Spiritual

Intelligence.

• The objectives of the Module:

1.To enable the students to understand the

self and the world around them.
2.To inculcate good values for their
personal benefit and the benefit of the
society in general.
3.To develop logic, reasoning and empathy
among students.
4.To make them useful citizens and highly
productive professionals with the ‘Light
within’.
5.To enable them to alleviate their
sufferings as well as those of others and
achieve true happiness.
6.To enable students to cope up with
changing circumstances.
 Day 1
The Concept of Spiritual Intelligence

Session 1. [60 min]

1. Introduction: [15 min]

Understanding spiritual intelligence is hard, and achieving it is even
harder but not impossible. Many people, nowadays, want to achieve
only those things which to get require no hard work. These effort-
phobics can never achieve spiritual intelligence and are bound to
live animalistic life: for them, animal is ‘thin-skin deep’. In order to
bury deeper the animal in man, spiritual intelligence is essential.
One may wonder what sort of cake it is and how to eat it. To
achieve and, then, eat it is not, as said earlier, a cakewalk nor is this
Module a ‘caketalk’ for any ordinary teacher or students. The
contents have been made here simpler as much as possible to
enable the students to, at least, understand the concept of spiritual
intelligence, though to be able to practically achieve it or no would
rest on their personal competence and efforts.

Before trying to define spiritual intelligence [though it’s extremely

difficult to define it], we must know about emotional intelligence
which to acquire is a pre-requisite for the former. What’s emotional
intelligence? Answer this question as you have already learnt it
earlier.

• Definition of Spiritual Intelligence:

 “It’s the Intuition that enables us to understand self,
others and the world around, inside-out, beyond their
surface realities and in their true perspective, along
with the understanding of their intra- and inter-
connections and functioning.”_
Nilesh Jadhav [Station-e].

The first step towards the Spiritual Intelligence is mind control

which is the outcome of practising the common human virtues like
patience, tolerance, endurance, equanimity of mind, avoiding
discrimination on any basis, avoiding unnecessary arguments and
any kind of conflict, avoiding greed of any kind/ sort, annihilating
self ego, expressing feelings of pity and compassion for those are
ignorant and who commit mistakes, thinking not of past or future
[except in planned activity], remaining unbiased and balanced in
everything etc. These things are easy to say but difficult to practise.
Start practising these virtues right from now, and then can you
expect to move towards Spiritual Intelligence. This means that
ethical behavior on the part of the individual can lead him to what
we refer to as Spiritual Intelligence.

The Noble Eight-fold Path: [50

min]

The following Eight-fold path can be followed to acquired to

achieve the above-mentioned common human virtues:
1. Right View:
It can be had by understanding fully the universal law of
cause and effect. For example, if you press the spring, it’ll
react with the full opposite force with equal magnitude. This
is similar to Isaac Newton’s third law of motion. If you
stimulate a living being, it’ll give you a sure response [even in
case of passive people, you’ll get passivity as a response]. You
should understand that nothing happens without reason as
“Nothing comes out of nothing.”

2. Right Thought:
It means not to cherish angry, greedy and unwise thoughts.
Right thought comes out of right view.

3. Right Speech:
It means avoiding false or lying words, idle talk, abusive
language, slander/ calumny and double-tongues.

4. Right Behaviour:
It means behave modestly; not to hurt anyone_ physically and
psychologically; not to steal nor commit adultery.

5. Right Livelihood:
It means try to live by honest work and deed; not to act that
brings shame to oneself and his family/ nation.

6. Right Efforts:
It means to do honest and right efforts in a right time, in a
right direction, with a right intention or motive.

7. Right mindfulness:
 It means to keep mind pure and calm [This is the most
difficult_ though not an impossible_ thing to achieve].

8. Right Concentration:
It means trying to control one’s mind for focused
thoughtfulness to analyze, assess, organize and infer correctly.

[The Teacher explains and discusses with the students the

interrelationship among the elements of the Noble
Eightfold Path with relevant examples from real life or
moral tales_ for example, Aesop’s Tales, Jataka Tales.]

Session2: Discussion-cum-workshop [60

min]

The chart given below will summarize the vital

points discussed above. Discuss these points
with your friends with proper referential
examples from daily human life or your day-to-
day life or moral tales that you’ve read and then
write a brief report on it.
T he Noble E ight-fold P ath
Right
View
Right
Concentr- Right
ation Thought

Right
mindfuln-
ess

Right
8 Right
Speech

Right
Efforts Behaviour
Right
Livelihood

Day2