance and trade.

The people governing themselves would truly bring democracy to the grass-roots and take a mighty step towards reviving the village economy to its past glory It would build within them confidence in their ability and pride in their locality A strong local governance will ensure the success of every national plan

A network may contain 20-25 villages and a population of 50,000 60,000 people – a sustainable economic zone

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Network Villages

Nucleus village

Surplus production Network village #5

Production for local consumption

Network village #4 Network village #1 Surplus production for outside consumption and buying services and products Network village #3 Network village #2

Network Village Economy - self sustaining economy zone

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Village Network Economy

Money economy does not report real values...the value of a rupee is different in different hands...what might be food for 4-5 days in the poor man's hands is the price of a cigar for the rich man J.C.Kumarappa

The network villages share their produce between themselves and supplement each others' production and processing What is produced in excess is sent to outside world - other village clusters or towns for money power which in turn can buy products and services not available in the village 23

Initial Results: Occupation

Occupation Groups - Before Farming 35% Artisans and Skill based 15% Occupation Groups - Network Economy Have Nots 50% Farming 35% Artisans and Skill based 15% Local Producers 35% Skilled Labour 15%

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Progress - Transformation

1

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING

(

le>

)

in the self

Human Conciousness

ekuo psruk

SSSS

2

RELATIONSHIPS (

laca/k

) with human beings MUTUAL HAPPINESS

(

mHk; lq[k

)

3

PHYSICAL FACILITIES (

lqfo/kk

) with rest of nature

SSDD SVDD Animal Conciousness

tho psruk MUTUAL PROSPERITY

(

mHk; le`f)

)

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Human Society – Society based on Relationship, Co-existence

Human Target – As an Individual Human Target – As a Family 1. Justice 2. Prosperity 3. Participate in Human Society Human Target – As a Society Integrated Society 27

Undivided Family, Universal Human Order

Human Target (

ekuo y{;

)

Right Understanding & Right Feelings 1 Prosperity 2 Fearlessness (Trust) 3 In Every Individual 1 In Every Family 2 In Society 3 Co-Existence 4 In Nature/ Existence 4

Human Order ¼

ekuoh; O;oLFkk

½ Five Dimensions

¼i¡kp vk;ke½ – Societal Order in which fulfillment of the Human Target is ensured 1. Education – Sanskar 1 2. Health – Sanyam 3. Production – Work 2 4. Justice – Suraksha 5. Exchange – Storage 2 4 4 3 In such a Societal Order, every human being lives with happiness & prosperity; and there is an assurance of its continuity 29

Dynamic Relationship between Individual & Family… Society

Sanskar (t), Environment (t), Self-exploration (t) 

Sanskar (t+1)

1. Education-sanskar 2. Environment / Tradition 1. Participation in larger order

Family environment / tradition

= ∑ Sanskar (all family members) a) Understanding, Feelings & Thought b) Physical Facility Participation = Understanding goal (individual + family) & Effort for it's fulfillment Participation includes effort for getting rid of problems or incompleteness [what’s missing + solution +

my role in the solution

] 2 key outputs – 1. Own sanskar / understanding & realisation 2. Environment / tradition at level of family… society 30

Responsibility, Participation

Individual: Responsibility, Swatantrata  Participation in larger order Happiness Family of Such Individuals: More people  Less effort per person Responsible Family  Happiness & Prosperity Participation (10 x 10%); undivided family … Society:  Continuity of Happiness & Prosperity

Relationship, Undivided Society Universal Human Order

Irresponsibility, Expectation

Individual: Irresponsibility, Partantrata  Expectation from larger order Unhappiness Family of Such Individuals: More people  More effort per person Irresponsible Family  Unhappiness & Deprivation Expectations; fragmented family … Society:  Unhappiness & Deprivation

Domination, Fragmented Society Inhuman Governance

Indiv – Family – Family cluster – Village – Village cluster – Nation – World Family

10 1 ~ 10 1 ~ 10 2 ~ 10 10

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Responsibility & Participation

Individual takes responsibility for most of his needs

, passes on rest (abt 10%) to be fulfilled by larger order (swayam mein vyavastha) &

Is actively participating in larger order

(badi vyavastha mein bhagidari) 10 such individuals  next larger order has 10 x 10% to fulfill - It is a managable load for the larger order. Enrichment of people is possible - Relationship or dominance, both options are available to the larger order. Depending on level of understanding, one mode is predominant - Individual is happy & engages more with larger order - Individual is able to see that he has been responsible and active in participation. This is fulfilling for him - In the state of fulfillment, he is able to rightly evaluate himself & make plan for further self-development - Fulfilled individual is able to help others in understanding & living accordingly 32

Lack of Responsibility &/or Lack of Participation

Individual takes responsibility for very few of his needs

, passes on rest to be fulfilled by larger order (swayam mein a-vyavastha) &/or

Is not actively participating in larger order

(badi vyavastha mein bhagidari nahin) - it is an overload for the larger order. 10-100 people have to be exploited directly/indirectly to work for each indulgent person - dominance remains only option for the larger order & it is also the prevalent mode. Dominance is not naturally acceptable - Individual is unfulfilled & complains about the larger order - Individual is not able to see that his unhappiness is due to his own irresponsibility &/or lack of participation - Without seeing his own connection to his unhappiness, he is also not able to make any plan for fulfillment through self-development (continues to assume I am OK, problem is outside with others & the system) - Unfulfilled individual tries to run away/escape from this, by way of more sensation, more accumulation of physical facility… 33

Indulgence (Bhog)

Use is primarily for getting sensation / taste (aswadan) Consumption, accum. of physical facility for sensation/taste Other is -Means of sensation -Means of feeling -Resource for physical facility

Exploitation of

-Human being (10-100

people need to work for 1 indulgent person)

-Nature

Abstinence (Tyag)

Minimise usage of physical facility Abstain from use of physical facility or sensation / taste Renunciation of relationship Little interaction with -Human being -Nature

Right Utilisation (Sadupyog)

Use based on purpose/property (& then taste) Prosperity 1. Recognising need 2. Fulfillment of need Other is like me Feeling is important In the relationship

Enrichment of

-Human being

(responsibility & participation)

-Nature 34

Undivided Family, Universal Human Order

Human Target (

ekuo y{;

)

Right Understanding & Right Feelings 1 Prosperity 2 Fearlessness (Trust) 3 In Every Individual 1 In Every Family 2 In Society 3 Co-Existence 4 In Nature/ Existence 4

Human Order ¼

ekuoh; O;oLFkk

½ Five Dimensions

¼i¡kp vk;ke½ – Societal Order in which fulfillment of the Human Target is ensured 1. Education – Sanskar 1 2. Health – Sanyam 3. Production – Work 2 4. Justice – Suraksha 5. Exchange – Storage 2 4 4 3 In such a Societal Order, every human being lives with happiness & prosperity; and there is an assurance of its continuity 36

Indicators of Net Achievement (Individual, Family, Society…)

1. Index of Understanding

: % of Population with Right Understanding e.g. % individuals who live with solution & response (who facilitate right understanding & relationship in others) vs problem & reaction (who are mostly talking about problems, get irritated, angry or quarrel)

2. Index of Prosperity

: % of Prosperous Families e.g. families that have recognised their need for physical facility and produce/have more than their need

3. Index of Fearlessness (Trust)

: % of People one has Trust on Intention – Unconditionally, Continuously

4. Index of Sustainability (Co-existence)

: Enrichment of Nature e.g. Air Quality, Water Table, Water Quality, Average Annual Improvement of Soil Quality, Definiteness in Weather 37

The problem is not The problem is – the incorrect actions of bad people – the inactivity of the good people 39

Starting Point… Individual… Followed by Family… Society…

1. Understand Your Natural Acceptance 2. Live in accordance with it 3. Participate in Larger Order

Swatva Swatantrata Swarajya

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