Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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Self-understanding and Wor-ethics
129 depend on our ‘self and how we propose to enhance its basic thrust and mode of fulfilment.
(4.6) What kind of work-culture is available to our teachers? Work-culture refers to the following :
(a) (b)
the culture of the group with which one works regulations, administrative style of its office-bearers, opportunity for creative initiatives, general attitude of other groups to work within the school system. Physical facilities for effective work. Tradition of excellence and achievement developed by the school over years of dedicated performance. Its prestige and standing in the community:
(d)
(e)
(4.7) What kind of work-involvement is displayed by teachers? It depends on (a) whether the job is involving or non-involving; important or unimportant, motivating or unmotivating; trivial or fundamental; rewarding or unrewarding; essential or non-essential. Accordingly one may be identified with the work, attached or detached to it, bored or excited by it; integrated or non-integrated with it, satisfied or dissatisfied by it.
. (4.8) What kind of importance does work have in the overall context of the individual's life and various interestings? It could be ranging from a central place to the other extreme of an unavoidable drudgery or burden.
(4.9) We are now in a position to answer the question relating to the ethic of the teacher. Teaching, under this perspective, is more than a job or merely paid-work It carries with itself the challenge and the exitement of pursuing a deeply held commitment to one's own self as well as to the wide society. It is as elevating, liberating and fulfilling, as any of the human endeavours in a monastry ashram, temple, or field of acrifice for a cause. It can be a creative act of daily fulfilment, as one communicates successfully to the younger minds, information, attitude, excitement, sensibility, reflectness, and the reasonable temper for handling issues of public and private life. The teacher, in this work-ethics, becomes, an examplar, living and visible, of all that he considers worthy of transmission and emulation. In this role, he is the Guru, whose status is equivalent to that of God,
In this ethics; dedicated performace is its own reward; it is the path of selfless action and the path of knowledge in one. And as the another of the Mahabharata declared at the dawn of our civilizational phase, it is an ethics that can, and must be, pursued, in the daily context of our every-day life, with such resources as fall
January-March 1993