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By Aniket Bhattacharya
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How I came out of it?
Like most sincere thinkers I too strongly opine that open minds are always got to be conditional on the grace of an open heart.
Whatever may be the conditions, we pray to God never let this happen and let the present world remain as it is now.
More or less every one of my age has an old Nana (Maternal Grandfather) and all such Nanas look or behave near alike and at par with their age and maturity, but my Nana Mr. Sampat Mishra is a unique piece of a human being whom the Almighty God must have created with a different plan.
I can bet a fortune that this topic is bound to provoke serious thoughts in each and every mind of this gathering of viewers and listeners :)
A year later, even the planet where we stay will be at the same place because of its constant elliptical motion with no specific goal but only few driving forces at the center to make it revolve rather than stay stationary. Hence, for me a bifurcation made based on the level of goals in the journey of each individual soul whom we meet should not any day be the criteria to judge. In fact, a judgmental nature which has been nourished with a comparative approach is itself one of the lamest state of mind one can ever have. So, let us save this capability of judgement for the fields and areas where they don’t sound lame. Probably my level ten may be your level one or someone else’s level twenty, this itself proves the very thought of sub-categorization as lame when it comes to knowing someone’s journey, where in my opinion sharing the varied experiences of the journey from A to be B with the one from X to Y will bring more bliss to the entire task and will also positively justify our DNA of being a social animal. Saying that, when it comes to judging yourself then the concept of level can of course be applied since there is only one reference of the starting point and as a part of self-awareness one should at least be capable enough to define his own displacements from their reference origin at different stages of their lives. Similarly, by this time I am also able to find myself averagely displaced from my origin where I judged myself eligible enough to share few fragments of my journey in a way that will allow the readers to connect with me since I find my life as a very common one which comprises of a child hood in a middle class family, an engineering degree from a private college, a job in IT and a life partner. I think I don’t further need more words to convince you all regarding the commonness I own. But the different points of view by every individual on this earth regarding these common experiences vary that results into several forms of delivery of these experiences. I hope the method of my delivery in the form of this assignment will keep you engaged for a while and will produce some sort of connection with me. There are neither big methods explained here, nor I know the art of living, I just pushed myself to find time from this busy schedule and took an initiative to feel few of my simple life experiences starting from the childhood till date. These experiences are not at all involving any adventure or game changing feelings that changed my entire life, I am still the same as any other common fellow but the only thing which may prove me as different from few of the youngsters of this country is my plan for the next phase of my life and the conclusions which I drew from all these experiences mentioned in this assignment.
A number of myths were broken during this visit. Men can survive and live happily without electricity. There is no dearth of entertainment in the remote places. Village people enjoy much better health conditions than the urban folks. Urban materialism lacks the feeling of affectionate and innocent selfless love. So, this visit of a remote and powerless village was a boon in disguise to me and proved to be an eye opener on myths and ground reality.
The state of childhood is the one where the person probably has the highest level of focus, curiosity and energy. Both mind as well as the body is fresh and ready to face different experiences. The innocence, parental guidance and truthfulness of the kid makes him a great picker till the time he has not come across any disastrous experience. An experience or a bunch of experiences that have the power to turn your innocence into maturity varies from person to person. There are a few kids who were unlucky enough to quit childhood at an early age of may be six or seven due to occurrence of certain unpleasant experiences at an early stage of their lives. As far as my case is concerned, I was fortunate enough to stay away from any game changing experience and for me, life was just like any other normal kid with good people and well-wishers around. I don’t know whether my thought will be understood by you all, but do you feel the same sense of purity as I do by remembering your childhood? The mind automatically compares our current state with the one we are thinking about and whenever I think about my childhood I feel that the life was far better and peaceful than it is now. Although freedom of doing wrong is more here in the current state but we all know peaceful attainment is possible only post avoidance of a wrong activity.
So, let the privatization not be a victim of mistaken identity. It is not our ego but the welfare of education that should be kept above all premonitions, because according to Swami Vivekananda “Education is a debt due from the presence to the future generation”. And we have to repay our debt by all means.
Sometimes its really unbelievable to the fact that ones luck can within a span of a day's fortune can put you to a perfect launching situation to enable help yourself grow up as a perfect human being.
The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.