Guru Pournima and the Teachers' Day are two happy rituals in the life of the otherwise much neglected teacher community. Students, whom one used to teach years ago, make it a point to write to you, to wish you. Nice feeling it always is to know that the sea of forgetfulness has shores where the sand castles of memories remain intact despite the winds and waves of current busy-dom!
Actually, with the online blitz, teaching is further losing the sheen that was anyways dimming. The online mode alienated the teachers and weakened the bond, especially because of the MCQ exam pattern that convinced most all that they are geniuses!
That is all okay. But who is a guru? Not someone who merely finishes off the portion, right? But someone who gives a vision, right? A GURU guides, understands, re-energises, undulates thus the real "me" in the student, right?
In that sense, our parents are our first and often our most concerned guru's as our lives continue to be their lifetime careers! Hence, on this auspicious day, let me bow down to 'mam janm's adya matapitaro"! Sorry, Kalidasa, the poetic world's "adyaguru" for that take off that I just could not resist. Well, our parents often have amply proved to us that guru's are forgiveness incarnate!
Pratima@ A GURU guides, understands,re-energises, and thus undulates the real self of the student, of the disciple.
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