IITHE-Indian institute of technology for human excellence.
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Pure fun + divinity and moral values + technology = Blissful engineering students. How wonderful it would be if we learn technology with enjoyment and also using the same technology to learn art of living. This research paper will try to enrich the learning process by providing entirely new and innovative systematic methods (TECHNOFUN AND TECHNOADHYATMA) of learning/teaching that makes us to understand the concepts, enjoy the principles and assimilate the hidden divinity and moral values. .
This paper is like honey, a very rare nutritious food which has heavenly taste and a best known health accelerator. Similarly it is very rare to mix fun and human values with the learning process of engineering subjects. Such a rare effort is made in the following sections to strengthen the man making philosophy. The examples given here are related to electronics and computers however this technique can be used to various other branches or streams of education.
“Most of the Indian technical institutions have transformed into an industry producing engineers to cater the needs or to satisfy the demands of multinational companies.”
This was the keynote address delivered by our former president of India Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam at some technical institution. These powerful chains of words effortlessly remove the layer of the flower spread over the inability on our part to realize the responsibility of being a citizen of India or in higher sense our ignorance to human values.
“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.” Says swami Vivekananda. It is indeed doubtless that there should be a small orientation by technical institutions towards spirituality. The question is how to teach noble grand ideas and human values to engineering students whose eyes are fixed on the western countries and understands only one language that is technical language. Sections below make an endeavor to solve this problem in an innovative way.
In satyuga the aim of mankind was bhakti, in tretayuga it was on dharma, in dwaparayuga mankind’s aim was kshatriyaahood and in kaliyuga man’s important aim is to make money. Lust, anger, fame, greed etc are the tough competitors for the money but money manages to hold its place at the top by making humanity its slave.
Following points try to provide few possible reasons behind the lack of human touch
- rich peoples have become the ideal human beings for the society
- excessive influence of the western countries
- media exposing sugar coated cheap heroism to teenagers
- absence of sense of being citizen of India.etc
Technoadhyatma is a combination of two words viz technology and adhyatma, both are pure sciences, one is the science of the matter and other is the science of the non material aspect of human beings. Technoadhyatma is a one among such methodologies which tries to balance these to sciences for socio-economic development of the nation.
Technoadhyatma is an innovative method of teaching technology to engineering students. It’s a general law that people understand best if they are taught in accordance to their thinking mindsets. So this simple method involves expounding the spiritual aspects of the technology. As referred before most of the engineers understand only technical language hence technoadhyatma acts like a compiler (translator) which translates spiritual sciences into technical sciences. The training that we need to undergo to use this tehnoadhyatmic tool is to have proper practical knowledge of these two profound sciences.
AND gate: In this modern era the friendship between eastern and western countries has to play an important role in achieving worlds peace and prosperity. East should know from west how to live outside the house and west must learn from east how to live inside the house. So development cannot be achieved through either east or west alone, both have their own wonderful roles to reach completeness. Hence AND gate is used to signify that only if west and east both are active than only completeness can be realized.
OR gate: The various ways which lead towards the total evolution of human beings are scientifically classified into 4 paths. They are karma yoga (the yoga of action), jnana yoga (the yoga of pure knowledge), bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion, pure love), raja yoga (the yoga of self discipline and mind control). It is interesting to know that all of these paths lead to the same goal. Any one path or all or combinations of the paths can be chosen to reach supreme goal. This property is in accordance with OR gate.
∞ One of the best ever technoadhyatma teaching given by swami Vivekananda
Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise. How else could parents do their duties to their children, husbands to their wives, and vice versa? Do we not meet with cases of friction everyday in our lives? Duty is sweet only through love, and love shines in freedom alone.
Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1: 67
Thus these tools can be effectively used to accelerate the present learning process and give incredible socio-economic-spiritual upliftment. The institutions where these tools are used can be termed as Indian institute of technology for human excellence (IITHE) where technology is used to realize the best potential excellence hidden in each and every individual.