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The Story of Teacher’s day

Namashkar. You are listening to a Divyansh Garg podcast. You can now listen to my podcasts on Spotify and YouTube. You can also get them in a written blog format on Tumblr. 5th September, A very remarkable day, isn’t it? Maybe it be chatur’s challenge to Rancho in terms of success or  be it a person who helps us achieving our success. Yes! Ghuma firake main teachers pr aa hi gya na. So this episode is dedicated to all those teachers who do not stop scolding us (of course for our own good). May it be a physical classroom or even a pandemic, they are always ready to help us. And also I will talk about story of a person who was born on this day. To fir shuru kerte h story of teachers day Kabir ji ke ek dhohe ke sath.

Guru Gobind dou khade kaake lagu paye

Bali hari guru aapne gobind diyo bataye

Koi naya dhoha to hai nhi ye. Hum sab bachpan se isse sunte aa rhe h. Lekin iska message boht bda h. These lines tells us that there is nothing greater than guru in the universe. But why? Why do we worship gurus much more than we worship gods in our country? Remember that day when you were learning to walk. You were falling again and again. Maybe you even lost hope at some time. But there was one person who was again and again motivating you to walk, showing you how to walk. That person is your guru. And by walk, I mean the journey of our life. Think what if that person would not be there with you and nobody else in the world taught you how to walk. Just think. Kya aaj hum chl pate? Hm aaj jo kuch bhi h, jo kuch bhi, sirf hmare guru ki wjah se h.

Our teachers do so much hard work for us. Just think yourself as a teacher who has to teach a class of 40 students. All of them have doubts and you have to make sure all 40 souls understand your point. Hm to ek me hi sanyas le lenge. But they….. They are just amazing. But we never recognize this do we? Just rewind your life back in your schools days when your teacher was scolding you. Do you remember what it was for? Whose fault was it? Yours or your teacher’s? Most probably it was our fault. But there were some cases when our teachers scold us without any reason. And at that time most of us literally freak out and start shouting on them right? Aur vo teachers ko aur bhi zyada pareshan kr deta h. Actually there was no point shouting on them. Instead all we had to do is ask them to have some water and relax. Tell them that they do not need to waste their energy on us every time and save some for themselves too. Ask them to have rest for they have been working on us really very hard throughout the year. But we did not this right. Hm aksar socht h chodo na jane do. Teachers h, chillate rehte h hmesha. But yaar, teacher hai to kya hua, Hai to insan hi. The same lines our teachers told us throughout our life but we never gave a second thought about them. But today, it is the time to appreciate them, to really really admire their hard work by heart. Lets wish our teachers a happy teacher day, a really happy one.

So now let’s talk about a person who was born on 5th September 1888. The one who served as Vice President and President of India, whose birthday is celebrated as teachers day in our country, he was Mr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. Hum me se bohto ko to bass inka naam pta h lekin kaam nhi pata. So let’s get started with his journey.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born in a Telugu- speaking Brahmin family, in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. His father's name was Sarvepalli Veeraswami and his mother's name was Sarvepalli Sita. His early years were spent in Thiruttani and Tirupati. His father was a subordinate revenue official in the service of a local zamindar. His primary education was at K.V High School at Thiruttani. In 1896 he moved to a Christian Missionary School in Tirupati and Government High Secondary School, Walajapet.

Sarvepalli was awarded scholarships throughout his academic life. After his F.A. (First of Arts) class, he joined the Madras Christian College at the age of 17. He graduated from there in 1906, and also finished his Masters from the same college. He studied philosophy by chance rather than choice. Being a financially constrained student, when a cousin who graduated from the same college passed on his philosophy textbooks to Sarvepalli, it automatically decided his academics course. Sarvepalli wrote his thesis for the M.A. degree on "The Ethics of the Vedanta and its Metaphysical Presuppositions”. Ye ek solid reply tha un logo ko jo ye mante the ki Vedanto me ethics ki koi bat nhi ki jati. Radhakrishnan's thesis was published when he was only twenty.

He said, “The challenge of Christian critics impelled me to make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it. My pride as a Hindu, roused by the enterprise and eloquence of Swami Vivekananda, was deeply hurt by the treatment accorded to Hinduism in missionary institutions.” This led him to his critical study of Indian philosophy and religion and a lifelong defence of Hinduism against "uninformed Western criticism". Unhone British sarkar ka apna gussa apni is thesis me nikala. Unhone likha, “it has become philosophic fashion of the present day to consider the Vedanta system a non-ethical one. The Vedanta philosophy has not neglected the important sphere of ethics; but on the contrary, we find ethics in the beginning, ethics in the middle, and ethics in the end, to say nothing of the fact that minds, so engrossed with divine things as Vedanta philosophers, are not likely to fall victims to the ordinary temptations of the world, the flesh, and other powers."

Sarvepalli then explains how this philosophy requires us to look upon all creations as one. As non-different. This is where he introduces "The Spirit of Abheda". He quotes, "In morals, the individual is enjoined to cultivate a Spirit of Abheda, or non-difference. Every other individual is to be regarded as your co-equal, and treated as an end, not a means.The Vedanta requires us to respect human dignity and demands the recognition of man as man."

Such a great life lesson it was, wasn’t it? To ye thi inki kuch highlighted philosophies, aur m personally to inki philosophy se sahi me bada impress ho gya hu. When Sarvepalli became the President of India, some of his students and friends requested him to allow them to celebrate his birthday, on 5 September. He replied,

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if September 5th is observed as Teachers' Day.

His birthday has since been celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.

So this was the story of teachers day. I hope apko boht kuch janne ko mila hoga in great philosopher ke bare me. Aur ap sabhi apne apne gurus ko dil se happy teachers day kahenge aur unki dat ko haskr swikar karenge. Dhanyawad. Thank you for listening.