Happy Teacher’s Day 👩🏻‍🏫

Imploring beckoning all you excellent teachers to come ahead once more and give humanity what you have always been giving, but a little more.

Dear Teachers, yours is a noble profession, we have no doubt, you’ll have done more than your bit, and it’s not what this is about. However, your presence in the future generation will be felt more than just seen. And that can be done if you take a step further in the scene – to go beyond cultural and conditional norms and fill out examination forms.

Agreed, one needs to learn English, Maths, the Sciences and working skills to earn a living, but what about those skills one needs for well-being? So, dear teachers, can you help mend the dents caused by the vicious circle of ambition, lust and greed so intense today that it surpasses all other needs? The need for happiness and peace, love and compassion – aren’t they qualities we need to have instead of just being embedded in books of higher living? Can you bring them out of those books and into life and living for the well-being of those souls who will be the future living?

Life, as you know, can only be complete in its diversity. Teach them, dear teachers, that it is okay to be different, but it is not okay to not know who they are. For in the garb of doing what parents, teachers and guides tell them, they lose out on who they are, just as those very parents, teachers and guides lost out on themselves. They did as their parents, teachers, guides told them, and so on.

Now, the “forth” can be changed with a little effort, for let them not just be as we were. Help them change with the times and leave behind that culture, tradition and norm that was apt in older times. Today is a new day, a day with a promise of sunshine, and prosperity, a day where the light shines brightest from an inward sun.

Teach them, dear teachers, to look within and see the sun’s light, for the outward sun has been blurred from vision. It is blurred by the excessive pollution caused by greedy minds wanting more. More power, wealth, and achievements have burnt out the oil from the lamp of the conscience, thus leaving room for achievements to take over the consciousness of the soul.

Teach them to keep their lamps burning by rejuvenating their being with positive energy from within, for today’s times, we need a different song, a soothing lullaby, apt on nights of a storm.

Teach them, as nature has us, that in diversity, there is unity, thus emptying the dark pockets of their mind of conformity that arise out of fear and social commitments. Then, as the pockets of the mind are emptied of conformity, enters the fresh breath of individualism, undivided and whole, which will come as a refresher.

Aha, can you, dear teacher, help in the transformation? Can we grow together, teacher and student, teach and learn? The teacher is to be the learner and vice versa. Can we listen to what this generation wants us to? Can we, without bias, understand their ideas and viewpoints unbiased by our culture and conditions? Then, we can guide them correctly and unbiasedly by any norm or principle.

That is when we’ll all fly, teacher and student, for the wings of freedom will carry us far away from any binding norm except the one which binds us all together — the String of Love.

And that day, dear teacher, we will transform, and as we become a light to ourselves, so will we be all around.