"Ajnaana thimiraanthasya
Jnaana anjana salaakaya
Chakshurunmeelitham yena
Thasmai sree gurubhyo nama:"...
Jnaana anjana salaakaya
Chakshurunmeelitham yena
Thasmai sree gurubhyo nama:"...
I bow to thee, my great perceptor, who annoints my eyes with the light of knowledge and remove from me the misery of darkness called ignorance...
Today we celebrate teachers day in India. A day to revere our teacher's brought about with the idea of recognizing the role of teachers in our lives, which also happens to be the day for remebering Dr. S. Radhakrishnan an academician par excellence and a doyen in the field of philosophy, on his birthday, - september 5. He was the first vice president and the second president of Independent India.
The recent move of the government to call it as a "GURU Utsav" was not taken well by the so called seculars.
The word Guru means a lot. The literary meaning of which is
GU means darkness of ignorance
RU means the destroyer (of darkness)
RU means the destroyer (of darkness)
For us we have gurus all right from our births..our mother- the primordial guru in this ethereal life. The language we speak is attributed to her. We call it mothertongue. The basic qualities are attributed to her. We are her image.
Then our father who bestows upon us the qualities and views of our life. Then our friends, surroundings, people we move with, earth the space the elements and the beings we teach are all gurus for something or other.
Again we also have a day called Gurupoornima or ashadha sukla poornima, which is meant to thank and worship our gurus. Whatever be it, it is good to remember and live in tge attitude of gratitude for we are what we are now because of the knowledge we got from them.
Asatho ma sad gamaya.. thamaso ma jyotirgamaya.. mrityor ma amritam gamaya.. Om santhi santhi santhi:
