Four stories

 

1. Thinking Out of the Box

Once upon a time, a merchant named Sam owed a huge sum of money to Tom, a money lender. The time came when the merchant ran out of the last chance given to him to give the money back.

Sam had a beautiful daughter who was very affectionate with her father. Tom asked the merchant to give all the money back failing which he will marry his beautiful daughter.

Tom was not at all good looking and ill minded and so the merchant was in dilemma. Tom proposed a new condition. There was a mix of black and white pebbles on the ground where they were standing. He will take two pebbles on both hands, one will be white and the other will be black.

If the daughter correctly chooses the white pebble, then Tom will write off all the debt and leave the marriage proposal too. But if she chooses the black pebble, he will write off the debt but will marry the daughter.

Tom bent down to pick the pebbles from the ground and the daughter noticed that he took black pebbles on both hands. The girl had three choices- to notify the same to her father which may provoke Tom, take the black pebble and sacrifice her life or simply refuse to take the pebble which might land her father into trouble. But what she did totally surprise Tom.

She took the pebble from his hand and ‘accidentally’ the pebble fell off from her hand to ground. She then asked Tom to see which color pebble was left in his hand to identify the color she picked. Tom had no other choice but to show the black color pebble in his hand and set both of them free.

Moral: Sometimes, life offers you situations which not only demands hard work and perseverance but some creative thinking which saves the situation.

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2. The Group of Frogs

Some frogs were traveling through woods and two of them accidentally fell into a pit. The other frogs which were safe upside understood how deep the pit was and saw no hope for the frogs to escape out of it.

Both of these frogs started trying to get out of the pit but failed many times. The frogs on the safe side shouted at them to give up the pain of trying as it was not possible.

Eventually, one frog heard the other frogs and decided to stop trying and fell down to death. However, the other frog went on trying and at last managed to reach the top.

The other frogs asked him, “Did you not hear us?” He explained that he was deaf and thought other frogs were encouraging him to get out.

Moral: Some people around you may ask you to be on a safer side always and stop trying and taking risks. However, there is no gain without pain. So try hard to achieve success in life despite what life offers you.

3. Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand

Once a professor entered the classroom with a glass jar, rocks, pebbles, and sand. The students were amused to see what he was up to. First, he started filling the rock parts into the jar until he couldn’t add any more.

He asked the students if the jar was full and everybody nodded yes. He then started putting the pebbles inside the jar which went inside through the small gaps and he shakes the jar to allow the pebbles to get into those vacant spaces in between the rocks.

He asked the same question to the students and they again said that the jar was full. Finally, he poured the sand inside the jar which went through the minute gaps and got filled in the jar.

The professor explained that this is how you should set priorities in life. Rock is like your family, while pebbles are like your career while sand is like the least priorities in life and unnecessary quarrels and egos.

If you put sand on the jar first, it will get easily filled up leaving no space for rocks and pebbles.

Moral: You should identify your priorities in life and develop a good strategy to work towards fulfilling it rather than wasting your time and effort on unnecessary aspects of life.

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4. Struggles develop strength

One day a man was passing by a garden when he saw a butterfly cocoon which was about to get open.

He saw a small opening on it and watched the several hours of struggles the butterfly came through to get the body out of it. After many hours, it seemed that the butterfly stopped trying as there was no progress.

He thought to help the butterfly by cutting the cocoon with a scissor. So the butterfly came out easily but the wings were shriveled and the body was tiny and withered.

Unfortunately, the butterfly was not able to take flight and spend the rest of life crawling with a wounded body.

Moral: This is nature’s way of telling the importance of struggles in life. Sometimes, different kinds of struggles are needed in life to make you stronger in the future. Never feel disappointed in life and stop trying when life offers you struggles but keep on fighting until you see success.

List of the questions

1) What is creative thinking explain by the first story ' Thinking out of the Box'.

2) How the girl save her life from the Tom in the first story?

3) What have you learnt from the frogs in the second story?

4) Which are the three things discussed in the third story? Which are the your priorities in your life?

5) What happened if you will not trying in your life? explain by the help of the fourth story.

6) What have you learnt from the all four stories?

7) Which story do you like more ? 

સફળતા અને સંતોષ

 

સફળતા અને સંતોષ 

સફળતાની શરૂવાત પ્રયત્ન અને પરિશ્રમથી થાય છે. જો વ્યક્તિનું કોઈ લક્ષ્ય હોઈ અને તે પૂર્ણ ના થાય તો એ વ્યક્તિ સફળતા પ્રાપ્ત કરી શકતું નથી. સફળતા પ્રાપ્ત કરવા માટે વ્યક્તીએ તેને પ્રાપ્ત કરવામાં સંપૂર્ણ પ્રયત્ન કરવો પડે છે. સંતોષ એ આપણને પોતાની અંદરથી મળે છે. આપણે દરેકે એક વાર્તા સાંભળેલી છે કાચબા અને સસલાની પરંતુ આજે એજ વાર્તાનું નવું સ્વરૂપ જોઈએ. 

પ્રશ્નો 

૧) આ વાર્તા માંથી શું શીખવા મળ્યું? 

૨) આ વાર્તાને તમે સફળતા અને સંતોષ સાથે કઈ રીતે જોડશો ?

૩) આ વાર્તા સમજ્યા પછી તમારા મતે જીવનમાં શું વધારે મહત્વનું છે સફળતા કે સંતોષ? 

The wife of Bath's Prologue

 

Summary: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

The Wife of Bath begins the Prologue to her tale by establishing herself as an authority on marriage, due to her extensive personal experience with the institution. Since her first marriage at the tender age of twelve, she has had five husbands. She says that many people have criticized her for her numerous marriages, most of them on the basis that Christ went only once to a wedding, at Cana in Galilee. The Wife of Bath has her own views of Scripture and God’s plan. She says that men can only guess and interpret what Jesus meant when he told a Samaritan woman that her fifth husband was not her husband. With or without this bit of Scripture, no man has ever been able to give her an exact reply when she asks to know how many husbands a woman may have in her lifetime. God bade us to wax fruitful and multiply, she says, and that is the text that she wholeheartedly endorses.

After all, great Old Testament figures, like Abraham, Jacob, and Solomon, enjoyed multiple wives at once. She admits that many great Fathers of the Church have proclaimed the importance of virginity, such as the Apostle Paul. But, she reasons, even if virginity is important, someone must be procreating so that virgins can be created. Leave virginity to the perfect, she says, and let the rest of us use our gifts as best we may—and her gift, doubtless, is her sexual power. She uses this power as an “instrument” to control her husbands.

At this point, the Pardoner interrupts. He is planning to marry soon and worries that his wife will control his body, as the Wife of Bath describes. The Wife of Bath tells him to have patience and to listen to the whole tale to see if it reveals the truth about marriage. Of her five husbands, three have been “good” and two have been “bad.” The first three were good, she admits, mostly because they were rich, old, and submissive. She laughs to recall the torments that she put these men through and recounts a typical conversation that she had with her older husbands.

She would accuse her husband of having an affair, launching into a tirade in which she would charge him with a bewildering array of accusations. If one of her husbands got drunk, she would claim he said that every wife is out to destroy her husband. He would then feel guilty and give her what she wanted. All of this, the Wife of Bath tells the rest of the pilgrims, was a pack of lies—her husbands never held these opinions, but she made these claims to give them grief. Worse, she would tease her husbands in bed, refusing to give them full satisfaction until they promised her money. She admits proudly to using her verbal and sexual power to bring her husbands to total submission.

Read a translation of The Wife of Bath’s Prologue 

Analysis

In her lengthy Prologue, the Wife of Bath recites her autobiography, announcing in her very first word that “experience” will be her guide. Yet, despite her claim that experience is her sole authority, the Wife of Bath apparently feels the need to establish her authority in a more scholarly way. She imitates the ways of churchmen and scholars by backing up her claims with quotations from Scripture and works of antiquity. The Wife carelessly flings around references as textual evidence to buttress her argument, most of which don’t really correspond to her points. Her reference to Ptolemy’s Almageste, for instance, is completely erroneous—the phrase she attributes to that book appears nowhere in the work. Although her many errors display her lack of real scholarship, they also convey Chaucer’s mockery of the churchmen present, who often misused Scripture to justify their devious actions.

The text of the Wife of Bath’s Prologue is based in the medieval genre of allegorical “confession.” In a morality play, a personified vice such as Gluttony or Lust “confesses” his or her sins to the audience in a life story. The Wife is exactly what the medieval Church saw as a “wicked woman,” and she is proud of it—from the very beginning, her speech has undertones of conflict with her patriarchal society. Because the statements that the Wife of Bath attributes to her husbands were taken from a number of satires published in Chaucer’s time, which half-comically portrayed women as unfaithful, superficial, evil creatures, always out to undermine their husbands, feminist critics have often tried to portray the Wife as one of the first feminist characters in literature.

What is better : Comforts or Happiness?

 
What is comfort?

"If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations."

સુખ એ આપણી આસપાસ રહેલી ભૌતિક વસ્તુઓમાં નથી જેમકે મોબાઈલ, ગાડી, કાર, બંગલો વગેરે. હાલમાં માણસ એવું વિચારતો થયો છે કે પોતે ઈચ્છેલી ભૌતિક સુવિધાઓ તેને પ્રાપ્ત થઈ જશે તો એ સુખી થશે પણ એવું બનતું નથી. આપણે જાણીએ છીએ કે આપણા સમાજમાં ઘણા બધા પૈસાદાર લોકો છે જે આવી સુવિધાઓમાં રહે છે છતાં તેઓ સુખી રહી શકતા નથી. એનો મતલબ એમ થયો કે સુખ એ ભૌતિક સુવિધાઓમાં નથી.  

[कैसी तेरी खुदगर्ज़ी
ना धुप चुने ना छांव
कैसी तेरी खुदगर्ज़ी
किसी ठोर टीके ना पाऊँ]x 2

बन लिया अपना पैगम्बर
तार लिया तू सात समंदर
फिर भी सुखा मन के अंदर
क्यूँ रह गया

रे कबीरा मान जा
रे फ़कीर मान जा
आजा तुझको पुकारे तेरी परछाइयाँ

दोहा:- कबीरा खड़ा बाज़ार में, मांगे सबकी खैर!
ना काहू से दोस्‍ती, न काहू से बैर!!
अर्थ:- इस संसार में आकर कबीर अपने जीवन में बस यही चाहते हैं,
कि सबका भला हो और संसार में यदि किसी से दोस्‍ती नहीं तो दुश्‍मनी भी न हो!

Presentation skills

 

Tip 1: Body Language (Face and Hands)

One of the first things to consider when presenting is to think about how you use your face and hands.

Always make eye contact and look at all of your participants. Do not stare at them but do make an effort to appear to speak to each and every person present.

If the venue is big and the number of attendees numerous (let’s say more than 20) then at least look or glance at each section of people from time to time.

Tip 2: Posture and Body Language When Presenting

If you want to make the right impression with your students or whoever you are presenting to, it is important to maintain good posture.

If you wish to, you can also highlight a new section in the presentation by changing your posture or position. Opening up your shoulders and arms, for example, could be used to express the idea of something starting.

Tip 3: Positioning Your Body When Presenting

Body language is also important and given that most eyes will be on you, as the trainer at the front of the room, any unusual actions you do will of course easily be noticed and can distract your audience from focusing on the content that you are delivering.

Tip 4: Voice – Volume, Pitch, and Pauses

Make sure when presenting to project your voice! Also, change the volume and pitch of your voice to add emphasis! If you need to, just ask the people at the back of the venue if they can hear you okay.

Tip 5: Fillers and Elocution

One of the things that most of us do when first learning how to give effective presentations, is to use fillers!

Fillers are the words we unconsciously use to try and fill in between the things we are meant to say. Common fillers include ‘ah’, ‘err’, ‘ok’, ‘like’, ‘er’, ‘um’, and ‘right then’.

We all use fillers and trying to avoid using them is not easy at first.

Finally, do not rush the end of sentences, and do not be afraid to use an informal voice. You want to sound professional of course, but you also want to speak in a way that is friendly and warm.

Tip 6: Making Use of Space in the Training Room or Classroom

Think carefully also about the space that you have available to you in the training room or classroom.

It can be a great idea to move around among participants. Move around the room looking first at a group, then another group. Do not neglect any section of the room.

Also, never sit behind a desk (unless used temporarily and as part of an intentional informal act). You might, for example, want to sit down whilst your participants or task that you have set them.

Few more tips

Quality of your content

Pattern of your content

Reading Club

 Lokbharati University for Rural Innovation

Reading Club Report- 2022-23

Semester- 1

No.	Date	Reading Club Activity
1	28/07/2022	Talk on the Importance of reading club and every student said a name of  the book.
2	30/07/2022	Divided the students into three various groups like ‘Satyam’, ‘Shivam’ and ‘Sundaram’. And gave them the instructions to start every club with their presentation on various points like good thoughts, reading an article, recitation of a poem, etc and then students read out an articles from the various magazines and present it.
3	02/08/2022	Daily presentation by the students and shared write up and reading with the students by Dinubhai and Diptiben
4	04/08/2022	Students selected two good thoughts from the internet and share the understanding about those thoughts in the group.
5	06/08/2022	Students done self reading in the session.
6	09/08/2022	Students have done their daily presentation and Dinubhai talk about the ‘Kodiu’.
7	13/08/2022	Every student recited two poems in the group which they have selected earlier.
8	23/08/2022	Students were reading their own book and then present it in the group.
9	25/08/2022	Ten students from the group said literary stories and other students listen and ask the questions.
10	27/08/2022	Students have seen the speech video given by Ushaben Upadhyay  on the novel ‘Dipnirvan’ by Manubhai Pancholi.
11	30/08/2022	Other ten students from the group said literary stories and other students listen and ask the questions.
12	01/09/2022	Other ten students from the group said literary stories and other students listen and ask the questions.
13	03/09/2022	Other ten students from the group said literary stories and other students listen and ask the questions.
14	05/09/2022	Students tried to shoot a video on the various topics and share it in the whats app group of the reading club and shared their experiences of first time facing the camera.
15	08/09/2022	Students divided in the various groups and given the topic to perform like street play about that point.
16	10/09/2022	Combined session in the Saraswatbhavan about the introductory session on the Innovation activity.
17	13/09/2022	Students performed like street play which given them in the last club and also done one act play like if he/she will be ghost, farmer, music, book, etc.
18	15/09/2022	Talk on the issues of the society like superstition and students  actively participated in the discussion.
19	17/09/2022	Students have asked the questions related to the last discussion and it goes on.
20	20/09/2022	Discussion on the current issues of our society and asked the views of the students.
21	22/09/2022	Reading articles from the internet and shared it in the group.
22	24/09/2022	Students have seen the video of Vishalbhai on the research of the rural people and their issues and then shared their views on it.
23	27/09/2022	Students tried to understand the importance of novel and its usages.
24	29/09/2022	We read an article and give their review on it.
25	01/10/2022	Discussion on the good books.
26	04/10/2022	Students have seen the video of Vishalbhai Bhadani on ‘Dipnirvan’ and Diptiben shared the few interesting incidents from the novel.
27	06/10/2022	Reading a novel like Manavini Bhavai, Alchemist, etc. So students have done the self study and then share it in the group.
28	08/10/2022	Reading a novel like Manavini Bhavai, Alchemist, etc. So students have done the self study and then share it in the group.
29	11/10/2022	Reading a novel like Manavini Bhavai, Alchemist, etc. So students have done the self study and then share it in the group.
30	13/10/2022	Students seen the movie ‘Reva’ which is based on the novel ‘Tatvmasi’ by Dhruv Bhatt and that is combined club with the Documentary club.
31	15/10/2022	Students complete the movie ‘Reva’ and after complete that we discussed various aspects of the movie like issues of the society reflected in the movie and about their favourite characters from the movie with the reasons.
32	18/10/2022	Students wrote a report on the activities done in the reading club and shared the importance of those activities in the group.
33	08/11/2022	Done an activity based on words like students write down the words spoken by the teacher and rectify the errors done by the students. And then students read out the novel ‘Tatvmasi’ by Dhruv Bhatt in the group and learn how to read better that they tried to understand.
34	10/11/2022	We discussed the book The Alchemist.
35	12/11/2022	Read out a book on the life of Swami Vivekanand and their thoughts.
36	17/11/2022	Read out the book ans try to furnished their Gujarati language.

 

Activities done in the first semester.

How to read? Gave live demo on it.

We gave the guidance on what to read and how to choose it?

We introduced them about the various forms of literature.

We also introduced them about the various magazines and they read out the article from them.

We divided the students in various three groups like ‘Satyam’, ‘Shivam’ and ‘Sundaram’. These three groups were performing prayer, good thoughts, article reading according to their tern in every session.

We made a list of good books for reading.

We show them a speech on novel ‘Dipnirvan’ by Manubhai Pancholi given by Ushaben Upadhyay.

We gave the task to shoot their video on various topic.

We make them listen the songs of Dhruv Bhatt and also gave the introduction of the writer.

We also show them a movie ‘Reva’ based on the novel ‘Tatvmasi’ by Dhruv Bhatt and after seeing the movie we discussed it with the students about the issues of society reflected in the movie.

We also invited Rajendrbhai in the club and they talk about the importance of reading.

We also visited the Sarvoday with the students and they bought the few books.

We also talked about the book production and how that happened.

We also shared the various pdfs of good books in the what’s app group.

We also started to read out one book by each student in the club and they choose books like Alchemist, Manavini Bhavai, etc.

We talked about the various newspapers and its’ production.

Students talked about the various thoughts in one session.