Karunya University Value Education Notes

Karunya University
(Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences)

Declared as Deemed to be University under Sec. 3 of the UGC Act, 1956
Karunya Nagar, COIMBATORE – 641 114
DEPARTMENT OF VALUE EDUCATION
12VE 301
VALUE EDUCATION
NOTES
Department of Value Education, Karunya University, Coimbatore Page 1

DEPARTMENT OF VALUE EDUCATION
SYLLABUS FOR 12VE301 (GENERAL)
CREDITS: 2:0:0 UNIT I
VISION CENTERED LIFE
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Values of Life: Meaning, Need for Values,
 To appreciate and keep in mind the
Importance of Values, Components of
vision of Karunya University and be
Values, Six principles for Purpose Driven
passionate to transfer it worldwide.
Life. Parables for Life.
 To have an in-depth understanding of the
Mission of Karunya: Karunya History,
meaning of life from God’s perspective,
Biography of Dr. D.G.S Dhinakaran,
and learn ways to accept challenges of
Struggles and Challenges, Vision and
life.
Mission of Karunya, Facets of Jesus Calls
 To enrich the human capacity of Ministry.
thinking and lead a Principle centered
life thus serving mankind through Transmitting the Mission: Human
innovative methods to make the world a Response to Humanitarian Need –
better place. Understanding the Human Needs and Pain,
Dedicating to Solve Problems of Humanity,
COURSE OUTCOME: Finding Solutions to Problems related to
Food, Water, Health Care and Energy.
 Students will emerge as World Class
Leaders who will be agents of change Revelations for Humanity: God the True
and influence with sensitivity to the Creator, Greatest and Smallest Creations,
crying needs of the society such as God’s Master Piece, Creation Exploited,
ungodliness, corruption, poverty, and The Potentiality of Man’s Innovations to
suffering and play a leading role in Solve Problems of Humanity through Divine
eradicating these. Revelations.
 The capacity of students to make UNIT II

intellectually mature, morally upright, GOD CENTERED LIFE
ethically correct and spiritually inspired
decisions will be enhanced and God’s View of Life: Life is Test, Life is
sharpened. Trust, and Life is a Temporary Assignment.
 Students will be top class professionals Setbacks in Life: Lust of Flesh, Lust of
with a correct balance between Eyes, Pride of Life – Consequences and
professional excellence and social Principles to Overcome.
commitment so that they play a crucial
role in building a better Nation with Sacredness in Life: Visible and Invisible
Divine grace and power. Life, Vitality of Sacredness in Life,
Eradication of Worries, Benefits of God’s
Blessings, Purity of Thought and Deed,
Love and Compassion.

Heroes of Faith: George Muller, William Work Place Relationship: Working for
Carey, Mother Theresa, Ida Scudder. God, Relationship with Authorities and
Coworkers, Challenges at Work, Love of
Money – Habit of Giving.
UNIT III
CHARACTER FOCUSED LIFE
UNIT V
Introduction: Definition, Character Values, VICTORIOUS LIVING
Character Development, Results of having a
Good Character, Pillars of Character. Emerging as Leaders: Definition,
Meaning, Seven Principles of Leadership,
Inner Life Integrity: Integrity Check – and Qualities of a Good Leader.
Integrity of Heart, Self Centered Personality,
God Centered Personality, Dealing with Foundation for Success: Meaning,
Ego. Qualities that make a Person Successful,
Overcoming Obstacles for Success.
Character Study: Life study of Daniel,
Joseph, Esther– their Zeal and Passion to Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without Work,
Serve the Lord. Pleasure without Conscience, Knowledge
without Character, Commerce without
Cultivating Character: Being the Salt of Morality, Science without Humanity,
the Earth, Light of the World – Being Religion without Sacrifice, Politics without
Faithful in Little Things. Accountability in Principle.
Living.
Seven Top Behaviors for Effective Living:
Attitude, Unleashing your Power, Focus
UNIT IV precedes Success; The Best Results take
RELATIONSHIPS IN LIFE Time, Patience, Humility, Art of Sowing
and Reaping.
Building Relationship: Importance & Need
for Relationship, Issues that Hinder Reference Books:
Relationship, Ways to Improve
Relationship, Dealing with emotions in 1. Rick Warren. (2002)Purpose Driven
relationship, Celebrating Relationship. Life, Zondervan, Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
Marriage and Relationship: Definition,
Purpose, Principles for Successful marriage, 2. Valentine Davidar. (2000), Being Made
Selecting the Life Partner, God’s Will in whole, Hyderabad: Haggai Institute.
Marriage, Boundaries of Sex.
3. C. Maxwell John. (2001). Power of
Love & Friendship: Types of Love, Leadership, USA: River Oak Publishing.
World’s View about Love, Conditional
Versus Unconditional love, The Father’s 4. Khera Shiv. (2003). Living With
(God’s) Love. Importance of Friendship – Honour, New Delhi: Mac Millan India
Qualities of Friendship – The True Friend Limited.
(God) – Being a Good Samaritan

KARUNYA UNIVERSITY
(Established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)
DEPARTMENT OF VALUE EDUCATION (DOVE)
Lecture Plan – 12VE301
Value Education
Faculty Name: Credit: 2:0:0
Page Date/
L.NO Topics to be covered
No Hour
UNIT I
Values of Life: Meaning, Need for Values, Importance of Values,

L.1 Components of Values, Six principles for Purpose Driven Life. Parables
for Life.
Mission of Karunya: Karunya History, Biography of Dr. D.G.S

L.2 Dhinakaran, Struggles and Challenges, Vision and Mission of Karunya,
Facets of Jesus Calls Ministry.
Transmitting the Mission: Human Response to Humanitarian Need –

L.3 Understanding the Human Needs and Pain, Dedicating to Solve
Problems of Humanity
Transmitting the Mission: Finding Solutions to Problems related to

L.4
Food, Water, Health Care and Energy
Revelations for Humanity: God the True Creator, Greatest and Smallest
Creations, God’s Master Piece, Creation Exploited, The Potentiality of
L.5
Man’s Innovations to Solve Problems of Humanity through Divine
Revelations.
L.6 Discussion/Activity
UNIT II
God’s View of Life: Life is Test, Life is Trust, and Life is a Temporary
L.7
Assignment.
Setbacks in Life: Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes, Pride of Life –

L.8
Consequences and Principles to Overcome.

Sacredness in Life: Visible and Invisible Life, Vitality of Sacredness in
L.9
Life, Eradication of Worries, Benefits of God’s Blessings
Sacredness in Life: Purity of Thought and Deed, Love and Compassion.

L.10
Heroes of Faith: George Muller
L.11 Heroes of Faith: William Carey, Mother Theresa, Ida Scudder.
UNIT III
Introduction: Definition, Character Values, Character Development,

L.13
Results of having a Good Character, Pillars of Character
L.14 Inner Life Integrity: Integrity Check – Integrity of Heart.
Inner Life Integrity: Self Centered Personality, God Centered

L.15
Personality, Dealing with Ego.
Character Study: Life study of Daniel, Joseph, Esther– their Zeal and
L.16
Passion to Serve the Lord
Cultivating Character: Being the Salt of the Earth, Light of the World –
L.17
Being Faithful in Little Things. Accountability in Living.
UNIT IV
Building Relationship: Importance & Need for Relationship, Issues that

L.19
Hinder Relationship, Ways to Improve Relationship, Dealing with
emotions in relationship, Celebrating Relationship.

Marriage and Relationship: Definition, Purpose, Principles for
L.20 Successful marriage, Selecting the Life Partner, God’s Will in Marriage,
Boundaries of Sex.
Love & Friendship: Types of Love, World’s View about Love,

L.21
Conditional Versus Unconditional love, The Father’s (God’s) Love.
Love & Friendship: Importance of Friendship – Qualities of Friendship

L.22
– The True Friend (God) – Being a Good Samaritan
Work Place Relationship: Working for God, Relationship with

L.23 Authorities and Coworkers, Challenges at Work, Love of Money – Habit
of Giving.
UNIT V
Emerging as Leaders: Definition, Meaning, Seven Principles of

L.25
Leadership, and Qualities of a Good Leader.
Foundation for Success: Meaning, Qualities that make a Person

L.26
Successful, Overcoming Obstacles for Success.
Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience,

L.27
Knowledge without Character, Commerce without Morality.
L.28 Seven Deadly Sins: Science without Humanity, Religion without

Sacrifice, Politics without Principle.
Seven Top Behaviors for Effective Living: Attitude, Unleashing your

L.29 Power, Focus precedes Success; The Best Results take Time, Patience,
Humility, Art of Sowing and Reaping.

KARUNYA UNIVERSITY
(Established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)
Karunya Nagar, Coimbatore – 641 114
DEPARTMENT OF VALUE EDUCATION (DOVE)
DETAILS OF THE NOTES PREPARATION – 12VE301 (PG)
Cha
pter Units Prepared By Sign Edited By Sign
No
UNIT I
1 Values of Life Mrs. Deepa Philip
2 Mission of Karunya Mrs. B. Paulin Ebenezer
3 Transmitting the Mission Mrs. Priscilla Manuel
4 Revelations for Humanity Ms. Aruna Prasad
UNIT II
1 God’s view of Life Mrs. Priscilla Manuel
2 Setbacks in Life Mrs. B.Paulin Ebenezer
3 Sacredness in Life Mrs. Deepa Philip &

Mrs. Priscilla Manuel
4 Heroes of Faith Mr. A.J. Abraham Isaac
UNIT III
1 Character Mr. A.J. Abraham Isaac
2 Inner Life Integrity Mrs. B. Paulin Ebenezer

3 Character Study Ms. Aruna Prasad
4 Cultivating Character Mr. Philip L. Timothy
UNIT IV
1 Building Relationship Mr. Surya Kumar
Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

2 Marriage and Relationship
Mr. Philip L. Timothy
3 Love & Friendship Mrs. Jerylene Priyadarshini
4 Work Place Relationship Mrs. Jerylene Priyadarshini
UNIT V
1 Emerging as Leaders Mr. A.J. Abraham Isaac
2 Foundation for Success Mrs. Priscilla Manuel
3 Seven Deadly Sins Mrs. Priscilla Manuel
Seven Top Behaviors for Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

4
Effective Living
Compiled by: Mrs. B. Paulin Ebenezer

UNIT - I
 Values in Life
 Mission of Karunya
 Transmitting the Mission
 Revelations for Humanity

INTRODUCTION TO VALUE EDUCATION CHAPTER I
CONTENTS:
 Introduction
 What is Value Education
 Need for Value Based Education
 Importance of Values
 Components of Values
 Seven Principles of Purpose – Based life
 Parables of Life
 Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
Value education is a term used to name several things, and there is much academic controversy
surrounding it. Some regard it as all aspects of the process by which teachers (and other adults)
transmit value to pupil. Others see it as an activity that can take place in any organization during
which people are assisted by others, who may be older, in a position of authority or are more
experienced, to make clear those value principals their own behavior.
There two main approaches to value education. One is to inculcate or transmit a set of values
which often come from communal or religious rules or cultural ethics. And the other is a type of
Socratic dialogue where people are gradually brought to their own realization of what is good
behavior for themselves and their community. Value education also leads to success and it has
value of hard work. It is believed that education not only imparts knowledge and skills but also
the right values and attitudes, which lead to, balanced human formation.
WHAT IS VALUE EDUCATION?

Value Education is the education that addresses questions like -How to live life well? How to
find happiness? How to make others happy? How to manage all kinds of people and happenings?
How to grow and succeed in the right manner?
NEED FOR VALUE BASED EDUCATION:

 To understand who we are
 To understand who God is
 To understand what God has prepared for us
 To understand the purpose of life
 To develop better communication with God
 To develop better communication with people
 To prepare ourselves as successful human beings
 To encourage value based individual behavior, public policies and social interaction in
life

IMPORTANCE OF VALUES
Even during good times, the fine things in life like a high reputation, fame and money can make
a person arrogant. Unless a person knows how to use money and power in the right manner,
these very things will destroy him or her. So even if you have much talent, wealth, power or
fame when you grow up, you must learn to use them well and give yourself and others happiness
and need to live a life of values.
According to Father of Indian Nation M. K. Gandhi

"If wealth is lost nothing is lost"
"If health is lost something is lost"
"If character is lost everything is lost"
Best of all things is character.
Every one knows that life is precious – that life is important. We all protect our life because we
care for it more than anything else. If life is so important, the values of life are even more
important. Values are guiding principles, or standards of behaviour which are regarded desirable,
important and held in high esteem by a particular society in which a person lives.
Our values are a reflection of our spirituality; our character.

One of the “CHINESE PROVERBS” goes like this:
"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character, if there is beauty in
character, there will be harmony in the home, when there is harmony in the home, there will be
order in the nation, when there is order in the nation there will be peace in the world".
A person with proper values will not be afraid to face problems. He or she will expect and accept
them as part of life. He or she will have complete faith in God. Such a person will be an example
to the rest.
Last but not the least we must love our own values in life, to build a strong character. It will help
us to lead our life as it should be lead. It is very necessary for the fulfillment of life’s purpose.
'"LET NOBLE THOUGHTS COME TO ME FROM ALL DIRECTIONS".
COMPONENTS OF VALUES
In the process of acquiring an education, we learn about many important subjects. To fulfill our
potential, we need values and attributes that enrich our lives and the lives of others. These
qualities, the result of our inner development, will allow us to mature emotionally and spiritually.
The following points contain ideas regarding few of the components for living an effective live.
These traits will help you be more effective in college, work, relationships, and other areas of
your life.
Developing these components builds character, which serves as a springboard for dynamic
action. Character is the foundation from which we can live effective lives.

1. Faith
Belief in ourselves and trust in a Higher Power can help us through difficult times. An attitude of
surrender, "Thy will be done," is the highest form of prayer. "Letting go and letting God"
enables us to accept and appreciate life in all its variety. Faith in a Higher Power gives us
stability and peace.
2. Forgiveness
Generally, forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. The act that
hurt or offended you might always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip
on you and help you focus on other, positive parts of your life. Forgiveness can even lead to
feelings of understanding, empathy and compassion for the one who hurt you.
Forgiveness comes from a compassionate heart. We can find the courage to forgive ourselves
and others. Revenge and violence are often the result of a lack of forgiveness.
A forgiving attitude gives us peace of mind.
Forgiveness doesn't mean that you deny the other person's responsibility for hurting you, and it
doesn't minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive the person without excusing the act.
Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you go on with life.
3. Honesty and Integrity

Being honest gives us self-respect and faith in ourselves. According to Shakespeare, "No legacy
is so rich as honesty." We can be honest without injuring the feelings of others. Honesty is what
we do when no one is watching as well as when others are present. Integrity includes honesty
and involves adhering to our values and principles. Persons of integrity do not compromise their
principles for money, comfort, or quick results. Integrity requires courage and the strength of
one's convictions. There is congruency of thought, word, and action in the person of integrity.
This person serves as an admirable example for others.
4. Perseverance
Perseverance enhances our ability to accomplish goals. Perseverance is powerful, like the
sustained winds of a hurricane removing obstacles in its path. Inner growth and personal
transformation require perseverance. John Ruskin put it this way: "The highest reward for a
person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it." Our minds are our greatest
hindrance. Life's hardest battles are fought within ourselves. We need courage to win these
battles within our mind.
5. Responsibility
Responsibility implies that we respond to the needs of the situation at hand. We need to
determine the difference between unnecessary obligations and appropriate responsibilities.
Self-improvement is a responsible and unselfish action; it is a prerequisite to effectively helping

others. We cannot make a significant contribution to others if we avoid helping ourselves.
Being true to ourselves and to our commitments is a form of being responsible.

6. Self-confidence
Self-confidence means that one believes in oneself. Self-confidence grows as we discover and
utilize our strengths and talents to make a positive difference in the world.
Experiencing a series of small, incremental successes is an excellent way to overcome fear and
build self-confidence.
Faith in a Higher Power can enable us to face life with greater courage and self-confidence.
As our self-confidence grows, we increase our ability to attain our dreams and enhance our joy
of living. Believing that we are worthwhile makes life worth living. William James stated:
"These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and
your belief will help create the fact."
7. Resilience
Every day each one will face at least one challenge, probably many more. One needs to be able
to face that challenge and work it out in order to be successful. He needs to bounce back when
things don't go his way. A person who is Resilient can face failure and try again. They have a
higher tolerance for frustration and become proficient in problem-solving and decision-making
because of these skills. The successful person needs flexibility so he can deal with other people
effectively. He needs to learn the art of compromise. He needs to learn to go with the flow in
order to fit in with society.
Developing the above attributes enables us to live effective and fulfilling lives. I believe each of
us has enormous potential. Each of us is a unique child of God, who is an unlimited source of
love, energy, joy, and creativity. We possess vast inner resources from which we can make a
contribution. Drawing upon these resources, we can develop ourselves into the best human
beings we are capable of becoming. Our lives, therefore, become a blessing, not only for
ourselves, but for all the people whose lives we touch.
SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF PURPOSE - BASED LIFE
A purpose-based life is one where you bring forth your inner guidance to lead the way in
creating your life. Your spiritual vigor and joyful intentions are meshed with your everyday
experiences. The people, events, and circumstances of your life are a reflection of your beauty,
wonder, joy, and love. The following seven principles are signposts along your life's journey.
They are there to remind you of the joy of creating life the way you most want to live it.
1. Love:
Love is completely unselfish. Love has compassion for the object of its affection. Love does not
expect anything in return. Love transcends the material world and is solely focused on spiritual
things.
True love requires patience. It can withstand any adversity and any temptation. It is a bond
between two people that cannot be broken. Many relationships fail in hard times, but true love is
there when finances are low, in sickness, when disaster hits, and when there is no reason to hope.
It will last for an eternity.
2. Intuition:

The guidance within you always offers insights that lead you to feeling better and better about
yourself. When you heed your calling and focus on what feels the best in each moment, your life
unfolds miraculously into more love and peace. Bursts of new insight will appear, especially
when you need them most.
3. Introspection:
Life is all about action. When the actions are not there then the living stops. Therefore life is the
total sum of our actions from birth till death. Our actions have three major components, namely
Thinking, Talking and Doing. Our actions are always based on the expectations of the results
that it would produce. The results we expect are the ones that would make us Happy. Sometimes
it may not happen the way we expect and therefore we analyze what happened and try to make
some changes or improvements next time when we take the same action. This called the smart
way of living with new approaches in life to make it better and interesting. For this we must
know where we are now and then where we need to go. Our directions and actions must be clear
to take us where we want to go.
Such an approach is called Introspection or Self Analysis, so that we are clear in what we must
do. Introspection will make a man to understand the value of his own existence. By constant
research and by leading a virtuous way of life, one can dissipate the imprints of sins day by day.
As a result, the soul becomes pure and perfect and his mind is peaceful.
4. Intention:
By knowing what you want, you can set an intention as a beacon to rally around. Whenever you
have doubts, you can refocus on your intentions and allow frustration and resistance to fall away.
Crafting solid, clear intentions induces swift momentum towards your most cherished dreams.
If the intention is positive, the result on our own habitual patterns will be good, which is like an
inner result. We will in the future be more inclined to do similar good actions. Our own mindset
will be better and happier. If the intention is negative (i.e. we give out of wanting to get
something in return), the inner result will be negative; i.e. we will be more inclined to want
something back every time we give and therefore end up being more stingy or something like
that… In summary, if we have the good intention, at least there is a positive inner result. Besides
that we can do our best to make sure that the outer result will also be good.
5. Trust:
Being trustworthy is an admirable character trait. It is being honest, reliable and responsible.
Others will respect you more and want to continue relationships and dealing with you. Also, you
will feel a sense of self-respect.
Trust is also about relying on the promise of what another person or thing can do (what you think
they can do). Trust and promises go together. We can only learn how to trust when we know
who can fulfill the promises that they make. We can only learn how to trust when we realize that
only God can always fulfill His promises. We may desire to trust others because their promises
sound so good, but there is no guarantee that they can fulfill their promises. Only God can fulfill
all of His promises.
6. Cooperation:

Cooperation is working together for a common benefit. Cooperation promotes a good working
environment, encourages peace, and advances humanity. In order to cooperate we must first
tackle our own feelings of greed or jealousy, often accompanied by wanting to achieve
something by ourselves.
Cooperation requires:
Compromise: Compromise when you have a serious conflict.
Listening: Listen carefully to others and be sure you understand what they are saying.
Sharing: Share when you have something that others would like to have.
Encouraging: Encourage people to do their best.
Taking Turns: Take turns when there is something that nobody wants to do , or when more than
one person wants to do the same thing.
Doing Your Part: Do your part the very best that you possibly can. This will inspire others to do
the same.
7. Practice:
Whatever you have learned in your life so far, you are where you are. If some beliefs or habits
return that you no longer want, remember to practice introspection, listen to your intuition, feel
the love all around you, cooperate with your spiritual guidance, trust yourself, and create joyful
intentions. You can return to this practice time after time. As you continue your journey,
practicing your personal spirituality will lead you to the life of your dreams.
PARABLES OF LIFE
1. Wise and Foolish Builders:
A wise man built his house on a firm foundation. Heavy winds and rain came and beat the
house, but his foundation and house remained strong. But a foolish man built his house on the
sand. Heavy winds and rain came and beat the house and since the foundation was not strong the
house immediately fell flat to the ground.
This is a parable that talks about two sorts of people whose hearts are revealed in their actions.
Heavy winds and rains represent calamities and affliction that befall men
The wise man represents one who is ready to hear and obey God. By doing so no matter how
heavy the winds and rain of life come and beat him, he will remain strong and face it with
courage. However, the foolish man is one who does not learn from the teachings of God. The
foundation of his life and house is not firm. When the storms of life come beating down upon
him he will crumble. He experiences a complete destruction of his house.
2. Prodigal son
A father had two grown up sons. The younger son was ready to move away from home and
strike out on his own. He asked his father for his inheritance (money). The son wanted to
receive immediately the money that he would receive after the father’s death. Then the son went
away into a far country and quickly made friends – probably because of his money. He wasted
his money in bad habits and wrong behavior. And when his was gone so were his friends.

At last, everything went wrong for this son. Now the young boy was with no money and hence
didn’t have any food as well. Therefore he found a job working for a farmer. His job was to
feed the sheep. He became so hungry that he had to eat with the sheep to survive.
In this awful condition the young man realized that even the servants in the house of his father
lived better than he was living. He determined to return to his father as a servant, not a son.
When the young man returned he was surprised to find his father eagerly waiting for him. The
young man arrived to open arms. Though he came home to be a servant, his father gave him a
ring, a robe and a welcoming party.
This parable talks about God love and forgiveness. Here the Father represents God. God loves
us no matter what we have done and he wants us to repent so that he can forgive us. He is God
who will welcome us back, with rejoicing if we ask Him to forgive us and start a new life.
3. Unmerciful Servant
There was a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. When he had
begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But because he
couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had,
and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, ‘Lord,
have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’ The lord of the servant, being moved with
compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. “But that servant went out, and found one
of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii (approx. $2000 USD), and he grabbed
him, and took him by throat, saying, ‘pay me what you owe!’ “So his fellow servant fell down at
his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ He would not,
but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due. So when his
fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord
all that was done. Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave
you all that debt, because you begged me. Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow
servant, even as I had mercy on you?’ His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors,
until he should pay all that was due to him.
The above parable teaches to be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.
4. Sowing and Reaping
A farmer sows seed in a field. Some seed falls on the paths, and the birds quickly eat it. Some
seed falls where there are rocks, and not much soil. Plants grow quickly, but soon the sun dries
them. There is not enough soil, and the plants die. Some seed begins to grow in a place where
there are too many weeds. The weeds stop the growth of the plants, and the plants die. But other
seed falls on good ground. So, the plants grow well. The farmer has a harvest from these plants.
The meaning of the above parable goes like this. The first seed that fell on the path, where there
was no soil are the people who hear about the good/right ways in life but give no attention to it at
all. This is like the seed on the path. These people do not change their behavior. These kind of
people do nothing about other people. They are selfish. They quickly forget the good things
happened in their life.

Some seed falls where there are rocks. It grows quickly, but then it dies. This teaches us that
some people listen to the good/right ways in life. They seem to like what they hear but this does
not last. They have a difficult time, or other people laugh at them. Then they have no more
interest to walk in the right way.
Some seed began to grow among weeds, and the weeds killed it. This teaches us that some
people have no time for God. They are selfish, and they want things for themselves. They worry
all the time. They are anxious about their possessions.
Finally we hear in the story about seed on good ground. The good ground is like people who
love God. They believe in God and they trust him. God will bless these people. They will be
able to forgive other people, and to live in peace with them. They will be joyful. This is because
God can change them.
Examine yourself and ask yourself a question: what kind of soil are you like?

MISSION OF KARUNYA CHAPTER II
CONTENTS:
 Introduction
 History of Karunya University
 Vision and Mission of Karunya University
 Biography of Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran
 Facets of Jesus Calls Ministry
Introduction:
A university with unique characteristics is rare to be found. Karunya University is the
University, founded as a Christian Minority Institution by the late Dr. D. G. S. Dhinakaran and
his son Dr. Paul Dhinakaran. It is a fully residential Christian Private University located in
Coimbatore, India where thousands and thousands of professional Engineers are graduating
every year with excellent caliber. Thus, Karunya has emerged as a centre of excellence in
engineering studies in India and is widely preferred by students from all backgrounds.
History of Karunya University:

Origin of the university:
The origin of the Institution is amazing. In the year 1981, Late Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran, God's
servant received the divine commission to start a Technical University which could turn out
outstanding engineers with leadership qualities at the national and global level. Building up such
a great Institution was not an easy task. The Dhinakarans had to face innumerable trials and
tribulations including the tragic death of their dear daughter during the course of this great
endeavor. But nothing could stop them from reaching the goal.
Making of the University:

In 1981, D. G. S. Dhinakaran embarked on the path to start a technical university. The institute
was inaugurated on 4 October 1986, as Karunya Institute of Technology by Dr. Arjun Singh, the
Human Resources and Development (HRD) minister in the Indian government. The institute was
affiliated to Bharathiar University in Coimbatore and functioned as a private self-financing
engineering college. It was promoted by the Karunya Educational Trust.
Development of the university:

From an affiliated college in 1986, Karunya has risen to the level of a University status in
2004,(declared under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956) vide Notification No.9-3-2000-U3 dated
23.6.2004 of the Govt. of India) in recognition of its academic excellence by the Ministry of

Human Resources Development, government of India and subsequently renamed as Karunya
University.
Karunya University has completed 25 year of service in Higher education with specific focus on
Engineering and Technology. In the short span of its existence it has moved swiftly ahead to
carve a niche for itself as an institution promoting all round excellence. In a nutshell, Karunya is
a co-educational, fully residential, Technological University imparting holistic education to
develop the body, mind and spirit of the students
Motto of the University:

“ARISE AND SHINE”
Biography of Dr. D.G. S. Dhinakaran
Introduction:
“Lord! Hear my prayer now and grant me your power! Or else, slay me! I don’t
want to live as a powerless and phony Christian!!” This was the prayer of the man
who is entitled as “The Apostle of love” and some addressed him as “The Apostle
of Peace”. He is the great man who is known for his simplicity and compassionate
sharing of the Word of God. He is Dr. D.G. S Dhinakran, Founder of Jesus Calls Ministry and
Karunya Univeristy. He, through his living has attracted several souls for Lord Jesus Christ.
Childhood:
Bro. Duraisamy Geoffery Samuel Dhinakaran was born on July 1, 1935, in a village called
Surandai of Tirunelveli in South Tamil Nadu, India. He was an obedient son to his parents, and
his parents were very fond of him, being their only child. His father Duraisamy was a school
teacher. He loved to wear white at all times.
His mother Hepsibah was a housewife. She used to take great care of him, though she was an
epileptic patient. Bro.Dhinakaran often remembers the agony that she used to undergo as she
would be tormented by the fits which left her only at her old age when the Lord graciously
touched and healed her with His miraculous hand.
Challenges: :
In the year 1955, Bro. Dhinakarans life was heading on to a point of no return. The pressures that
were upon him at that point of time were too much for him to handle. He had to provide for a
sick mother, find ways through closed doors for an employment opportunity and above all, his
studies were heading nowhere. He took a look at his life and decided that these problems have no
solution and that there would be no light at the end of the tunnel. Suicide seemed to be the only
solution.

On February 11, 1955, after taking a long last loving glimpse of his beloved mother, knowing
that he would see her no more, he walked towards the railway track so that the oncoming express
train should take away his life and crush him beyond identification.
Struggles and Challenges:

En-route to the track, he ran into his uncle, a Police Officer, through whom the Lord spoke in a
way that would change his very outlook on life. He explained the immeasurable love and
compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ, of His supreme sacrifice on the cross, and he pointed out to
that the Lord Jesus was the only solution there ever was and is, to any problem that a man would
be having or would ever have to face in future.
Bro. Dhinakaran asked him three simple questions: "Can God heal my mother? Can He help me
in my studies? Can he help me find a job?" His uncle gave a "Yes" to all of these questions. Then
he sincerely asked him, "What should I do?" All he said was to kneel and cry out to the Lord
Jesus.
He returned home, and quickly entered his room, shut the door, dropped on to his knees and
cried out to the Lord. The Lord, in His mercy, descended and revealed to him, as in a movie, the
life that he had led for the past 20 years.
Tears welled up in his eyes and he began to cry uncontrollably. Then he begged the Lord for
forgiveness and pleaded with Him for a cleansing. He asked Jesus to take charge of his life.
From that moment, his life spun around. Every night, Lord Jesus would come down and sit
beside him and help him with his lessons. He granted an employment opportunity with the State
Bank of India, India's largest banking network.
Thus, that one encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ had turned his life that was heading on to
suicide towards a greatly successful one.
After his first encounter with Christ, he overcame all the failures in his life. He got a job in the
State Bank of India and was appointed in Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu) and later transferred to
various branches of the Bank in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
He passed C.A.I.I.B. exams adding a professional degree to his account. He became a great
success in life as he climbed up the corporate ladder from an ordinary Junior Typist to the top-
most ranking Officer in the whole Southern Division of the bank.
Divine Call:
Bro.D.G.S. Dhinakaran, ever since the day he gave his life to Christ, started to do whatever he
could to propagate the love of Christ, with a burden for the dying souls that he knew, could be
revived by one touch of the Almighty, just as his own life was changed. So, even as he was
working in a bank as an ordinary employee, he would exact all his duties at office quickly and
would be found on the streets, reaching far off villages on his bicycle, preaching the good news
to everyone who would stand to listen to his words. The Lord saw the faithfulness with which

Bro.Dhinakaran served Him and decided to trust into his hands, a mighty ministry that would
reach out to millions around the world, with His divine compassion.
On October 10, 1962, Lord Jesus appeared face to face for three long hours before Bro.D.G.S.
Dhinakaran and gave His commission to serve the suffering humanity:
"My son, people might have heard of My love; but they have not tasted it. So, I pour My love
and compassion in your heart. This love will console their broken hearts and heal their diseased
bodies. You will be witness to the power of My Holy Spirit."
With this glorious vision and these words of assurance, He rewarded His servant who had
persisted in prayer for this divine revelation and blessed him profusely.
Having accomplished his ambition in his banking career, he resigned his job to concentrate full
time in service to the people when the Lord told him to do that.
Family:
Bro. Dhinakaran was united in holy matrimony with Sis. Stella on August 17, 1959. Ever since,
Sis.Stella Dhinakaran has been a great support to him and helped him achieve great things for the
Lord in the ministry.
The birth of a son on September 4, 1962 brought immense joy into the home as Bro.Dhinakaran
saw in the little Paul, a great evangelist who would shoulder him in his responsibilities of his
ministry.
The most loving daughter of Bro.D.G.S. Dhinakaran, Evangeline Dhinakaran, dearly known as
Angel, was born on November 4, 1968. She was involved in the singing ministry for the Lord
even at a very young age.
Born on April 24, 1968, Evangeline joined the Dhinakarans' family by marrying Paul
Dhinakaran on June 02, 1989. The very same day she also made her entry into the Lord's
Ministry. Keeping in mind the fifteen fruitful years of her evangelical ministry, the International
Institute of Maranatha Church, Germany conferred her the doctorate degree during the Jesus
Calls Prayer Festival held in Germany on 15 April 2006.
Dr. D.G.S is blessed with three grandchildren, Samuel Paul Dhinakaran, born 15-July-1990,
Sharon Paul Dhinakaran, born 12-January-1992 and Stella Ramola (Sweety), born 05-February-
1998. They are involved in the ministry by way of singing in campaigns, television programmes
etc. Many musical albums by Sam, Sharon and Sweety are smash hits with lovely traditional as
well as new songs for everybody.
Ministry:
In the year 1973, the ministry of “Jesus Calls” bloomed!

The love, compassion, humility, holiness, truth, dedication and an unbiased concern for all
people without any difference of caste, colour, creed etc seen in the life and ministry of Bro.
D.G.S. Dhinakaran made millions and millions of people turn towards the Lord Jesus!
According to the verse, “A faithful man will abound with blessings” (Proverbs 28: 20), the Lord
saw the honesty and integrity in his ministry and blessed the various facets of his ministry! The
Lord not only blessed his ministry but also enlarged the territories, extended the boundaries and
exalted the various facets of his ministry!
Bro. D.G.S. Dhinakaran was absolutely sincere and completely committed in the ministry of the
Lord. He desired that others also should rise and go around the world to spread the message of
the Lord! As guided by the will of God, he started the “Jesus Calls” Power Ministry on 12th July
1980. Today, thousands of evangelists trained through this ministry are shining like stars and
working for the Kingdom of God all over the world!
Divine Vision:
In the year 1981, as Dr.D.G.S.Dhinakaran was in prayer with fasting the Lord spoke to him with
the voice distinct and clear that said, "My son you shall establish a place of learning all my
people! So I have said, So shall I do it, Let not anything deter you. The fervor of the Lord shall
do it. And no man can stop it!". In obedience to the divine vision, he furthered for the
establishment of the Institute with a unique vision. His vision for Karunya is that of a
Technological University founded on faith, which will produce teachers, engineers and managers
possessing the right combination of academic excellence, exemplary character and total
humanism. They should serve the motherland and fellowmen and help raise the quality of life to
global standards
The Great Sacrifice:

21st May 1986 was a tragic day in the life of Bro. D.G.S. Dhinakaran! On that fateful day, he
wanted to go to Mangalore to arrange bank loans to build Karunya Institute of Technology . On
the way to the airport along with his daughter, he met with a terrible car accident and he lost his
only dear daughter Evangeline! Yet, he did not lose heart! The same year, on 4th October, as
revealed by the Lord Almighty, he founded the Karunya Institute of Technology on the foothills
of beautiful and scenic Siruvani mountain ranges near Coimbatore (South India)! Today, this
college has become a well known university and is serving for the upliftment of young people by
giving them quality and world standard education!
His Commitment:
Bro. D.G.S. Dhinakaran had the grace and power to draw towards him all people both ordinary
as well as leaders of the nations, chiefs of various religions and heads of different churches! He
had a lot of care, concern and compassion for all people without any difference of colour,
community, caste and creed.
His Home call:

Truly, Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran was a man after God’s own heart, who healed millions of broken
hearted people around the world through his prayers. His prayers were so powerful because the

anointing that was in him was awesome. He also had the spirit of compassion in him which
moved him to pray with tears for the suffering humanity.
Dr. M.G. "Pat'' Robertson, Chairman of The Christian Broadcasting Network, USA has
described the spiritual nature of Bro. Dhinakaran very aptly in the following few lines: " Frankly,
I cannot recall any figure in the Old Testament or New Testament who has had such a profound
and ongoing encounter with the Deity. ''
In his death the world has lost not only an eminent evangelist but also a humble human being
who did exploits for the furtherance of God's Kingdom on this earth. While the Lord Almighty
was pleased to take him Home to be with Him, his end in this world is nothing but the End of an
Era.
The Apostle of Peace also called as The Apostle of Love, Bro. D.G.S. Dhinakaran, who prayed
for millions and millions of people all over the world for the past 53 years, was a man after
Jesus’ own heart. This great man of God, who was raised from a lowly state to pinnacles of glory
and honor because of his obedience and faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ, slept in Him on
20.2.2008.
Vision and Mission of Karunya University:

Vision of Karunya:
o True to its name Karunya which means ‘Compassion’, Karunya University shall be a
University with a social concern which will address the problems of humanity through
teaching, research and extension in socially relevant areas.
o The students and faculty of Karunya University will be imbibed with spiritual
discernment and zeal to serve humanity and to eventually become leaders of society.
Mission of Karunya:
To accomplish the vision, Karunya University – a Christian Minority Institution will be
committed to transform lives through the following objectives.
o To raise undergraduate and post graduate students and research scholars to serve
humanity by attaining high levels of academic excellence, professional competence,
exemplary values and spiritual empowerment.
o To find solutions to human problems in areas relating to Water, Food, Health Care and
Energy through Scientific, social and technological research as well as policy
formulation.
o To set up care homes for physically and mentally challenged as well as the elderly and
the terminally ill, to enable the students to understand the human needs and pain by
participating in the services rendered to them on campus and thus enabling the students to
dedicate themselves to work towards solving these problems through research,
development, policy making at high levels and through providing spiritual care.
To Inculcate in students values and make them appreciate the need for high ethical actions in
personal, social and public life in order to enable them to reach higher levels, to become leaders,

to be wise in order to influence society and nation with a view to uphold and promote a just
social order.
Karunya gives equal importance to academic excellence, spiritual empowerment and value
inculcation to form every student into an Ambassador to become a leader in the global society, in
terms of working towards solving the human problems. Firstly, To attain academic excellence,
students will be provided with application oriented, fundamentally strong education in each area
of study by each faculty member.
Secondly, every student should acquire values to stand up for what is right and to live a
disciplined life to become a leader in society and to lead the nation in righteousness.
"Righteousness exalts a nation" (Proverbs 14:34).
Thirdly Karunya University believes in empowering students with strong spiritual values and
faith in God through prayer to enable them to stand strong in the midst of all tribulations and
trials in life and overcome them and to rise up to great heights.
FACETS OF JESUS CALLS MINISTRY
Introduction:
Jesus Calls is a global ministry founded by Late D.G.S. Dhinakaran and Paul Dhinakaran with a
divine vision to heal millions of brokenhearted people through the matchless love and
compassion of Jesus Christ. The ministry operates with a dedicated mission. “Pray for all people
of all nations and all backgrounds” - who are sick and troubled, having none to intercede for
them so as to receive miracles from the Almighty God. Thus, Jesus Calls Ministry is fully
committed to bring God’s immense blessings and His healing touch to millions of brokenhearted
people in their soul, mind and body through its different facets that incorporate the mission.
Different Facets Of Jesus Calls Ministry
1. KARUNYA UNIVERSITY:
Karunya University was founded with the noble vision to raise professionals and leaders of high
academic caliber and unblemished character, nurtured with a strong motivation and commitment
to serve humanity. The Karunya Institute of Technology was started as a private self-financing
engineering college on 4 October 1986. In 2004, the institute was awarded the Deemed to be
University status in recognition of its academic excellence by the Ministry of Human Resources
Development, Government of India and subsequently renamed as Karunya University under
section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 vide Notification No. 9-3-2000-U3 dated. 23.6.2004 of the
Government of India.
Karunya University is into its 26th year of service in Higher education with specific focus on
Engineering and Technology. In the short span of its existence it has moved swiftly ahead to
carve a niche for itself as an institution promoting all round excellence. In a nutshell, Karunya is
a co-educational, fully residential, Technological University imparting holistic education to
develop the body, mind and spirit of the students.

2. BETHESDA – A TASTE OF HEAVEN
In the year 1984, the Lord appeared in a vision to Dr.D.G.S. Dhinakaran and commissioned him
to raise the Bethesda International Prayer Centre. In obedience to the vision, Bethesda
International Prayer Centre came into its being in the year 1993. The Lord has been blessing
countless people, who throng to the Bethesda International Prayer Centre every day. The
miracles that people experience here are truly astonishing!
Bethesda International Prayer Centre is set amidst the scenic splendor of the Siruvani Hills, 25
kms away from the industrial city of Coimbatore. The landscape surrounding the Prayer Centre
is beautiful with hills, waterfalls, green pastures and rivulets, providing the most peaceful
atmosphere for prayer and meditation. The Prayer Centre is open on all days from 6:00 a.m. to
8:00 p.m.
3. EVANGELINE MATRICULATION SCHOOL:

As an extension to the God-given plan of the Karunya University, the Karunya Trust began the
'Community Development' service back in 1991 by establishing the Evangeline Matriculation
School and dedicating it to the local poor and tribal people who live in the surrounding villages
of Karunya Nagar. The school is well equipped and provides excellent education to nearly five
hundred students every year. The other projects of the Trust, viz., the Poultry, Agricultural
Farms, etc., not only help all the local people to get jobs to earn their livelihood, but also help in
improving the living conditions of these people.
4. SEESHA - SAMITI FOR EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL AND HEALTH

ACTION,
Seesha, a non-profit organization founded by the world-renowned spiritual leader,
educationalist and social worker Dr. PAUL DHINAKARAN, with a noble vision to uplift the
downtrodden. Enabling poor children to come up in their education and to uplift the rural
people are his sole desire and mission. Our Vision is to promote the cause of those coming
from poor circumstances in deprived areas and to enable them to attain decencies of life.
Vision:
To help the poorest of the poor and the needy by providing them much needed sustenance
through our welfare and social assistance programs
Services of Seesha:
 Catering to the needs of the poor & needy irrespective of Caste, Color, Creed, and
Religion & Race.
 Provide food for the people living in poverty.
 Save lives by donating BLOOD through our Blood Donation Camps.
 Provide Health care to the rural poor and tribal groups through our RURAL
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.
 Medical help through our FREE MEDICAL CAMPS.
 Provide education aid to children in need through programs like Sponsor a child & free
tuition centers.
 Conduct Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) programs in the slums.
5. YOUNG PARTNER'S PLAN

Young Children fall prey to the evil snares of Satan. Children being tender and less
protected, often become slaves to the enemy. The Lord appeared to Bro. D.G.S. Dhinakaran

on 25th July 1985 and gave him a mandate to institute a plan for the young partners who are
below the age of 25 years. The family members and the prayer warriors pray for these Young
Partners to receive the following blessings in their life:
1. Protection from Evil. ("Keep them from the evil one" - John 17:15)
2. Wisdom to Shine. ("Your children shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the
peace of your children" - Isaiah 54:13)
3. Prosperity in life. ("He shall bless your Children" - Psalm 115:14)
Accordingly, our prayer warriors pray for every Young Partner every day for all these blessings
to be showered in their lives, along with their prayer requests. Today millions of Young
Partners are shining in many fields with richest blessings from God in each stage of their lives
as they sustain this ministry through their earnest donations.
6. BUSINESS BLESSING PLAN

“Sow into people’s lives & reap your blessings in business”
7th September, 2008, Dr. Paul was divinely revealed by the Holy Spirit about the Jesus Calls
Business Blessing Plan, to pray for the welfare of the businesses & business people for
prosperity and wealth to be created to build God’s Kingdom.
7. CENTRE OF DIVINE EMPOWERMENT (CODE)

“Transforming form miracle seekers to miracle workers”
The Holy Spirit inspired and spoke in the heart of Dr. Paul Dhinakaran and said, “My son,
every day thousands of people come and are blessed by the Jesus Calls Ministries. All these
people should also have a personal experience with me and be filled with my Spirit and become
a channel of blessing to others.” “Therefore My son, you should teach them how to listen to the
voice of God and to walk with God and be the prophetic voice to the Nation’s governance."
In obedience to this vision, the Centre of Divine Empowerment (CoDE) was established to
shepherd the partners of Jesus Calls. The Mission of Jesus Calls CoDE is to train the
participants worldwide
 To help them to experience the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
 To lead them to receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit
 To equip them with the power & gifts of the Holy Spirit
 To make them a prophetic voice to the nation
These objectives are achieved through conducting Prayer Seminars, Institute of Power Ministry
and High Altitude Training Programs in different cities worldwide.
8. TELEVISION CLUB PARTNER

To sustain the massive explosion of Gospel through the electronic media, the TV Club was
started in the year 1972 through FEBA to bring blessings to the people through the sacrificial
offerings of the TV Club Partner. Now Jesus Calls reach the highest number of people through
the Television Ministry, we have more than 100 television programs per week in 13 major
languages through which, an estimated 90 million people are being blessed. Under the TV Club
plan one can pledge to support this facet of the ministry by making a donation of a minimum of
Rs.100/- or more every month.
9. JESUS CALLS FAMILY BLESSING PLAN

It has been started with a divine vision given by God to Dr. Paul Dhinakaran to pray for the
blessing and prosperity of those who are to be settled in family life (Psalms 68: 6) and for the
members of an existing family (Psalms 115: 12-15). This plan will provide a strong spiritual
covering for each and every member of the family of a partner thro’ the everlasting love and
compassion of God as the family of the Dhinakarans and the Prayer Warriors of the Jesus Calls
Prayer Tower cover them with prayers to the Lord.
10. PRAYER FESTIVAL

The Jesus Calls meetings are one of the major platforms and channels through which the
Ministry carries the love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ to the millions of broken
hearted around the world. The partnerships that have been established with us are precious in the
sight of the Lord and our Lord’s heart will be gladdened and He will surely reward them richly
not only in this life but also in the life to come in Heaven. The expenses for conducting these
prayer meetings are quite enormous and much planning and effort has been put in with the sole
aim of reaching the broken hearted. A Campaign partner can sponsor an amount of Rs. 10,000/-
to Rs.10 lakhs for each campaign as per the leading of the Holy Spirit.
11. WOMEN’S MINISTRY

The Lord has used Sis. Stella Dhinakaran mightily, bringing a great revival among women in
India. The Jesus calls Ministries conducts Special Women's Conferences in various places of the
country in which Sis. Stella Dhinakaran and Sis. Evangeline Paul Dhinakaran deliver the Lord's
message. These conferences are mainly conducted to empower women with the Word of God
and to help them grow in the Lord. Thousands attend these meetings and the Lord's power is
demonstrated through mighty miracles. Women from all parts of the city pour into the grounds
where the Jesus Calls Public Meetings are held, to listen to the message that Sis.Stella
Dhinakaran brings from God. The Holy Spirit would operate the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit
from within her. Besides this, when public meetings are conducted a morning is devoted to the
Family Blessing Meeting where peace is restored in thousands of broken homes. People
surrender their lives to Christ with torrents of tears and the conviction of their sins.
12. CHILDREN’S MINISTRY

"Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the
kingdom of heaven.'" (Mathew 19:14). Jesus Calls "Children's Club" is an exclusive club for
children. They are taught to lead a spiritual life from a tender age through songs, stories and
skits. They are equipped to live a life pleasing to God.
The worldly pleasures are very tempting and it is a challenge to stay away from evil. But, Jesus
Calls Children Club shows them the godly way to resist temptation and lead a life that is sure to
be a blessing to the child as well as to the family. Children who attend can enjoy the godly
fellowship and establish healthy friendship with kids in the club.
13. YOUTH MINISTRY:

To lead the youth to have a spirit filled life, youth ministry was established and theyare
ministered unto with the Word of God.
14. JESUS CALLS MARRIAGE BUREAU

Jesus Calls Ministries has been building up the homes of many through its outreaches. One of
the endeavors is helping people to choose the right partner in their marriage through its
Marriage Bureau.
15. EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

As employment problems have been increasing, certainly we need not only others' prayers, but
also their help. Thus, with a view to cater to the needs of the unemployed partners we at the
Jesus Calls Ministries started an employment bureau in November 1994 to help the unemployed
and job-seeking Youth to find the suitable Jobs.
16. CORRESPONDENCE MINISTRY:

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
The prayers offered by the Dhinakarans and the Prayer Warriors at the prayer towers worldwide
have yielded mighty miracles from God in the lives of millions of brokenhearted people around
the globe. People are encouraged, counseled and prayed for the various matters.
17. MEDIA MINISTRY

The History
The advent of the electronic revolution has changed every aspect of life and has a marvelous
impact on the lifestyle of people. Keeping pace with the changes that happen around us, the Jesus
Calls Ministries has also been constantly evaluating the various means by which the Gospel can
be reached, "unto the ends of the earth" and started the Media Ministry way back in the year
1972. The gospel is proclaimed through various media like TV, Audio, Video cassettes and CDs.
TV Programmes:
The Dhinakarans spend prime time in prayer to produce these programs, and many technicians
work along with them to produce a complete program. We have 1768 television programs per
month in 8 major languages through which, an estimated 90 million people are being blessed.
Our programs attract viewers from many other commercial serials telecast at the same time and
have received the maximum TRP ratings in almost in all the channels in which they are telecast.
The Lord blesses each and every viewer of the programs; the miracles reported through our
programs are growing day by day. We give all the glory to the Lord who is enabling us to reach
millions of people. It is possible only because of the faithful prayers of our partners and their
generous support. In turn, they enjoy the blessings of the Lord in their personal life and bring
healing to the aching souls. This operation requires financial support to sustain and send out the
blessings every week.
18. MAGAZINE MINISTRY

The Jesus Calls Ministries, in its quest to reach out to the masses, started the Magazine Ministry
back in 1973. A modest and humble beginning, with just 200 subscribers, the first 'Jesus Calls'
magazine came out in the month of May, 1973 in both English and Tamil. But this facet of the
ministry grew in leaps and bounds reaching more people by every passing month. In the year
1980, the Lord enabled us to introduce this magazine both in Malayalam and Telugu editions and
2 years later in the year 1982 the Hindi edition appeared. In the year 1986 the 'Jesus Calls'
magazine got published in Kannada. Now 'Jesus Calls' magazine is in six different languages and

reaches to an estimated 250,000 people every month and the readership of this magazine exceeds
half a million.
19. BOOKS AND LITERATURE

The Dhinakarans have authored a number of books, being filled and guided by the Holy Spirit,
catering to the Spiritual needs of others. The first booklet was published in the year 1973 entitled
"The Cause And Cure of Sickness". This was followed by 19 books one after another, published
in 7 different languages. They have expounded to several hundred thousands of readers.
Dr.Paul Dhinakaran took his pen in 1990s starting with a book for the Youth called "Born to
Fly". His "Secrets for Success" is also desired by youth who burn to succeed in life. Not long ago
he wrote a book titled "Blessings on the Beloved". Sister Stella Dhinakarans' has also written a
book entitled "Priceless Pearl" which has merited an award and has touched the lives of many.
20. AUDIO & VIDEO MINISTRY

Many people who were unable to attend the crusades organized by Jesus Calls Ministries (as
well as those who attended them personally) request us to record these unobtainable gifts of the
Lord in these meetings. Now we have a huge library of cassettes with the messages of the
Dhinakarans.
The Lord has given The Dhinakarans the talent of singing. The Lord performs miracles through
their songs and their voices coupled with the heavenly music and the Lord's blessings have
brought blessings to many. Especially the young children of Dr.Paul Dhinakaran, Sam, Sharon
and Sweety are the role models for many children of their ages. Their songs mesmerize little
children and express the love and compassion of the Lord.
21. JESUS CALLS WEBSITES

Certainly the last decade belongs to the explosion of Information over the Internet. All of a
sudden information is available to everybody about virtually anything under the sun. No wonder
millions of people are hooked on to this powerful media. Sensing opportunities to spread the
Good News over such a powerful source, the Jesus Calls Ministries began the Internet ministry,
by launching the first ever prayer portal www.prayertoweronline.org, in the November 1, 2000.
Till date, Jesus Calls has the following 18 websites, through which the gospel is spread
powerfully.
1. www.prayertoweronline.org 10. hindi.prarthana.org

2. www.jesuscalls.org 11. malayalam.jesuscalls.org
3. www.jesuscalls.mobi 12. fr.jesuscalls.org
4. www.jesuscallseurope.net 13. de.jesuscalls.org
5. www.jesuscallscanada.ca 14. www.rainbowtv.tv
6. www.jesuscalls.sg 15. www.seesha.org
7. www.jesuscalls.org.au 16. www.karunya.net
8. www.jebam.com 17. www.uturn.in
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TRANSMITTING THE MISSION CHAPTER III
CONTENTS:
 Introduction
 Understanding The Human Needs And Pain
 Dedicating To Solve Problems Of Humanity
 Need For Finding Solutions To Problems Related To Food, Water, Health Care And
Energy.
 Lessons From Joseph’s Life In Solving The Global Food And Economy Crisis
 Saving The Humanity
INTRODUCTION
We were put on earth to make a contribution. We were not created just to consume resources – to
eat, to breath, and take up space. God designed us to make a difference with our life. We were
created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants us to give something back. This
is God’s purpose for our life. The Scripture says God has created us for a life of “good deeds”,
which he has already prepared for us to do. These “good deeds” are our service.
Whenever we serve others in any way we are serving God. We have a place, a purpose, a role
and a function to fulfill. This gives our life great significance and value.
UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN NEEDS AND PAIN
A few years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally
disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100 yard dash. At the gun, they all started out, not
exactly in a dash, but with a relish to run the race to the finish and win. All, that is, except one
boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a couple of times and began to cry.
The other eight heard the boy. They slowed down and looked back. They all turned around and
went back. One child with Down’s syndrome bent down and kissed him and said, “This will
make it better.” All nine linked arms and walked across the finish line together. Everyone in the
stadium stood, and the cheering went on for several minutes.
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have
received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” Says Mother Theresa
Psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943
paper This hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on
to other, more advanced needs.
This hierarchy is most often displayed as a pyramid. The lowest levels of the pyramid are made
up of the most basic needs, while the more complex needs are located at the top of the pyramid.
Needs at the bottom of the pyramid are basic physical requirements including the need for food,

water, sleep, and warmth. Once these lower-level needs have been met, people can move on to
the next level of needs, which are for safety and security.
As people progress up the pyramid, needs become increasingly psychological and social. Soon,
the need for love, friendship, and intimacy become important. Further up the pyramid, the need
for personal esteem and feelings of accomplishment take priority. Maslow emphasized the
importance of self-actualization, which is a process of growing and developing as a person in
order to achieve individual potential.
Five Levels of the Hierarchy of Needs
There are five different levels in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:
1. Physiological Needs
These include the most basic needs that are vital to survival, such as the need for water,
air, food, and sleep. Maslow believed that these needs are the most basic and instinctive
needs in the hierarchy because all needs become secondary until these physiological
needs are met.
2. Security Needs
These include needs for safety and security. Security needs are important for survival, but
they are not as demanding as the physiological needs. Examples of security needs include
a desire for steady employment, health insurance, safe neighborhoods, and shelter from
the environment.
3. Social Needs
These include needs for belonging, love, and affection. Maslow considered these needs to
be less basic than physiological and security needs. Relationships such as friendships,

romantic attachments, and families help fulfill this need for companionship and
acceptance, as does involvement in social, community, or religious groups.
4. Esteem Needs
After the first three needs have been satisfied, esteem needs becomes increasingly
important. These include the need for things that reflect on self-esteem, personal worth,
social recognition, and accomplishment.
5. Self-actualizing Needs
This is the highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Self-actualizing people are self-
aware, concerned with personal growth, less concerned with the opinions of others, and
interested fulfilling their potential.
At the peak of this hierarchy is self-actualization. The hierarchy suggests that when the other
needs at the base of the pyramid have been met, the individual can then focus their attention on
this pinnacle need. Self-actualization is described as "…the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to
the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially."
Self-actualized people tend to accept themselves and others as they are. They tend to lack
inhibition and are able to enjoy themselves and their lives free of guilt. Other people are treated
the same regardless of background, current status, or other socio-economic and cultural factors.
DEDICATING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY
In 1910 a baby girl was born to Albanian parents living in Macedonia. At the age of 19, the
young woman moved to Calcutta, India to teach high school students. She later became the
school director. At the age 36 she committed herself to serve God by living with and helping the
poorest of the poor. Today she is remembered worldwide simply as Mother Theresa.
He was born in 1822 to a tanner. Although he was only an average student in school, his school
headmaster realized his potential and encouraged him while he was studying physics and
chemistry he began experiments that would shape the understanding of medicine save birth of
the new born, prevention of disease anthrax, vaccine for rabies. He believes science is not
intended to make the scientist famous, but to improve the welfare of mankind. He simply wanted
to help other people he is Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine.
On July 9, 2000 an eleven year old boy stood boldly before an audience of 10,000 adults to give
a self written speech saying, “We are normal, we can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like
everyone else. Don’t be afraid of us – we are all the same!” This boy was much like us except
that he was born with HIV/AIDS. While his health deteriorated, he gave countless interviews and
traveled internationally to raise awareness for AIDS. “I just never give up. I must fight this bad
disease I have. I have a lot of work to do for the other mothers and children out there.” Says
Nkosi Haven died on June 1, 2001.
In 1875 all streets, homes and offices were lit by gas, fire or candle light. A young man name
Thomas Edison began to ponder how to create a safe, economical, longer lasting lighting system.
He held patents for 1,093 innovations. This astonishing number of inventions came from his
very diligent work and creativity. When asked by the reporter how it felt to fail 2000 times

before successfully inventing the light bulb, Edison said, “I never failed once. It just happened
to be a 2000 step process.”
1. Dedication Requires Decision. A committed dedicated life begins with a primary decision.
If one chooses to dedicate his life to any field regardless of the field of endeavor a primary
decision must be made.
2. Dedication Requires Determination Determination is one the greatest assets we can
possess. Determination can bring out the best in us. Determination is the tool we use to
defeat discouragement. Determination is the tool we use to overcome temporary failure to
prevent failure from becoming permanent. Determination builds character. It helps us
become a more reliable person. It helps us meet our commitments. It helps us prioritize
and manage our time to maximize positive results.
3. Dedication Requires Discipline when we determine to do a given thing the next step to
enable us to carry through with that decision is discipline. Discipline is important because it
teaches a person to be responsible, respectful, and make smart decisions. If there was no
discipline, people would do what they wanted and make mistakes without putting the
consideration of others first. Discipline promotes good human behavior to better society and
makes it a more pleasant place for everyone.
4. Dedication Requires Devotion The deepest yearning of our hearts is the desire to grow into
the kind of person that God would have us to be. We do not always remember this because
we live in a world, which involves many kinds of pressures. Spiritual growth is sometimes
precedence for a time.
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS RELATED TO FOOD, WATER, ENERGY

AND HEALTH CARE
The human race is killing our planet by flooding land, sea, air with pollution, plants and animals
unable to adapt quickly enough enough to the changes in the environment that mankind is
causing. The earth is becoming less capable of sustaining the world’s population. Even humanity
is at risk of becoming extinct because of the long term effects of global warming.
1. FOOD PROBLEM AND FINDING SOLUTIONS:

India is now facing an acute shortage of food. Indian soil is unable to feed her growing
population, for which huge quantities of food grains are imported from the foreign countries like
U.K., U.S.A., Australia and Burma.Consequently, great amount of Indian wealth is drained away
to the other parts of the world leaving India in abject poverty and excessive misery.
CAUSE OF FOOD SHORTAGE:
The following are the principle causes of food-shortage.
 Want of improved methods of cultivation through science and technology.

 Poverty and ignorance of Indian formers.
 Tillers are not in feasts and picnics.
 Wastage of food in feasts and picnics.
 Wastage of food in wrong process of cooking.
 Wastage of food for ignorance of preserving method.
 Want of cold storage facility.
 Defective food habit.
 Dishonesty of dealers.
 Excessive growth of population.
HOW TO SOLVE THE FOOD PROBLEM:
The following are the possible remedies to eradicate the food problem.
 Introduction of improved method of cultivation based on science and technology.

 Improvement of financial and educational status of the Indian cultivators.
 Attracting educated people to the profession of cultivation.
 Provision of water-pipes, electricity, insecticides, fertilizer and research work for
agriculture.
 Mechanization of agriculture.
 Equitable land-reform.
 To refrain from holding feast and picnics in order to check the possible wastage of food.
 To know the proper method of dressing and cooking in order to check the wastage of
food.
 To know the method of food preservation in order to save the perishable foods from
wastage.
 Provision of cold storage in every village and refrigerator in every household.
 Changing food habit on everybody's part.
 Family-Planning through birth control.
CONCLUSION:

Food problem is the most vexing problem of India. It is the most insulting problem too. The
Government of India is trying its best to increase the food-production through block
development project, national extension project, community project, package-programme and
grow more food campaign. It is trying to curb the growth of population by extensive mass-
education through ceaseless propaganda and by opening special clinic for birth-control. The
people of India should do what they should do to remove the scarcity of food from the Indian
soil.
2. WATER:
One-in-six people in the world lack safe drinking water. Water-related illnesses are the leading
cause of human sickness and death. In many countries, the water problem is the primary reason
people are unable to rise out of poverty. Women and children bear the burdens
disproportionately, often spending six hours or more each day fetching water for their families
and communities. But there is hope. Proven solutions to the water problem currently exist, such
as digging wells and rainwater harvesting. Proper funding and a collective will can make
universal safe drinking water a reality.
SCAPE OF THE PROBLEM:
• 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water, roughly one-sixth of the
world's population.
• 2.2 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diseases
associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
• Half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related illnesses.
• In the past 10 years, diarrhea has killed more children than all the people lost to armed conflict
since World War II.
• Some 6,000 children die every day from disease associated with lack of access to safe drinking
water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene - equivalent to 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.
• The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is six kilometers.
• Tens of millions of children cannot go to school as they must fetch water every day.
Drop out rates for adolescent girls, who even make it that far, skyrocket once they hit puberty as
there are no private sanitation facilities at their schools.
• 80 percent of diseases in the developing world are caused by contaminated water
• Waterborne diseases (the consequence of a combination of lack of clean water supply and
inadequate sanitation) cost the Indian economy 73 million working days per year.
• It is estimated that pneumonia, diarrhea, tuberculosis and malaria, which account for 20% of
global disease burden, receive less than one percent of total public and private funds devoted to
health research.
• If we did nothing other than provide access to clean water, without any other medical
intervention, we could save 2 million lives a year.
GEOGRAPHY
• In China, India and Indonesia, twice as many people are dying from diarrheal diseases as from
HIV/AIDS.

• The average person in the developing world uses 2.64 gallons of water a day. The average person
in the United Kingdom uses 35.66 gallons of water per day. The average person in the United
States uses between 100 and 175 gallons every day at home.
• More than 40 million hours are wasted each year in Africa alone from women and children
gathering water.
• It is estimated that 5.3 billion people, two-thirds of the world’s population, will suffer from
water shortages by 2025.
CONSUMPTION
• The average person uses 100 to 175 gallons of water per day.
• It takes 5 liters of water to make 1 liter of bottled water.
• Almost 70 percent of the available fresh water gets used for irrigation in agriculture.
• More than half of the water used for irrigation leaks, evaporates or runs off.
OUR PLANET
 20 percent of freshwater fish species have been pushed to the edge of extinction from
contaminated water.
 Half of the world’s 500 major rivers are seriously depleted or polluted.
 There are more than 300,000 contaminated groundwater sites in the United States.
 The water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank—there is no new water.
FINDING SOLUTIONS FOR WATER PROBLEM:
The LifeStraw is a life-saving technology that allows any individual to insert the straw
into water, no matter how dirty, and an advanced filtration system ensures that the only liquid
coming out the other end is clean, potable drinking water. This technology is inexpensive to
make and manufacture. Recently, Coca to distribute 27,000 Life Straws to needy African
children and families.
Governments spend billions of dollars sending safe drinking water and other supplies to
struggling nations. Not only is this expensive and lacking in scope, but when people congregate
to get such essential things, have more problems occurred.
Engineer Michael Pritchard has an interesting solution to this problem. He has created a small
portable water bottle that that cleans even the most awful disease infected water.
Lab Scientists are developing water treatment and monitoring technologies to solve water
monitoring, treatment and management problem. They are creating modules that accurately
forecast climate change impacts on the regional water supply as rain water needed to grow crop,
fish, recreation and other needs.

3. ENERGY
Some of the biggest challenge facing our world today involves the health of our planet. Each one
of us play a role in preserving earth. If we want the future generation to enjoy the planet’s
beauty and all that it has to offer we need to do much better about keeping it in good health.
The world we live in today is quite different from that of 200 years ago, when there were few
modern inventions and little industry. Today almost every family owns one automobile or more.
We travel long distance in cars, trains and planes. We need fuel to power transportation. We also
use enormous amount of electricity to run our homes, factories and operate computers,
appliances and machines.
We use lot of energy to keep our community, our state, our country running smoothly so that we
can live more comfortably and accomplish the work to be done. But there is enormous energy
use. By using too much fuel we are changing the mixture of gases in the atmosphere and
potentially are changing the temperature and the climate.
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO ENERGY PROBLEM:
 The Scientific lab analysis the nation’s energy production.

 Lab Researchers track energy trends, demands and uses looking for opportunities to
improve our nation’s energy.
 Researchers hope to find new alternative energy sources that can increase efficiency and
reduce waste.
 Efforts are taken to eliminate increased carbon emission by the end of 2050.
 Scientists are developing carbon free energy sources and techniques to capture and store
carbon dioxide. This will help reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy sources that add
so much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
 Future energy demand can be met only through mixed use of all available energy sources
that are environment friendly like solar, wind and water.
4. HEALTH CARE:
Health care is an important issue, as humans need to stay healthy to live and work. Therefore we
need to treat our environment in ways that help us do this. One issue that comes to mind is the
decreasing number of trees today, because without them we would have less oxygen and more
carbon dioxide in the air we breathe. Trees and other plants renew the oxygen that we need by
talking in carbon dioxide, which we breathe out, and giving off oxygen as a by-product of their
respiration. Cutting down trees in a sustainable way, and allowing them to renew their numbers
is a way to be sure that the people who come after us can breathe the same good air that we do.
In our society today it is essential for us to have hospitals and labs which treat us when we get
sick, or injure ourselves.
MODERN INVENTIONS RELATED TO HEALTH CARE:

 Active Bionic Prosthesis – Prosthetic limbs are no longer non functioning items. Battery
powered motors, microprocessors and blue tooth technology allows muscles to mimic
natural human body motions.
 82% Physicians in 2012 will use smart phones to get information access patient records
and view digital medical information in seconds.
 Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) to detect tumors in dense tissues.
 Modern Tele health helps patients and doctors to contact like never before.
 Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) medication to delay progression of
AIDS and prolong the life of infected person.
 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) monitor the growth of brain tumor
determine how well the brain is functioning after a stroke.
 Robotic Surgeries leave few small marks on the body and allow great accuracy and less
post operation recovery time.
 Laser surgeries that enables to have accurate focus on small areas of the body.
 Temporary and permanent artificial hearts are being used to help patients stay healthy.
NEED FOR FINDING SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS RELATED TO FOOD, WATER,

HEALTH CARE AND ENERGY.
The ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ consisted of preaching, healing and teaching. Offering
health and healing is the demonstrative of God's love and care to the poor marginalized and the
humanity. It is the vision of the founder Dr. Paul Dhinakaran to reach the poor and marginalized
through innovative health care programs and to demonstrate the love and compassion of Christ

and to wipe away the tears of the poor and needy, to alleviate their sufferings through its various
welfare, social and health assistance programmes without any discrimination of caste, colour,
creed, race and religion.
LESSONS FROM JOSEPH’S LIFE IN SOLVING THE GLOBAL FOOD AND

ECONOMY CRISIS
In the book of exodus we come across the story of a young godly Prime Minister who brought
the solution to a major global problem through the divine guidance. This young man was Joseph
the son of Jacob who was sold as a slave under the hands of the Egyptians by his own brothers.
The Lord God was with Joseph and guided him with supernatural wisdom and knowledge which
solved the greatest problem of his time.
FORESEEING AND ANALYSING: – God enabled Joseph to foresee the events which were
about to take place in his recent future. Joseph saw that there will be seven years of plenty
followed by seven years of famine and through divine guidance he was able to analyze the events
and predict a solution for the problem. Like Joseph we should be able to foresee the disaster
which is approaching the society and rightly analyze the nature and impact of disaster so that a
practical solution can be devised beforehand and the humanity can be protected. This can be
possible only when we walk with God and are sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. When
we seek the Lord for his direction for the future He will surely enable us to know what the future
holds for us.
ENHANCED PRODUCTION: Joseph knew that before the famine there will be a time where
the weather will be favorable for the production of crops, so he instructed the people and
developed strategies to make the best use of this condition to produce a mega harvest of crops. In
the present scenario there are many resources which are not tapped to their fullest and a lot of
energy is wasted because of the lack of means to productively channelize the available resources.
The need of the hour is to effectively evaluate the current resources and maximize the production
of food items, drinking water, medicines, clothing etc through innovative techniques.
PRESERVATION: One of the major problems we are facing in the society is to safely store and
preserve the essential amenities of the daily living. There have been cases of tons of food grains
being decayed and disposed because of ignorance in properly preserving the abundance of
produce. If we look at the life of Joseph we can learn that God enabled him to build huge store
houses which could preserve and contain large quantity of food items for several years. By the
help of God we should make use of the latest scientific technologies for preserving and storing
the essential amenities and make it available for the remote villages where main production of
goods is taking place.
PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: Many a times the produce of goods gets stagnant to
limited regions and doesn’t reach the hands of the needy because of poor public distribution
system. Joseph through the divine guidance developed a system where the food crops were made
available for all the sections of society ranging from the kings to the poor commoners. The
system was established in such a way that not only the citizens of his country were benefitted but
along with that the people from different parts of the world were also helped. At present we need

to come up with new methodologies for improving the public distribution system so that every
section of human population is provided with all the essential requirements to sustain their life.
ECONOMIC SOLUTION: Joseph regulated the money which came through the sale of food
crops very wisely for the development of his country. The money didn’t get accumulated in the
hands of only few but was circulated through legal channels and was rightly invested so that the
country as a whole can become prosperous. Proper monitoring and channelizing of the flow of
money and its investment in the right sectors can truly bring enormous growth and financial
stability to the economic condition of the country.
SAVING THE HUMANITY: God wants to intervene in our situations and provide solutions
for the problems of the humanity but for that He requires faithful people like Joseph who would
completely rely and trust in His ways and obediently execute every instruction that He gives for
the good of everyone. If only we can follow God’s guidance with all our heart like Joseph we
will be able to save our people and provide a better future for all.

REVELATIONS FOR HUMANITY CHAPTER IV
CONTENTS:
 Introduction
 God the True Creator
 Greatest and Smallest Creations
 God’s Master Piece
 Creation Exploited
 The Potentiality of Man’s Innovations to solve problems of Humanity through
Divine Revelations
 Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
We are surrounded by testaments to the remarkable human capacity to solve problems. In our
daily lives we depend upon technological solutions to the practical problems of living within the
world. Our clothes, our houses, our telephones, our cars and so on through endless material
items, solve the problems that arise from the interaction of our desires with the environments
within which we live. Occasionally in our lives we require extraordinary technological solutions,
such as medical equipment when we become ill. Indeed perhaps it is in the domain of medicine
that the human capacity for solving problems is most valued and has its greatest achievements.
That capacity lies within individual human minds, and more effectively within the collaboration
of minds, either by one person building upon the knowledge gained by previous generations, or
by the joint research of many specialists, each of whom can add a tiny snippet to the solution of a
problem that is too great for any single mind alone. There are, of course, other sorts of problems
that humans try to solve beyond those of medicine, or those which involve technical innovations.
GOD THE TRUE CREATOR

A. God Created the Universe
The Bible clearly mentions that God created the universe out of nothing. This means that before
God began to create the universe, nothing else existed except God himself. This is the
implication of Genesis 1:1, which says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth”. The phrase ‘the heavens and the earth’ includes the entire universe. Psalm 33 also tells
us, “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his
mouth....”. For he spoke, and it came to be. Universal statement at the beginning of John’s
gospel: “All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was
made”.(John 1:3). The phrase ‘all things’ is best taken to refer to the entire universe (cf. Acts
17:24; Heb. 11:3).
Colossians 1 specifies all the parts of the universe, both visible and invisible things: “For in him
all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible whether thrones or
dominions or principalities or authorities, all things were created through him and for him”. (Col.
1:16). The song of the twenty-four elders in heaven likewise affirms this truth: “You are worthy,

our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things and by your
will they existed and were created.”(Rev. 4:11)
B. Creation Is Distinct From God Yet Always Dependent on God

The teaching of Scripture about the relationship between God and creation is unique among the
religions of the world. The Bible teaches that God is distinct from his creation. He is not part of
it, for he has made it and rules over it. The term often used to say that God is much greater than
creation is the word transcendent. Very simply, this means that God is far ‘above’ the creation in
the sense that he is greater than the creation and he is independent of it.
God is also very much involved in creation, for it is continually dependent on him for its
existence and its functioning. The God of the Bible is no abstract deity removed from, and
uninterested in his creation. The Bible is the story of God’s involvement with his creation, and
particularly the people in it. Job affirms that even the animals and plants depend on God: “In his
hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind” (Job 12:10). In the New
Testament, Paul affirms that God “gives to all men life and breath and everything, and that ‘in
him we live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:25, 28). Indeed, in Christ ‘all things hold
together’ (Col. 1:17), and he is continually ‘upholding the universe by his word of power’ (Heb.
1:3).
The fact that creation is distinct from God yet always dependent on God, that God is far above
creation yet always involved in it (in brief, that God is both transcendent and immanent), may be
represented as in the figure 1.1
Figure 1.1: Creation Is Distinct from God yet Always Dependent on God (God
Is both Transcendent and Immanent)
This is clearly distinct from materialism which is the most common philosophy of
unbelievers today, and which denies the existence of God altogether. Materialism
would say that the material universe is all there is. It may be represented as in figure
1.2.
Figure 1.2: Materialism
Christians today who focus almost the entire effort of their lives on earning more money and
acquiring more possessions become ¡°practical¡± materialists in their activity, since their lives
would be not much different if they did not believe in God at all.

GREATEST AND SMALLEST CREATIONS:
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that
my soul knoweth right well” (Ps. 139:14). Man is God’s greatest creation! There is nothing on
the universe that will ever be the exact same way without man. Man has been equipped by God
to create his own environment. All of the rest of God’s creation is completely comfortable in its
own environment, while man is disoriented and uncomfortable in his. That’s because we were
equipped by God to create our own environment.
How powerful is the mind of man, the electrical system of the human body, the blood that
circulates through hundreds of miles of passage way through the human body every 33 seconds.
This is how God has created man! We have marvelous mental faculties that no other form of life
has. We have thought, perception, imagination, intuition and the will. We must take the time to
learn how to use these properly in order to create the life we want.
Malcolm Gladwell said: “If you work hard, if you assert yourself, if use your mind and your
imagination, you can literally shape the world according to your desires.” There is no other form
of life that can do that! The Bible says it like this: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”
(Proverbs 23:7). Man are truly God’s highest form of creation. Think about it. Man is indeed
special to God. The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:27 “So God created mankind in his own image, in
the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Being created in the
likeness of God is indeed an incredible statement.
GOD’S MASTERPIECE:
Man is God’s own masterpiece. That means, man is not ordinary or average creation of God, but
the best. When God created man, He went to great length to make him exactly the way He
wanted him unlike other creatures.
Genesis 1:27; 2:7
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of he ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 1:27; 2:7)
When we consider, the CREATION of man as revealed in the Bible,we read: “So God created
man in his own image” (1:27) Man was placed in a peaceful and beautiful garden with a
favorable environment around him. Here man lived in perfect fellowship with God his Maker.
Unclouded by personal sin he enjoyed the safety of knowing that he would never need to
experience fear, pain, tears or death. Eden was indeed a place of perfect righteousness and
holiness. The Bible speaks of three creative acts of God as recorded in Genesis. Sometime in the
dateless past we are told that “God created the heaven and the earth” (1:1). On the fifth day the
creation of animal life took place (1:20-24). The creation of human life took place on the sixth
day. A general description of man's creation is found in these words: “And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul” (2:7).

Man is the crown and culmination of all God's creation. There is no creation so great as man. He
is the most excellent of God's creations dwelling upon the earth. The Psalmist David had this in
mind when he wrote: “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned
him with glory and honor” (Psalms 8:5). If we want to come closer to the Hebrew meaning we
may translate it this way: “Yet thou hast made him a little less than God.” But not only was man
created superior to all other creatures in this world, he was formed and fashioned with the
solemn counsel of the Holy Trinity. He had the stamp of divine approval upon him.
CREATION EXPLOITED:
Humanity was the crown of God's creation. After God had finished creating everything else He
made man and woman. He then gave them authority over all of His creation. Does God's
dominion mandate encourage humanity to do what they want to do with our planet? Many blame
the current ecological problems that earth has on the Christian and their view toward nature.
However the exploitation of nature is not something that the Bible encourages.
God Is The Owner: The Bible makes it clear that God owns the natural world. The earth is the
LORDS, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it (Psalm 24:1). Humanity has
been given the stewardship over God's creation, we are looking after it for His sake. However,
ultimately it is owned by Him.
The reason humanity has been given dominion over God's creation is because we have been
made in God's image - unlike the animal kingdom or the rest of God's creation. The Bible does
not teach that humans are on the same level as the animal kingdom, or the physical world that
God has made. Only human beings has been made in the image of God, only we are responsible
for taking care of God's created order. Human beings have been made for eternity, the animals
and the heavens and earth are here only temporarily. The Bible says that God placed Adam in
the Garden of Eden to take care of it. The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it (Genesis 2:15).
Though nature is not equated with humanity, it is nevertheless important. For the believer, nature
has real value. It is the realm in which God has placed humanity over. The command in Genesis
to have dominion over nature makes humanity responsible for the proper upkeep of God's
creation. Those who would blame Christians for exploiting nature do not have a proper
understanding of the various roles that humanity, the animal kingdom, and nature have in God's
eternal program. Only we have been made for eternity—animals and the created order will
perish. However, God is the ultimate owner of the natural world and He has delegated that
responsibility to us. We are the ones charged with the proper upkeep of God's creation. Therefore
the Bible encourages us to properly take care of that which belongs to God.
THE POTENTIALITY OF MAN’S INNOVATIONS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF
HUMANITY THROUGH DIVINE REVELATIONS.
How can humanity be saved from its many troubles? In our society today, we usually offer the
following solutions:
1. Education: If everyone gets a good education, then everyone will get a good job, and then
everyone will be happy.

2. Science: Good education will also lead to better science, and science will solve problems
such as disease, starvation, environmental degradation, limited resources, and human behavior
problems. Maybe science will even solve the problem of aging and death.
3. Democracy: If all people live in a democracy, they will all have a fair hearing and get their
basic rights.
4. Capitalism: If all people live under free market capitalism, wealth will be maximized.
5. Military strength: If we have a strong military, then we can protect what we have; no one
can take it from us; we will be safe.
But in the midst of this world that demands logic, practicality, and power, Paul offers a very
different message: God heals the world through a man who was crucified in humiliation. The
world is not saved through power, but what looks like weakness. The world is not saved through
human smartness, but what looks like utter foolishness. God is saving us through the power of
weakness: the power of self-giving and humbleness. God is saving us through the wisdom of
foolishness: the wisdom of obedience and trust in a self-giving God.
In recent centuries humanity has made great strides in overcoming the obstacles of nature. We
can house and feed and clothe ourselves better than ever. We can communicate almost instantly
and travel halfway around the world in a day. We have made progress against many diseases and
maladies that do much to increase our lifespan and comfort. Nevertheless, we still have war,
oppression, hatred, bigotry, crime, overpopulation, poverty, and unnecessary destruction of the
environment. These are not problems that can be solved by technology alone, since they require
improving human behavior. Many of us have felt the frustration that humanity, despite all its
enormous advances, cannot do better at solving social problems. We are held back by our
inability to cooperate. Far too much of our effort and resources are wasted in conflict, and the
conflict hurts even those who are not part of the fight.
If we want the world to improve, we can't wait for other people to sacrifice their own interests to
do it. We cannot count on the rich and powerful to "do the right thing". That's not how they got
rich and powerful.
Every problem in life has a solution that is stated in the Word of God; thus, Scripture establishes
the fact that God can solve all problems in the human race. Yet, today God reveals Himself and
His teachings through the written pages of the Bible, which we call the Word of God, the mind
of Christ, and the voice of the Holy Spirit. The definition of inspiration is that God so
supernaturally directed the human writers of Scripture that without waiving their personal
feelings, human intelligence, literary style, or any human factor, His complete and accurate
message toward mankind was recorded. The original languages of Scripture are the very words
that bear the authority of God’s divine authorship.
Understanding the Divine Revelations in Problem-Solving Methods:

The problem-solving methods positioned within the stream of consciousness of our soul provide
an accurate and objective application of those learned methods to our experience as believers.

Doctrinal truth is applied to experience by learning and using the problem-solving methods. The
problem-solving methods are the only means of applying biblical truth in our mind to the outside
pressures of adversity or to prosperity. When you apply God’s Word apart from any one of the
problem-solving methods, it is inaccurate, it is distorted, and inevitably it leads to false doctrinal
conclusions.
The problem-solving methods are how you relate doctrinal truth to your experience and this is
how sharing the happiness of God is developed. The application of doctrinal truth to experience
establishes spiritual values that are not shaken by anything you see or hear in your experience.
Spiritual values are established through the application of doctrinal truth to your reality. This
same truth circulating in our stream of consciousness of our soul is the mirror into which we can
look and see ourselves as we really are or what could be referred to as having an objective self-
evaluation. God’s methods for solving problems provide the basis for our decisions and values.
God’s biblical truth changes your values in life that are related to your decisions. Having God’s
methods in our stream of consciousness of our soul establishes right priorities and true spiritual
values, which causes us to be able to fulfill the protocol plan of God. Protocol is a reference, a
set of rules or code of behavior. There is a precise set of rules within God’s perfect plan that we
are not to deviate from at all. These rules are the code of behavior mandated for every born-again
child of God.
The mastering of God’s problem-solving methods will result in us having a relaxed mental
attitude powered with God’s happiness regardless of whether we find ourselves in a moment of
prosperity or difficulty. The key to our spiritual growth is to face every circumstance in life from
the viewpoint of God's problem-solving methods as we apply them to all of our circumstance and
advance in our spiritual growth. Our problem-solvers from God are designed to defuse the
mental anguish that might invade our mind. These problem-solvers from the Lord are designed
to take priority in our life since they are all based on God’s Word, and without them being
prioritized appropriately, they will never be able to be used effectively.
CONCLUSION
Every problem in life has a solution that is stated in the Word of God; thus, Scripture establishes
the fact that God can solve all problems in the human race. Yet, today God reveals Himself and
His teachings through the written pages of the Bible, which we call the Word of God, the mind
of Christ, and the voice of the Holy Spirit. The definition of inspiration is that God so
supernaturally directed the human writers of Scripture that without waiving their personal
feelings, human intelligence, literary style, or any human factor, His complete and accurate
message toward mankind was recorded. The original languages of Scripture are the very words
that bear the authority of God’s divine authorship.
God is the utmost problem-solver, what resources does he provide for his people to solve the
problems they encounter? He offers us resources that transcend our own; the problem is that we
are generally disinclined to lay hold of them. God appoints leaders who must face and solve
problems through God’s help. Daniel provides us with a stunning example of problem solving
ability in Daniel 5. Leaders are shepherds, mentors and equippers – all of these descriptions
demand relationships. A leader’s authority does not come from title or position; it comes from
character, competence and a willingness to invest in other people’s lives. As Greg Johnson points

out, “We aren’t the persons of God but the people of God.” Our new life in Christ is to be lived
out in the context of community, under the authority of others, with our destinies interconnected
to theirs. It’s one thing to be able to solve problems for yourself, but, as we have seen, biblical
leaders use their problem-solving ability to assist others and advance God’s kingdom purposes.

UNIT - II
 God’s View of Life
 Setbacks in Life
 Sacredness in Life
 Heroes of Faith

GOD’S VIEW OF LIFE CHAPTER I
CONTENTS:
 Introduction “We don’t see things as

 Life On Earth Is A Test they are, we see them as
 Life On Earth Is A Trust we are.” – Anais Nin
 Life Is A Temporary Assignment
 Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
The way we see our life shapes our life. Our life determines our destiny. Our perspective will
influence how we invest our time, spend our money, use our talents, and value our
relationships. Different people have different view of life, for some life is a puzzle, a circus, a
minefield, a roller coaster, a symphony, a journey and a dance. People have said, “Life is a
roller coaster: sometimes you are up, sometimes you are down, and sometimes you just go
round and round.” “Life is a game of cards: You have to play the hand you are dealt.” It’s the
view of life we hold consciously or unconsciously in our mind.
If we think life is a party, our primary value in life will be having fun.
If you see life as a race, you will value speed.
If you view life as a marathon, you will value endurance.
If you see life as a battle or a game, winning will be very important to you.
The Scriptures offer three metaphors that teach us God’s view of life:
LIFE ON EARTH IS A TEST

God continually tests people’s character, faith, obedience, love, integrity and loyalty.
Character is both developed and reveled by tests. We are always being tested. God constantly
watches our response to people, problems, success, conflict, illness, disappointment and even
the weather. He even watches the simplest actions such as when we open a door for others,
when we pick up a piece of trash or when we are polite towards someone. We will be tested by
major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved
criticism and even senseless tragedies. Every incident in our life will deepen the character and
improve the quality of our life. The Scripture says, God will not allow us to be tested beyond
our power to remain firm; at the time we are put to the test, He will give us the strength to
endure it and provide a way out.
"When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.”
"Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.”

LIFE ON EARTH IS A TRUST
Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships and resources are all
gifts from God that he has entrusted to our care and management. We are stewards of whatever
God gives us. We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. When God created
Adam and Eve he gave humans to manage and take care of God’s stuff on earth. Everything we
enjoy is to be treated as a trust that God has place in our hands.
In the story of the talents, a businessman entrusts his wealth to the care of his servants and goes
to a far off country. When he returns he evaluates each servant’s responsibility and rewards
them accordingly. The owner says, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your
master’s happiness.”
At the end of our life we will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well we handled
what God entrusted to us from the simple daily chores to achievements of our life.
If we treat everything as a trust, God promises three rewards in eternity:

1. Affirmation – At the end of our life, God says, “Good job! Well done!
2. Promotion - We will be given greater responsibility in eternity “I will put you in charge of
many things.”
3. Celebration – “Come and share your Master’s happiness” we will enjoy our life being with
God forever free from all the worries the world brings in our life.
DID YOU KNOW?
Money is both a test and a trust from God. God watches

how we use money to test how trustworthy we are.
LIFE IS A TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT

Life is described as a mist, a fast runner, a breath and a wisp of smoke. We need to remember
“I am here on earth for just a little while.” The Scripture reminds that life on earth is a
temporary home and this is not permanent. The Scripture uses terms like alien, pilgrim,
foreigner, stranger, visitor and traveler to describe our brief stay on earth. In this temporary life
we are constantly entertained, amused and catered to all fascinating attractions, mesmerizing
media, and enjoyable experience today. “The things we see now are here today, gone
tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.” Earth is not our ultimate home.

An old story is told about a retiring missionary who spreads God’s Love to different parts of
the world. One fine day he was returning back home to America on the same boat as the
President of the United States. Cheering crowds, a military band, a red carpet, bannders and the
media welcomed the President home but no one noticed the missionary. He felt very bad and
started complaining to God. Then God gently reminded him, “ But my child, you are not home
yet.”
GOD’S HALL OF FAME
“All great people died in faith. They did not get the things that God promised his
people, but they saw them coming far in the future and were glad. They said they
were like visitors and strangers on earth……. They were waiting for a better country
– A HEAVENLY COUNTRY. So God is not ashamed to be called their God,
because he has prepared a city for them.”
CONCLUSION:
God’s goal of our life is not material prosperity, popular success as the world defines it. In
God’s eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success and
power in this life, but those who treat this life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully,
expecting the promised reward in eternity. At death we won’t leave home – we will go home.
THINKING ABOUT MY PURPOSE
Points to Ponder: Life is a test and a trust. This world is not my home.
Questions to consider:
 What has happened to me recently that I now realize was a test from God?
 What are the greatest matters God has entrusted to me?
 How should the fact that life on earth is just a temporary assignment change
the way I am living right now?

SETBACKS IN LIFE CHAPTER II
CONTENTS:
 Introduction
 Meaning
 Correlation between Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life
 Consequences of Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life
 Relationship with God
 Relationship with the family
 Relationship with the friends
 On one’s self
 Other consequences
 How to avoid setbacks in life
 Conclusion
Introduction:
Everyone experiences some form of a setback, adversity, failure or loss in at least one area of
their life. Setbacks and adversity are often signals that some aspect of life has come to an end or
needs to come to an end. They are wake-up calls or choice points in life.
Everyone has desires, some secret, some open but not all desires are satisfied, not all are met,
and not all yielded to. Sometimes a desire overcomes reason and even physical abilities.
Sometimes the desire is sexual, sometimes ambition, sometimes greed for power or money.
The five senses; taste, touch, smell, hearing, and seeing, all report to the carnal mind. These
senses are the one which tempt us! The lust of the flesh includes tasting, touching, smelling, and
hearing. The lust of the eyes is seeing. The pride of life is thinking you are special because of
who you are, what you have, what you know, or what you look like. These three things, the lust
of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, entice us to sin.
Meaning:
Setbacks:
Setbacks can be explained as “An unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that
is thwarting or frustrating”
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,
is not of the Father, but is of the world” For all that is in the world - That is, all that really
constitutes the world, or that enters into the aims and purposes of those who live for this life. All
that, that community lives for may be comprised under the following three things:
1. The Lust of the Flesh

2. The Pride of Life
3. The Lust of the Eyes

Lust: The word "lust" is used here in the general sense of desire, or that which is the object of
desire - not in the narrow sense in which it is now commonly used to denote libidinous passion.
The lust of the flesh - The lust of the flesh, denotes that which pampers the appetites, or all that
is connected with the indulgence of the mere animal propensities. To explain further, lust of
flesh is the sensual and impure desires which seek their gratification in women, strong drink,
delicious viands, and the like.
The lust of the eyes - That which is designed merely to gratify the sight. Lust of the eyes -
Inordinate desires after finery of every kind, gaudy dress, splendid houses, gorgeous furniture,
expensive equipage, trappings, decorations of all sorts, pornography, movies, lustful look and so
on. The object is to refer to the frivolous vanities of this world, the thing on which the eye
delights to rest where there is no higher object of life.
The pride of life - The word here used means, properly, ostentation or boasting, and then
arrogance or pride. It refers to whatever there is that tends to promote pride, or that is an index of
pride, such as the ostentatious display of dress, equipage, furniture, hunting after honors, titles,
and pedigrees; boasting of ancestry, family connections, great offices, honorable acquaintance,
and the like.
The things that fall under different category are listed below:
Lust of the flesh Lust of the Eyes The Pride of Life

a. Eating addictions a. Greed (desire for possessions) a. Craving for attention
b. Sexual addictions b. Stinginess and hoarding b. Craving for position
c. Drug addictions c. Selfishness (unwillingness to c. Craving for authority
d. Fitness addictions share) d. Craving for identity
e. Alcohol addictions d. Envy (desiring what others have) e. Craving for appreciation
f. Adultery e. Laziness (slothfulness)
g. Fornication f. Materialism
h. Illicit sexual conduct g. Pornography
i. Pre-marital sex h. Watching prohibited sites
j. Homosexuality
Correlation between Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life:

We can correlate these three to each another since one lust leads to another sin. To make it clear,
just look at the incident mentioned in the scripture regarding Adam and Eve, the first human
creation. God created them in His own image and let them to be happy in the beautiful Garden
Eden. He gave them complete authority over the creatures giving them only one command. That
is: “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

So, in the symbolism of a tree, embodied three manifestations of all that is in the world. That is:
the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. We can find all the three channels
present in the fall of Eve.
1. The lust of the flesh was accomplished in that "The tree was good for food."
2. The lust of the eyes was fulfilled in that "It was pleasant to the eyes."
3. And the pride of life was achieved in Eve's belief that it was "A tree to be desired to make
one wise".
When you give yourself to the temptation through the eyes, that will become a window which is
let opened for all the setbacks to come into your life. Be careful of the things that take you away
from the path of righteousness.
Consequences of Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life:

Relationship with God:
 Grieving of the Lord.

 Displeasure of the One whose opinion most matters to me.
 Discrediting the name of God.
 Loss of reward and commendation from God.
 Forcing God to discipline us in various ways.
Relationship with the family
 Untold hurt to parents

 Loss of respect and trust
 Loss of example and credibility, nullifying influence on the family who need to build on
their relationships.
 Because of the present failure, future generations of your family may have difficulty in
this area.
 Shame to family.
 The probability that the parents might blame themselves of the happening or the society
might blame the upbringing.
 Pride might cause friction within the relationships.
Relationship with the friends:
 Shame and hurt to friends

 Shame and hurt to those you are closely associated with in the different assignments.
 Irretrievable loss of years of witnessing.
 Misleading others by the bad exemplary life.
 Following in the footsteps of others I know of whose immorality caused me to grieve.
 Pain to innocent people around me who would get hit by my shrapnel
 If pride enters, we tend to look down on people.
On one’s self:

 Shame and life-long embarrassment to oneself.
 Discrediting own name.
 Loss of self-respect.
 Terrible feelings of guilt are hard to shake; even though God would forgive me, would I
forgive myself?
 Plaguing memories and flashbacks that could taint future intimacy with the spouse.
 Failure in the area of sexual temptation may affect your ability to know “right from
wrong” in other important moral areas, having defiled your conscience.
 You seem to be righteous because of the pride; hence you lead yourselves to destruction.
Other consequences:
 Bringing great pleasure to the tempter, the enemy of God and all that is good.
 Laughter, rejoicing and blasphemous smugness by those who disrespect God
 Heaping judgment and endless problems on the person you committed sin with.
 Possible physical consequences (pregnancy from adultery, STD's, AIDS, etc.).
 You cannot accept your mistakes, if pride controls you.
 Pride motivates emotional sins, such as: fear, worry, anxiety, hatred, anger, violence,
murder, guilt and guilt complex, self-pity.
 Pride reproduces itself in jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge
motivation and function, inordinate ambition and competition, gossip, slander, maligning,
and judging.
 Pride transformed into self-righteousness produces legalism.
 The book of Proverbs speaks at great length about selfish pride and destruction it brings.
It reminds us that "when pride comes, then comes shame" (Prov. 11:2), and "by pride
comes nothing but strife" (Prov. 13:10), and warns us that "pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Prov. 16:18).
How to avoid setbacks in life:

● Sever All Bad Influences:
There are certain individuals who are simply called as bad influences. They will inspire you to
sin. Try not to negotiate or compromise with them. Nor do you try to understand their point of
view. If they are attempting to pull, steer, lead, seduce or coerce you away to commit sin, you
CUT THEM LOOSE! Go back and examine yourself to make sure that you have not allowed any
ungodly soul ties, flesh ties or spiritual ties in your life. If you have, sever them immediately!
Don’t give place to the devil!
● Set No Wicked Things Before Your Eyes:

The key here is that you don’t set these things before your eyes. REMEMBER! This is not a
game! This is all out war! Your very life is at stake and this strategy is designed to shock your
flesh! If you are not willing to take these extreme measures, stop deceiving yourself; you are not
serious about being made whole! If certain things stir up your flesh to commit unrighteousness,
you need to clean house and eliminate them! That includes magazines, television shows, certain
commercials, movies, photographs, etc.

● Take Heed To What You Hear:
There are certain songs, lyrics, speeches and lectures that will inspire a spirit of fornication or
adultery. Others will incite homosexuality, lesbianism, overeating, domestic violence, bulimia,
hatred and lying. You must take heed to what you hear and be ready to instantly reject words that
inflame you to transgress against the will of God for your life.
● Take Authority Over Your Mind:

When fantasies, daydreams and unrighteous thoughts attempt to infiltrate and dominate your
mind, you must cast down those imaginations immediately! If you let them germinate, take root
and spring up, they will become a fierce overbearing stronghold! One of the primary reasons
people struggle with addictions and sexual sins is that they fail or refuse to take authority over
their mind.
● Flee From Temptations Of The Flesh:

You cannot flirt, toy or dally with sin and come out unscathed. When you are confronted with
temptations, (food, sexual, financial or otherwise), you must flee! There can be no other options!
● Surround Yourself with people who will lead you towards good: You must examine the
people you associate with and befriend. Are they sharpening or dulling your life? If so, you’ll
need to sever ties. You must surround yourself with individuals who sharpen you spiritually and
hold you accountable.
● Submit Yourself to a Season of Prayer : - There are times when the battle with your flesh
will be so intense, you will need to take the drastic measure of resorting to a season or seasons of
prayer and fear of God. Fear of God disciplines your flesh and reminds your body who’s in
command and prayer charges up your spiritual batteries. When you combine these two powerful
weapons, your flesh experiences Shock and Awe like never before!
● Strategies certain principles: You’ll need to plan in advance to shut everything down for a
couple of days: telephones, e-mail, television, family, friends and neighbors. It may take more
than a couple of days, but whatever it takes to win the war with your flesh, you must be willing
to do it, or your flesh will own you!
● Understand the sinfulness of pride:

Many tend to treat the sin of pride like a neighborhood dog. We know it can bite us, but for some
reason we don’t think it will bite us. The truth is, it will devour us. Until we understand the
danger of this sin, and begin taking it seriously, we will never overcome it.
● Look at the examples of humble people: Surround yourself with humble men and women. It
is unfortunate that we tend to look for other qualities in friends and mentors. Success, expertise
and giftedness get far more attention than the quality of meekness.

Conclusion
Those who fill their lives with "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life"
need to be advised and warned, for "the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who
does the will of God abides forever"
Matthew Henry, a commentator wrote: "The things of the world quickly fade and die away;
desire itself will ere long fail and cease, but holy affection is not like the lust that passes away.
The love of God shall never fail. Many vain efforts have been made to evade the force of this
passage by limitations, distinctions, or exceptions. Many have tried to show how far we may be
carnally-minded, and love the world; but the plain meaning of these verses cannot easily be
mistaken. Unless this victory over the world is begun in the heart, a man has no root in himself,
but will fall away, or at most remain an unfruitful professor. Yet these vanities are so alluring to
the corruption in our hearts, that without constant watching and prayer, we cannot escape the
world, or obtain victory over the god and prince of it."
Make no mistake about it; the conflict with your flesh is one of the most hostile wars you will
fight. As long as you live in the earth realm, you will have to battle with your body daily. Left
unchecked, your flesh will run buck wild!
We all wish life can be rosy and peachy always for everyone, including ourselves. When things
are going great enjoy it and when things are down, improve upon the situation slowly. Life is all
about learning new things.

SACREDNESS IN LIFE CHAPTER III
CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Visible and Invisible Life
 Vitality of Sacredness in Life
 Eradication of Worries
 Benefits of Blessings
 Greatness of Friendship
 Purity in Thought
 Love and Compassion
 Conclusion
Introduction:
We live in a materialistic society where everything is done with profit in mind, money has
become a god for everyone and whether we like it or not, it rules our lives if we allow it. The
standard of living is very high and all things increase in value constantly except morals, respect,
and "life" which is the most sacred thing. Human beings in most cases are not the fruit of a love
relationship any more, they seem to be accidents that if lucky to survive have to struggle in a
world without love. Life is the creation of our God, and therefore is sacred.
We live in a materialistic society where everything is done with profit in mind, money has
become a god for everyone and whether we like it or not, it rules our lives if we allow it. The
standard of living is very high and all things increase in value constantly except morals, respect,
and "life" which is the most sacred thing. Human beings in most cases are not the fruit of a love
relationship any more, they seem to be accidents that if lucky to survive have to struggle in a
world without love. Life is the creation of our God, and therefore is sacred.
I. VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE LIFE:
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see
rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most valuable things in life cannot be seen with the naked eye: love, friendship, hope,
integrity, trust, compassion. These are the things that bring substance, fulfillment, and lasting
joy to our lives.
And things like music, scents, silence, and memories add richness to our lives every day.
But too often, we spend our time and energy chasing things that are visible – beautiful homes,
fast cars, larger paychecks, or more fashionable clothing. We dream of a future that includes
those things. We plot and plan to acquire them. We go to great lengths to care for them and we
become jealous when others have more of them. Yet, those things have never fully satisfied our
soul or brought us the fulfillment that they promised.

Instead,
 Their appeal always dims.

 Their value always decreases.
 Their appearance always fades.
 And their satisfaction diminishes every day.
It is time to shift our focus. It is time to allow the invisible to triumph over the visible in our
eyes, minds, and hearts. To embrace the invisible over the visible,
1. Decide to pursue the invisible. Most changes in life are preceded by a simple decision.
Decide today to assign more value to the invisible things of life.
2. Offer the invisible room in your heart and mind. Our actions are almost
always determined by our heart’s desires and our mind’s thoughts. Give room in your
heart for the invisible. Find time each day to intentionally think about such things –
especially at the beginning of each day.
3. Bring the invisible into better focus. Unfortunately, the old cliché is often true, “Out of
sight, out of mind.” So turn it around and use it to your advantage. What comes into your
mind when you think about joy, hope, relationships, or significance? Post that photo or
quote somewhere that you can see it to remind you of its value. This will help keep the
invisible visible in your mind.
4. Be wise to culture’s influence. Most of the Western world is built on humanity’s desire
to acquire more and more things. It makes economies grow, governments flourish, and
brings appeasement to the masses. Therefore, it is encouraged at every turn. Become wise
to their desires and learn to recognize their false promises.
5. Pursue it at all costs. If the most valuable things in life are invisible, pursue them above
everything else. Even if no one else is.
The best things in life really are free… and invisible.
II. VITALITY OF SACREDNESS IN LIFE:
Over the years we might have come across tragedies upon tragedies. We read them, we are
horrified by them and then because we hear so many we become desensitized and go about our
own life without too much reflection on the sacredness of our own lives. If you compare our
lives to the hundreds of thousands of galaxies in the solar system, if you compare our lives to the
billions of years that our earth and galaxy have existed, our time on this earth is very, very brief.
When we talk about sacredness of life, we have to keep in mind we have no guarantee as to how
long we are going to be on this earth. All we have is our family today. All we have is each other
today.
Our experiences with the divine may not be as direct or dramatic nor our challenges as daunting.
However, our strength to endure faithfully depends upon recognizing, remembering, and holding
sacred that which we receive from above.

The opposite of sacred is profane or secular—that which is temporal or worldly. The worldly
constantly competes with the sacred for our attention and priorities. Knowledge of the secular is
essential for our daily temporal living. Lets seek learning and wisdom, to study and learn out of
the best books, and to become acquainted with languages, tongues, and people. Therefore, the
choice to place the sacred above the secular is one of relative priority, not exclusivity; “to be
learned is good if [we] hearken unto the counsels of God”. Let’s always recognize, remember,
and hold sacred that which we have received from above. As we do, we will have power to
endure the trials and overcome the challenges of our day.
III. ERADICATION OF WORRIES:
Worries should be completely eradicated as it slowly kills an individual. It is a slow poison.

When we have lots of expectations and desires in life and if they are not fulfilled, first it turns out
as disappointment and when we keep thinking about the same thought, it gets stagnated and turns
in to a physical disease and mental worry. There will be an imbalance in the energy level
because of the thoughts. The chewing of the same thoughts which affects will avoid the flow of
fresh energies and the body becomes too weak to be active even to do the daily routines. We
won’t feel hungry and slowly the body becomes diseased.
There are many kinds of problems that we come across.
 Problems that can be inborn: For example nagging from people. Just ignore them.
 Problems to be kept in abeyance, knowing the fact that they will be solved by the society or
by the law of nature in due course: under this category come most of the problems. These
problems cannot be solved by an individual effort but by nature and community when the
time comes. One simple example is cure of a disease being delayed. Only time will answer
or solve to certain problems and we have to wait patiently instead of brooding over the
matter.
 Problems that could be solved immediately: For example buying loan and decision to take at
the time of operation. Decisions should be taken at once as the conditions should not worsen
by delaying.
If one can keep the mind calm always, then any problem could be solved effectively before it
turns out in to worry. If the mind is well balanced then one can understand the circumstances,
accept the situation and then face the reality without hurting our body and mind. So for
everything, whether it is desires, anger or worries, the best solution is mediation and
introspection.
Four Reasons not to worry:
Over the span of our lifetime, worrying accounts for hours and hours of invaluable time that we
will never get back. So we need to decide to spend time more wisely and more enjoyable.
1) Worrying Accomplishes Absolutely Nothing.

Worrying is a waste of very precious time. Worrying won't help us solve a problem or bring
about a solution, so why waste our time and energy on it? “Can all your worries add a single

moment to your life? And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how
they grow. They don't work or make their clothing”
2) Worrying is not good for a person.
Worrying is destructive to us in many ways. It becomes a mental burden that can even cause us
to grow physically sick. Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.
3) Worrying is the Opposite of Trusting God.

The energy that we spend worrying can be put to much better use in prayer. Here's a little
formula to remember: Worry replaced by Prayer equals Trust.
“And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers those are here today and thrown into the fire
tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank
him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can
understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”
4) Worrying Puts our Focus in the Wrong Direction.

When we keep our eyes focused on God, we remember His love for us and we realize we truly
have nothing to worry about. God has a wonderful plan for our lives, and part of that plan
includes taking care of us. Even in the difficult times, when it seems like God doesn't care, we
can put our trust in the Lord God will take care of our every need.
“So don't worry about these things, saying, 'What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we
wear?' These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already
knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will
give you everything you need”
“Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.”
IV. BENEFITS OF BLESSINGS
What is a Blessing?
Blessing is “To infuse with Divinity, or with one’s hopes.” Blessing seems to be our way of
sending love, energy, gratitude or healing from our heart into something or someone that seems
to be in need or somehow worthy of deserving a gift or demonstration of appreciation or love.
One of the greatest gifts God gave us is the ability to be a blessing to others. Each and every day
we have an opportunity to be a blessing to someone else and wonder how often we use this gift.
Perhaps we should try to reach out to help someone in need irrespective of any sorts of
discrimination. May be if each day we decide to be a blessing to someone, at least once per day
our world would be a better place and we would be happier people on earth. Even if we just say a
kind word, give a compliment, throw a smile, or share a hug with someone when they are having
a disastrous day, we are really blessing to one another. Let us live our best life by being a
blessing to others.

When we decide to see all our blessings and become a blessing to someone else our world will
change. Let us make a difference in the lives of others and live for your blessings.
With cell phones ringing, emails coming in, twitters chirping and facebook updates, how often
do we see the abundant blessings around us? Do we take time to view the beautiful flowers, hear
the sound of the chirping birds, smell the fresh cut grass, watch children laughing, enjoy the taste
of our favorite food and realize these are all wonderful blessings in our daily lives? So much of
everyday beautiful things are taken for granted or overlooked these days that we have to be
thankful for and pay attention to. All around us are blessings by the minute as we complain
about trivial things. Not only are we surrounded by blessings we ourselves are a blessing. Isn’t it
awesome?
People pray to God to bless them because they don’t see the blessings of God operating in their
life (God’s grace build on nature). But not seeing the blessings operating in our day today life
does not mean we are not blessed. It means we have failed to release or experience or appreciate
the blessings of God into our life. It is up to us to release the blessings of God into our life.
Whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever we loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven. We bind and loose with our words of blessings. And sometime people loose
curses and bind the blessing. Blessings and curses come out of the same mouth.
V. GREATNESS OF FRIENDSHIP
True friendship is perhaps the only relation that survives the trials and tribulations of time and
remains unconditional. A unique blend of affection, loyalty, love, respect, trust and loads of fun
is perhaps what describes the true meaning of friendship. Similar interests, mutual respect and
strong attachment with each other are what friends share between each other. These are just the
general traits of a friendship. To experience what is friendship, one must have true friends, who
are indeed rare treasure.
Friendship is a feeling of comfort and emotional safety with a person. It is when you do not have
to weigh your thoughts and measure words, before keeping it forth before your friend. It is when
someone knows you better than yourself and assures to be your side in every emotional crisis. It
is when you can sleep fighting and get another morning with a better understanding. Friendship
is much beyond roaming together and sharing good moments, it is when someone comes to
rescue you from the worst phase of life. Friendship is eternal.
Different people have different definitions of friendship. For some, it is the trust in an individual
that he/she won’t hurt you. For others, it is unconditional love. There are some who feel that
friendship is companionship. People form definitions based on the kind of experiences they have
had. This is one relation that has been nurtured since time immemorial. They say a person who
has found a faithful friend has found a priceless treasure.
Psychologically speaking, friendship may be defined as ‘a dynamic, mutual relationship between

two individuals. As children become friends, they negotiate boundaries within which both
partners function. This helps them to function like healthy individuals in life as they learn to
draw a line as and when needed in a relation. This greatly helps in the emotional development of

an individual. However, any relation needs constant nurturing and development from all the
people that are involved in one. Friendship cannot survive if one person makes all the effort to
sustain it without any mutual recognition from others.
Since friendship starts the moment a child starts socializing, the kind of friends that the child
chooses should be taken care of till the time he/she learns to differentiate between right and
wrong. Wrong peers or lack of socializing can lead to severe psychological traumas and
disorders, finally leading to social maladjustment. The correct peer group is essential for the
development of the personality of a child. Both positive and negative experiences refine the
personality of the individual. Thus it is essential that you find friends who are compatible with
you on an emotional and psychological basis.
Importance of friendship:
The value of being generous in their relationships with others is most important. Adults, make a
big mistake in over estimating the capacity of the young untrained mind. For years they are on
the receiving end. They receive clothing, education, food and all the comforts of life. But it is
rare that during that time of formation they are asked to give. And because they are asked to give
so little. They are oftentimes unable to give of the qualities that are needed to develop a
friendship.
Giving of one’s self is the most demanding requirement in the cultivation of friendship. A young
person has to be taught that we don’t develop a friendship just for the sake of what we can get.
We can cultivate friendship because we know as a person we can enrich, inspire and help
another. A true friend has no expectation of ever being repaid for something that he has done for
you. The real test of generosity is seen in this fashion. When a crisis has passed, the recipient,
have no feeling of obligation or indebtedness. This is what Christ had in mind when he said.
“Greater love than this no one has than he who lays down his life for another.”
Another quality that should be stressed in the development of friendship is the quality that we
call greatness of soul or magnanimity.
The third quality that should be stressed in the teaching of friendships is the importance of being
genuine. Many young people today can see through all the defenses and facades that many
adults have in their relationships with other adults. They refer to this as game playing or role
playing. But by and large, many of the normal young people of today have more hang ups than
the adults they criticize. And as a result, they are not real; they are not genuine in their
relationships with their peers. They might criticize their adults for having a double set of values,
but they are just as guilty of the same psychological crime. Because so many of them have such
a tremendous problem of finding their own identity or how to cope with their loneliness, they are
quite afraid to mention this to their peers less they be subject to embarrassment, humiliation or
criticism. And this inability to be genuine causes many of them to participate in practices that
are not only immoral but moral.
But friendships are not cultivated just to avoid social evil practices of the day. The motivations
have to be higher. Every friendship enriches your personality. A solid friendship enables us to
realize that in the presence of our friend that our secrets as well as our sins are sacred.

Friendship is an antidote for boredom and loneliness, but also a quality that enables us to grow
up in the friendship of God and in the sight of our neighbor. “A person who has this friendship
has a touch of heaven on earth.”
Choosing Friends:
1. We need to be wise in selecting friends
As we read through Proverbs we find characteristics that God says we are to look for in a friend.
These characteristics make someone a real and genuine friend; one who fits the profile that God
lays out for choosing friends. First God says that we need to choose friends who will love us for
who we are and who are committed to our friendship for the long haul. Proverbs 17:17 says: A
friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.
2. True friends are committed for life
They establish what they think is a friendship with someone and as soon as things get a little
rough or someone gets their feathers ruffled they bail and their time in that friendship is through.
A few years ago there was a country song out in which one woman counsels another woman not
to get involved with certain
THE QUALITIES OF FRIENDSHIP
True friendships can start instantly but they take time to build. Here are a few qualities to look
for when making friends.
1. A good friend is honest

A good friend may not share every detail of every second of their life, but they do try to be clear
about their intentions. This means that they try to present an accurate picture of who they are and
of different situations. When something doesn't seem right, they let us know.
2. A good friend is fun, unique and interesting

As for fun, it depends how we define it: Some friends are fun because they're the life of the
party; others are fun because they notice every strange little detail about a situation. Some people
are fun simply because they see life like no one else does.
3. A good friend is attentive and adaptable

A good friend is at least a fairly good listener and notices how little, day-to-day things affect.
They can't read our mind, but chances are they can usually tell when we are happy, sad, excited,
shocked or upset. If they're aware that they're doing something that annoys us, they try to change
their ways or at least talk to us about it.
4. A good friend is supportive of you and your goals

A really good friend will know what makes you tick and help you become the person you want
to be. They won't try to change who you are or drag you into situations that make you
uncomfortable or put you at risk of losing something that matters to you.

5. A good friend is a friend you can trust
A true friend won't try to steal your job or your personality. They won't gossip about you
constantly or try to damage your reputation. They will let you know when they're concerned and
do their best to stick up for you when you're in trouble.
6. A good friend makes it clear that they care about you
Different people may have different ways of letting you know that they care about you. One
person may give you a big hug whereas another person might gently tease you. A big clue that
someone cares is that they talk to you fairly often and, in general, know what's going on in your
life and act interested about it.
7. A good friend sticks with you in good times and bad

Loyalty is a quality almost everyone lists when asked what they look for in a friend. A loyal
friend will stick with you even in the toughest times of life.
8. A good friend accepts you for who you are, even when you're being a butthead
In friendship, being accepting goes hand in hand with being loyal. A true friend rolls with the
punches as you grow and change and know how to deal with your faults. They are also patient
with you when you make mistakes -- even big ones -- and learn how to forgive you when you
hurt them. In other words, they treat you as you'd like to be treated, even when you aren't at your
best.
VI. PURITY OF THOUGHT AND DEED
“Sow a thought, reap an act,

“Sow an act, reap a habit,
“Sow a habit, reap a character,
“Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny”
While we can’t always prevent impure thoughts from entering our minds, we can prevent them
from staying there. The important counsel on purifying our thoughts and lives:
1. First we must stop the flow into our minds of vulgar stories, jokes, pictures, conversation etc
2. Now assuming that we have cut off the flow – not cut it down, but cut it off – the second
thing we must do is to develop a filtering system that will cleanse the great reservoir of our
mind so that the life giving thoughts coming from it may again be pure and fit for our use.
THE SECRET OF CLEANSING OUR SPIRIT OF WHATEVER THE IMPURITY IS NOT
VERY COMPLICATED. IT BEGINS WITH PRAYER EVERY MORNING AND ENDS
WITH PRAYER EVERY NIGHT. This is the most important step in the cleansing process.
An added measure of spiritual purity can be found in a daily study of scriptures.
3. To feed refreshment to our spirit that comes when we do something good for another that he
or she does not expect. Keep it simple, but do it – daily. It may only be a hello, a smile, a
phone call, a thank you note.

The practice of the divine virtues makes one positive and powerful. When we are connected to
our inner divine virtues, there is peace and beauty in our minds. Thus we find that concentration
and memory power increase as every thought is connected to the inner divinity and positivity.
When we are not able to take clear decisions or not able to see things clearly, we need to check
the quality of our thoughts. We need to make effort to make our thoughts more pure and positive.
We can do this when we are able to connect to the divinity within. This will make us experience
power.
VII. LOVE AND COMPASSION
Love! Is what the entire world needs? Yes, of course. So goes the familiar line, ‘love, love and
love! All the world needs is love.” But in today’s society, the meaning of the word ‘love’ has
become so distorted that the real meaning of love has been diminished. Some view love as a
feeling, but it is more than that. It is a decision followed by action. Love is a commitment. In
this world we need to love one another. Someone once said the difference between sympathy
and compassion is that the one who sympathizes, sees and feels, but does nothing. The word
‘compassion’ means “To suffer with”. The one, who has compassion, feels and then does
something about the need.
Love and compassion are qualities that will accompany us throughout our entire spiritual
progression from the moment we first give rise to the enlightened attitude until we achieve
perfection itself. This love and compassion has an object that is all beings. By beings, we do not
simply mean those who are around us – humans. Anything that possesses a mind is a being.
And where there is a being there is suffering. Just as we have a mind and through this we
experience suffering, the same goes for all other types of beings. Here, we must distinguish
between that which is living and that which has mind. A living thing does not necessarily have a
mind. But where there is mind, there is consciousness and there is life. There are all kinds of
beings, some which are very small, like insects. The common misconception is to attribute
consciousness only to beings of a certain size. We often associate the existence of consciousness
first with a certain degree of intelligence and then to a given size.
In fact, even the tiniest and most miniscule of insects seeks pleasure and fears suffering. If we
try to touch the fin of a small fish, its initial reaction is to move away. If it is tamed, then it may
recognize the hand that feeds it to be a source of satisfaction. It will then approach the hand
quite simply because in the same way as humans, it seeks a state of well being and flees
suffering.
Therefore, all beings, without any exception, should be the object of our love and compassion.
We need to cultivate the same attitude for all beings, as we would feel for our father, mother, or
those whom we love the most. In traditional cultures, particularly in the East, family ties are
extremely strong. The father and the mother are the people whom one reveres the most, and the
idea of any harm coming to them is unbearable. For this reason, when we meditate on the
enlightened attitude, we take this example considering all beings as our parents. Love,
compassion and tolerance are necessities not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot
survive.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. In our day today life we must be
a loving person. When we are motivated by love, it does not matter whether we are a
practitioner, a lawyer, a politician, an administrator, a worker, or an engineer: whatever our
profession or fields, deep down we need to be a loving person.
Love, compassion and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot
survive. The clear proof of a person’s love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to
fellow human beings.
HEROES OF FAITH CHAPTER IV

CONTENTS
 Introduction
 George Muller
 William Carey
 Mother Theresa
 Ida Scudder

Introduction:
What is a "HERO"? HERO is a person we can respect for their character or success. A hero is a
person that we use as an example and goal for ourselves. When you were young, maybe you had
a hero, someone famous you respected, maybe in sports or politics. Do you have special heroes
for your faith? Are there men and women in the past who can be examples for us to follow, as
goals for our lives? Yes, in this chapter we are going to study about few heroes who reached
success, made sacrifice, contributed and impacted many lives by faith.
The definition of a hero sounds like this: a hero is a person who does great things in his life. "A
person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or
sacrificed his or her life".
What is a hero of faith? To be a hero of the faith one must win the battle of the faith. To be hero
of faith we must see first the meaning of faith: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and
certain of what we do not see". (Hebrews11:1). Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the
evidence of things not seen. To be sure of something we hope and to be certain things that are
not seen, is not too common in our days because we want exactly the opposite! We want to see
and touch and afterwards we believe. It is hard to believe because things we need faith for, are
not seen. Faith is based on God's promises. "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the
message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17). Once we come
to hear the word of Christ, faith becomes alive and it demands action to make it complete. Faith
is pleasing God. Heroes of faith are the people who trusted in God and looked upon His face in
all the situations of their life without doubting and accomplished greater things. They are
referred to men or women that knew how to face risks and hardships in their lives and knew the
most important ingredient: God's presence with them as they were accomplishing God's plans.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE MULLER (1805 – 1898)
CONTENTS:
“A servant of
 Background
 Mission Call God has but one
 His Ministry master"
 The Orphanage
BACKGROUND
George was born on September 27, 1805, in Kroppenstaedt, Prussia (Germany). He was raised in
a wealthy family who had little or no time for God. He was the favorite son of his father who
spoiled him and excused or overlooked all manner of evil behavior in young George. Pierson
notes, “Before he was ten years old he was a habitual thief and an expert at cheating; even
government funds entrusted to his father, were not safe from his hands.” He continued down this
wayward path to the point that he spent the evening of his mother’s death in drunken carousing
through the city streets.God had other plans for this wayward life, however, and in his 21st year
George Muller came to know the saving power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Somehow he found
himself at a worship service where a simple servant of God knelt in prayer to ask God’s blessing
on the meeting. It was the first time George had ever seen anyone kneel to pray and it made a
profound impact. This would not be true for long; in the years ahead, he would excel in the
discipline of prayer and it would become the cornerstone of all his life’s work!
MISSION CALL
Two years later, in 1827 Muller applied to the London Missionary Society to serve as a
missionary to the Jews and traveled to London to prepare. He remained in preparation for the
better part of eighteen months. In 1829 he wrote to the Society and declared his intentions to
serve only on the condition that he serve without salary and that he labor only where and when
the Lord should direct. This was unacceptable to the Society and so his missionary endeavor was
cut short before it officially began. In 1830 Muller became the pastor of a small church at
Teignmouth. He insisted in taking no salary trusting only on Jehovah-Jireh for his daily
provision. It was here that Muller set down as a firm life principle that he would never receive a
fixed salary for any service rendered to God’s people. At the end of his life he would summarize
this decision in these words: “I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of
exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith.”
HIS MINISTRY
He and his best friend, Henry Craik, founded the Scriptural Knowledge Institution (SKI) in
Bristol, England, on February 25, 1834, with one of their prime objectives being to establish
Orphan Homes for the many homeless children in Great Britain. It had four objectives:
1. To assist Sunday Schools, Day Schools and Adult Schools, and where possible to start new
ones.
2. To sell Bibles and Testaments to the poor at low prices, and if necessary, to give them free of
cost.
3. To aid missionary effort. (This was to provide financial aid to free- lance missionaries.)
4. To circulate tracts in English and in various foreign languages. The Orphan House became a
fifth objective. He answered some 3,000 letters a year without a secretary.
THE ORPHANAGE
The work of Muller and his wife with orphans began in 1836 with the preparation of their own
home at 6 Wilson Street, Bristol for the accommodation of thirty girls. Soon after, three more
houses in Wilson Street were furnished; growing the total of children cared for to 130. In 1845,

as growth continued, Muller decided that a separate building designed to house 300 children was
necessary, and in 1849, at Ashley Down, Bristol, that home opened. When God put it into the
heart of George Muller to build these orphanages, he had only two shillings (50 cents) in his
pocket. Without making his wants known to any man, but to God alone, over a million, four
hundred thousand pounds ($7,000,000) were sent to him for the building and maintaining of
these orphan homes.
A well known story indicates the kind of life that was lived by him.
One morning the plates and cups and bowls on the table were empty. There was no food in the
larder, and no money to buy food. The children were standing waiting for their morning meal,
when Mueller said, "Children, you know we must be in time for school." Lifting his hand he
said, "Dear Father, we thank Thee for what Thou art going to give us to eat." There was a knock
on the door. The baker stood there, and said, "Mr. Muel\ler, I couldn't sleep last night. Somehow
I felt you didn't have bread for breakfast and the Lord wanted me to send you some. So I got up
at 2 a.m. and baked some fresh bread, and have brought it." Muller thanked the man. No sooner
had this transpired when there was a second knock at the door. It was the milkman. He
announced that his milk cart had broken down right in front of the Orphanage, and he would like
to give the children his cans of fresh milk so he could empty his wagon and repair it. No
wonder, years later, when Mueller was to travel the world as an evangelist, he would be heralded
as "the man who gets things from God!"
For over sixty years he saw God provide for five large orphan houses and for the daily needs of
over 10,000 orphans. During that time he personally gave over 110,000 British pounds to Sunday
schools and day schools where over 150,000 children were instructed. He gave an additional
90,000 pounds for the purchase and circulation of over 2 million Bibles and 3 million books and
tracts. Besides all this, he gave over 260,000 pounds to missionaries in foreign fields. When you
add all the money that was given to him for the orphanages to this amount, he gave away almost
1.5 million pounds to the Lord’s work!
George and his wife traveled 200,000 miles in 17 years of world-wide evangelism efforts, in 42
countries, preaching to 3 million people. Mueller was non-sectarian in his general outlook, and
was one of the founders of the Brethren movement. His influence touched the lives of
thousands--perhaps most notable, that of J. Hudson Taylor. Mueller read the Bible through over
200 times, half of these times on his knees. He said he knew of some 50,000 specific answers to
prayer...requests to God alone! Over 3,000 of his orphans were won to Christ through his
ministry by the Holy Spirit.
George Muller has proved to the world the truth of Philippians 4:19 and he will always be
remembered as the man who got things from God. His testimony is an inspiration to Christians
everywhere. He died at Bristol on the 10th of March 1898.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CAREY (1761 – 1834)

CONTENTS:
“EXPECT GREAT
 Background THINGS FROM GOD.
 His Call ATTEMPT GREAT
 His Mission & Ministry
THINGS FOR GOD’’

"Shoemaker by trade, but scholar, linguist and missionary by God's training,"
The eighteenth-century English missionary William Carey (1761-1834) is remembered for his
outstanding missiological significance. The venerated missionary was also described as a
"great… statesman, an erudite Oriental scholar, a gifted translator, a learned professor, a skilled
botanist, [and] a true friend of Bengal and India". William Carey was one of God's giants in the
history of evangelism! One of his biographers, F. Dealville Walker, wrote of Carey: "He, with a
few contemporaries, was almost singlehanded in conquering the prevailing indifference and
hostility to missionary effort; Carey developed a plan for missions, and printed his amazing
Enquiry; he influenced timid and hesitating men to take steps to the evangelizing of the world."
BACKGROUND
Carey, English Baptist missionary to India was born in a small thatched cottage in Paulerspury, a
typical Northamptonshire village in England, August 17, 1761, of a weaver's family. He was
raised in a small, rural English town where he received almost no formal education. His chief
source of income came through his work as a cobbler (a shoemaker). He had an awkward,
homely appearance, having lost almost all his hair in childhood. When about eighteen he left the
Church of England to "follow Christ" and to "...go forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His
reproach." At first he joined the Congregational church at Hackleton where he was an apprentice
shoemaker. It was there he married in 1781. And it was in Hackleton he began making five-mile
walks to Olney in his quest for more spiritual truth. Olney was a stronghold of the Particular
Baptists, the group that Carey cast his lot with after his baptism, October 5, 1783. Two years
later he moved to Moulton to become a schoolmaster — and a year later he became pastor of the
small Baptist congregation there.
HIS CALL
It was in Moulton that Carey heard the missionary call. In his own words he cried, "My attention
to missions was first awakened after I was at Moulton, by reading the Last Voyage of Captain
Cook." To many, Cook's Journal was a thrilling story of adventure, but to Carey it was a
revelation of human need! He then began to read every book that had any bearing on the subject.
(This, along with his language study — for at twenty-one years of age Carey had mastered Latin,
Greek, Hebrew and Italian, and was turning to Dutch and French. His shoemaker's cottage is
called as "Carey's College," for as he cobbled shoes along with his preaching he never sat at his
bench without some kind of a book before him.)
The more he read and studied, the more convinced he was "the peoples of the world need
Christ." He read, he made notes, he made a great leather globe of the world and, one day, in the
quietness of his cobbler's shop — not in some enthusiastic missionary conference — Carey heard
the call: "If it be the duty of all men to believe the Gospel ... then it be the duty of those who are
entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations." And Carey sobbed
out, "Here am I; send me!"
To surrender was one thing — to get to the field was quite another problem. There were no
missionary societies and there was no real missionary interest. When Carey propounded this
subject for discussion at a ministers' meeting, "Whether the command given to the apostles to
teach all nations was not obligatory on all succeeding ministers to the end of the world, seeing

that the accompanying promise was of equal extent," Dr. Ryland shouted, "Young man, sit
down: when God pleases to covert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." But
Carey persisted. He later said of his ministry, "I can plod!" And he was a man who "always
resolutely determined never to give up on any point or particle of anything on which his mind
was set until he had arrived at a clear knowledge of his subject."Thus Carey wrote his famed
Enquiry Into the Obligations of the Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen.
In this masterpiece on missions Carey answered arguments, surveyed the history of missions
from apostolic times, surveyed the entire known world as to countries, size, population and
religions, and dealt with the practical application of how to reach the world for Christ!
HIS MISSION & MINISTRY

And he prayed. And he pled. And he plodded. And he persisted. And he preached — especially
his epoch-producing message, "EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD ATTEMPT GREAT
THINGS FOR GOD." It was in 1793 that Carey went to India. At first his wife was reluctant to
go — so Carey set off to go nevertheless, but after two returns from the docks to persuade her
again, Dorothy and his children accompanied him. They arrived with a Dr. Thomas at the mouth
of the Hooghly in India in November, 1793. There were years of discouragement (no Indian
convert for seven years), debt, disease, deterioration of his wife's mind, death, but by the grace of
God — and by the power of the Word — Carey continued and conquered for Christ!
During the first year in Calcutta, the missionaries sought means to support themselves and a
place to establish their mission. They also began to learn the Bengali language to communicate
with the natives. A friend of Thomas owned two indigo factories and needed managers, so Carey
moved with his family north to Midnapore. During the six years that Carey managed the indigo
plant, he completed the first revision of his Bengali New Testament and began formulating the
principles upon which his missionary community would be formed, including communal living,
financial self-reliance, and the training of indigenous ministers. His son Peter died of dysentery,
causing Dorothy to suffer a nervous breakdown from which she never recovered.
When Englishman William Carey (1761–1834) arrived in India in 1793, it marked a major
milestone in the history of Christian missions and in the history of India. Carey established the
Serampore Mission—the first modern Protestant mission in the non-English-speaking world—
near Calcutta on January 10, 1800. Upon his arrival in India and throughout his years there, he
was harassed by British colonists, deserted by his mission-sending agency, and opposed by
younger missionary recruits who were sent to help him. Despite these setbacks, he became
perhaps the most influential person in the largest outpost of the British Empire. Carey didn’t go
to India merely to start new churches or set up medical clinics for the poor. He was driven by a
more comprehensive vision—a vision for discipling the nation. “Carey saw India not as a foreign
country to be exploited, but as his heavenly Father’s land to be loved and served, a society where
truth, not ignorance, needed to rule.” He looked outward across the land and asked himself, “If
Jesus were the Lord of India, what would it look like? What would be different?” This question
set his agenda and led to his involvement in a remarkable variety of activities aimed at glorifying
God and advancing His kingdom.
Carey was horrified that India, one of the most fertile countries in the world, had been allowed to
become an uncultivated jungle abandoned to wild beasts and serpents. Therefore he carried out a

systematic survey of agriculture and campaigned for agriculture reform. He introduced the
Linnean system of plant organizations and published the first science texts in India. Carey
introduced the idea of savings banks to India to fight the all-pervasive social evil of usury (the
lending of money at excessive interest). He was the first to campaign for humane treatment of
India’s leprosy victims because he believed that Jesus’ love extends to leprosy patients, so they
should be cared for. He established the first newspaper ever printed in any Oriental language,
because he believed that “above all forms of truth and faith, Christianity seeks free discussion.”
His English-language journal, Friend of India, was the force that gave birth to the social-reform
movement in India in the first half of the nineteenth century.
He translated the Bible into over 40 different Indian languages. He transformed the Bengali
language, into the foremost literary language of India. He wrote gospel ballads in Bengali to
bring the Hindu love of music to the service of his Lord. He began dozens of schools for Indian
children of all castes. He desired to develop the Indian mind and liberate it from darkness and
superstition. He was the first man to stand against the ruthless murders and widespread
oppression of women. Women in India were being crushed through polygamy, female
infanticide, child marriage, widow burning, euthanasia, and forced illiteracy—all sanctioned by
religion. Carey opened schools for girls. When widows converted to Christianity, he arranged
marriages for them. It was his persistent, 25-year battle against widow burning (known as sati)
that finally led to the formal banning of this horrible religious practice.
William Carey was a pioneer of the modern Christian missionary movement, a movement that
has since reached every corner of the world. Although a man of simple origins, he used his God-
given genius and every available means to serve his Creator and illumine the dark corners of
India with the light of the truth.When he died at 73 (1834), he had seen the Scriptures translated
and printed into forty languages, he had been a college professor, and had founded a college at
Serampore. He had seen India open its doors to missionaries, he had seen the edict passed
prohibiting sati (burning widows on the funeral pyres of their dead husbands), and he had seen
converts for Christ.
On his deathbed Carey called out to a missionary friend, "Dr. Duff! You have been speaking
about Dr. Carey; when I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey — speak about Dr. Carey's
God." That charge was symbolic of Carey, considered by many to be a "unique figure, towering
above both contemporaries and successors" in the ministry of missions. William Carey, the great
missionary to India, even now remembered as the father of the modern missionary movement.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER TERESA (1910 – 1997)
CONTENTS:
“Yesterday is gone.
 Background
 Life and Achievements Tomorrow has not yet
come. We have only
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BACKGROUND
Mother Teresa was born in Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia. She had to be a
missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in
Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928, an Irish community of nuns with missions in
India. She took the name "Teresa" after St. Teresa of Lisieux, patroness of the Missionaries.
After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took
her initial vows as a nun.
ACHIEVEMENTS
From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering
and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in
1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself
to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds,
she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon
voluntary helpers joined her, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible
for her to extend the scope of her work.
In 1948, she came across a half-dead woman lying in front of a Calcutta hospital. She stayed
with the woman until she died. From that point on, she dedicated the majority of her life to
helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name "Saint of the Gutters." She
founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to
serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters
in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.
In 1952, she founded the Nirmal Hriday Home for the Dying in a former temple in Calcutta. It
was there that they would care for the dying Indians that were found on the streets. Mother
would see Jesus in everyone that she met. It didn’t matter whether they were dying of AIDS or
Leprosy. She wanted them to be able to die in peace and with dignity. For over 50 years, she
worked selflessly helping the poor. That devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout
the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Over the last two decades, Mother had suffered from heart problems. She suffered a heart attack
during a 1983 visit with Pope John Paul II. She suffered another, and more serious, heart attack
in 1989. It was then that a pacemaker was installed. Mother Teresa was a living saint and she
will be greatly missed. Although the world is full of good people, great humanitarians that really
care, people who donate billions of dollars, people who raise their voice to make a difference,
Mother Teresa stands out in the crowd, she is unique. Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize, died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India
She dedicated every day of her adult life caring for "The dying, the cripple, the mentally ill, the
unwanted, and the unloved" and she loved every minute of it because she was loving, she was
cleaning, feeding "Jesus in disguise".
Yes, she fed them, sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is more important she made
them feel good, loved, wanted, she gave them back their dignity that poverty had taken away

from them and even if they died with a smile on their face.... because somebody loved them,
somebody cared for them ...
THE BIOGRAPHY OF DR. IDA S. SCUDDER (1870 – 1959)

CONTENTS:
“Not to be
 Background
 Mission Call Ministered unto
 Her Service But to minister."
BACKGROUND
Vellore Christian Medical College & Hospital, known simply as "CMC", is one of those unique
organizations that you fall in love with at first sight. At its heart is the story of the founder,
Ida S. Scudder, and the thousands of dedicated men and women who have followed her at CMC
in India. The story of Ida Scudder's visionary mission begins in the late 1800's when she was a
young American girl reluctantly visiting her medical missionary father, John Scudder, at his post
in Tamil Nadu, South India.
Ida Scudder was born in India on December 9, 1870, and lived until about age five. She grew up
well-acquainted with the trials of missionary life, particularly the pain of separation from loved
ones. Her parents had brought her back to the United States to finish her education and then left
her there when they returned to India. Ida was happy. She did not wish to return to
India. However she came to India to care for her mother, and was helping her father at a mission
bungalow in 1892.
MISSION CALL
On one night, God changed her mind about being a medical missionary in India. This story is
incredible and shows how Ida received her extraordinary call to serve helpless women in India
for the rest of her life. One fateful night, Ida was asked to help three women from different
families struggling in difficult childbirth. Custom prevented their husbands from accepting the
help of a male doctor for them and being without training at that time, Ida herself could do
nothing. The next morning she was shocked to learn that each of the three women had died. She
believed that it was a calling and a challenge set before her by God to begin a ministry dedicated
to the health needs of the people of India, particularly women and children. Consequently, Ida
went back to America, entered medical training (practically unheard of for women at that time)
and, in 1899, was one of the first women graduates of the Cornell Medical College.
HER SERVICE
Shortly thereafter, she returned to India and opened a one-bed clinic in Vellore in 1900. Two
years later, in 1902, she built a 40-bed hospital, the forerunner of today's 2000-bed medical
center. In 1909, she started the School of Nursing, and in 1918, her fondest dream came true
with the opening of a medical school for women (Men were later admitted in 1947). With the
training of these women as doctors and nurses, Indian women would now begin to have access to
health care professionals. This was the beginning of the vision of Ida S. Scudder that continues to
grow to this day.

In addition to the care of women, Ida Scudder saw the need for bringing health care to the poor,
the disabled, and the neglected of India. She traveled regularly to outlying villages, bringing
medical care to the doorstep of poor villagers, many of whom had never seen a real doctor or
nurse, starting CMC's first "roadside" dispensary in 1916. In 1928, Mahatma Gandhi visited the
medical school. She traveled a number of times to the United States to raise funds for the college
and hospital, raising a total in the millions. Over the years these roadside dispensaries have
developed into extensive rural health and development programs that have become
internationally acclaimed in the Community Health field. These dispensaries have attracted
members of the medical community from around the world (from young medical students and
nurses to highly skilled surgeons) to study and contribute their skills.
The 100 years since Ida Scudder opened the first small clinic have seen remarkable growth. Here
is an example of the daily activity that goes on there today: 2,000 outpatients per day, 1,000
inpatients, 43 operations, 22 clinics, and 16 births. Ten Bible Classes are held each day and a
Chaplain visits 380 patients. In addition, their work includes going to the villages and rural areas
bringing methods of disease prevention, health care and community empowerment to tens of
thousands more. CMC started with one woman and her vision now employs over 4300 people
today. In the words of Ida Scudder, “we thank God for the way He has led us in the past and look
forward to an even greater future.” She dedicated her life to the plight of Indian women and the
fight against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy
In 1953, when Ida was 82 years old, she was presented with the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation of
the New York Infirmary as one of five outstanding women doctors of 1952. Ida died in 1959 at
her home on Hilltop, a bungalow at Kodaikanal, overlooking the Vellore Christian Medical
College and hospital, at age 89. The girl who promised she would never set foot in India again,
served there until the day she died.
Ida Scudder is a wonderful example to us of compassion and courage. She had her mind made up
to a normal life of marriage and children, but was faithful to respond to God when He impressed
her with the need of the women in India. She is an encouragement to us to think of others. We
might feel that we can’t do much in our own small corner in our world, but with a vision to help
others, and God’s help, we can really do much to brighten the lives of others around us.

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DEPARTMENT OF VALUE EDUCATION

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 The capacity of students to make UNIT II

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Values of Life: Meaning, Need for Values, Importance of Values,

Mission of Karunya: Karunya History, Biography of Dr. D.G.S

Transmitting the Mission: Human Response to Humanitarian Need –

Transmitting the Mission: Finding Solutions to Problems related to

Setbacks in Life: Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes, Pride of Life –

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Sacredness in Life: Purity of Thought and Deed, Love and Compassion.

L.11 Heroes of Faith: William Carey, Mother Theresa, Ida Scudder.

Introduction: Definition, Character Values, Character Development,

L.14 Inner Life Integrity: Integrity Check – Integrity of Heart.

Inner Life Integrity: Self Centered Personality, God Centered

Building Relationship: Importance & Need for Relationship, Issues that

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Love & Friendship: Types of Love, World’s View about Love,

Love & Friendship: Importance of Friendship – Qualities of Friendship

Work Place Relationship: Working for God, Relationship with

Emerging as Leaders: Definition, Meaning, Seven Principles of

Foundation for Success: Meaning, Qualities that make a Person

Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience,

L.28 Seven Deadly Sins: Science without Humanity, Religion without

Seven Top Behaviors for Effective Living: Attitude, Unleashing your

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DEPARTMENT OF VALUE EDUCATION (DOVE)

DETAILS OF THE NOTES PREPARATION – 12VE301 (PG)

1 Values of Life Mrs. Deepa Philip

2 Mission of Karunya Mrs. B. Paulin Ebenezer

3 Transmitting the Mission Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

4 Revelations for Humanity Ms. Aruna Prasad

1 God’s view of Life Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

2 Setbacks in Life Mrs. B.Paulin Ebenezer

3 Sacredness in Life Mrs. Deepa Philip &

4 Heroes of Faith Mr. A.J. Abraham Isaac

1 Character Mr. A.J. Abraham Isaac

2 Inner Life Integrity Mrs. B. Paulin Ebenezer

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4 Cultivating Character Mr. Philip L. Timothy

1 Building Relationship Mr. Surya Kumar

Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

3 Love & Friendship Mrs. Jerylene Priyadarshini

4 Work Place Relationship Mrs. Jerylene Priyadarshini

1 Emerging as Leaders Mr. A.J. Abraham Isaac

2 Foundation for Success Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

3 Seven Deadly Sins Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

Seven Top Behaviors for Mrs. Priscilla Manuel

Compiled by: Mrs. B. Paulin Ebenezer

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WHAT IS VALUE EDUCATION?

NEED FOR VALUE BASED EDUCATION:

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According to Father of Indian Nation M. K. Gandhi

Our values are a reflection of our spirituality; our character.

'"LET NOBLE THOUGHTS COME TO ME FROM ALL DIRECTIONS".

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3. Honesty and Integrity

Self-improvement is a responsible and unselfish action; it is a prerequisite to effectively helping