Our attitude has been the biggest hurdle in our quest - be it anything including the journey towards Moksha - we are...
Our attitude has been the biggest hurdle in our quest - be it anything including the journey towards Moksha - we are lacking in sincerity and seriousness. I salute many Westerners they score in these 2 areas - we also behave like cowards - to much focussed on commercial aspects of life. All parents want their children to - study so called English medium in school - even after studying for 12 years they can write a meaningful note on a particular topic - all copy paste from Web, and then Engineering in colleges - no use, they can't even change the fuse in their houses, get campus selected and get into some IT company - still worse, they need to be trained for a minimum of 12-18 months before they become productive, go to US to make Greenbacks - too short sighted and focused only on money while they are there - don't go to courses to upgrade knowledge, add futher technical, managerial and linguistics skills, they don't go and enroll in to some University programmes for higher /executive education, be there for 2-3 terms of H1B and stand into the line for a green card, grow another set of ABCDs. Is there anything significant in this cycle - 95% fall in this category. If you're seeking money do it properly - get into Ivy league and get an MBA and be ruthless about it. If you're seeking Yogic powers - go behind an Agori and roam in Himalaya and learn from anyone and everyone be again focussed on that, If you're good in Maths - stay focussed on Maths in school, college and post gratuation and even post doctoral studies. We seem to settle for mediocrity on everything, cut corners on everything, compromise on everything, zero risk taking, always anxious, worried, insecure, stoned with Cricket, Movies and Dirty politics added to that watching useless TV debates of left leaning intellectuals - aren't we simply wasting our time. Deep inside we know all this - thus many have inferiority complex also because we are unable to act.
How many are ready to break out of the cocoon and fly or do we want be a worm in the safty of the cocoon !.
With world economy heading for another serious nosedive, only the tough and the ones who are ready to take risks would prosper - rest will suffer even within the comforts of their cocoon.
Why can't we think of putting our children in Veda PaTasaalas and Saastra PaTasaalas, Why can't we inspire them to study Sanskrit, shastreeya sangeetam, Kalari, Ayurveda and many other things like Fine Arts. Many are flourings in these areas. Even in normal schools /colleges why we don't allow them to choose anything other than Engineering /Medicine ?
How many are ready to break out of the cocoon and fly or do we want be a worm in the safty of the cocoon !.
With world economy heading for another serious nosedive, only the tough and the ones who are ready to take risks would prosper - rest will suffer even within the comforts of their cocoon.
Why can't we think of putting our children in Veda PaTasaalas and Saastra PaTasaalas, Why can't we inspire them to study Sanskrit, shastreeya sangeetam, Kalari, Ayurveda and many other things like Fine Arts. Many are flourings in these areas. Even in normal schools /colleges why we don't allow them to choose anything other than Engineering /Medicine ?
Very well said. We all have one life to live then why not do what we love rather than just existing.
ReplyDeletegood article. this is the lament of ppl like me!
ReplyDeleteproud to say that my son after finishing +2 became a vedic scholer!
excuse me for a lot of typing errors and spelling mistakes my keyboard is a bit old in my laptop also my typing skills are bad
ReplyDeletegood thinking.
ReplyDeletestiff competition, if u opt anything other than eng/med, u r going to struggle for the rest of ur life. its the population and scarce resources that is resulting in this stressful life
ReplyDeleteI'm not against Engg /Medicine - even that is not studied deeply - let each one of the student strive to become the Good Engineer /Good Doctor - I mean wholistically. Don't stop upgrading your skills, knowledge, and also keep an open mind for all kinds of Alternatives (alternative medicine and alternative technologies). I was by an electonics Engineer myself but when I opened an Electric Iron box 20 years back for first time I learnt what I knew and what I don't know - since then all my PCs are assembled by me, I did do some wiring, reparing some electinic appliances, etc. - if one go to Nehru Place in Delhi, Ritchie st. in Chennai, similar electronic/ computer spare /hardware markets, one can witness the so called uneducated people easily open Laptops and service them - where did they learn - by observing and applying logic - those persons are always in learning mode - they can today open a iPad and perform service, tomorrow something else - they keep learning with out much effort. Whats stopping all of us from doing that "Learning" in our respective areas. How many of our programmers update their skills - they settle in some job which is just maintenance of some old stuff developed 10 years back, etc. when the time comes for change they are unsettled not just physically also mentally - anxiety - what is the need ? - this attitude is what I'm pointing out
ReplyDeletewell if everybody update their skills, there will be no room for new comers. hehe
ReplyDeleteactually we are lazy, that is what is keeping us backward
I very much agree with your views. Nice post.
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