Some words of warmth

Venue:              Jayadev Bhaban

Time:                23^rd Nov,12

Occasion:         The Platinum Jubilee birth Anniversary of Sri R.M.Ray

And an experience runs thus......

the meeting ended and a learned man from the dais came to me and complimented & blessed me and told me that my address and presentation before the gathering was a pleasant one. Those very words were very encouraging and it motivated to tap all my potentials in the coming days..........The motivation and inspiration still lingers......And I am most thankful to Prof. Harekrishna Sathapathy, V.C. of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati for his kind words that will serve as a source of lasting inspiration to me.

Miles to go

When darkness encircles our lives and our spirits are dampened in suicidal desperation, the inspiring lives of great men and women can provide us the strongest grounds for bright hopes. And at those troubled times of our lives their glorious and incomparble human endurance can prove to be the greatest solace and the brightest guiding lamp to the disheartened or dejected spirits.

EVERYBODY on earth has indubitably a hard life and even the people whom we say great have undergone many life-and-death struggles before reaching the heights that we often admire with our gaping mouths.

Hold your heads high, salute all those greatmen and women and rhyme with R.Frost, “ The woods are lovely, dark and deep/And I have miles to go before I sleep”

The joy of teacher

A teacher is true to his profession when he/she helps his/her learners widen the horizons of their lives. A teacher who derives pleasure by accelerating the learners’ progress has achieved the charm of his/her profession. Every moment of a teacher’s life must be a pill of inspiration and new vision to the learners. He/she ought to be a constant source of motivation and new light for others. Therefore, a lot of hard work on the part of the teacher is a pre-requisite to brace himself/herself as an instiller of the love of learning and wisdom.

We will say that a teacher has done justice to his/her profession when that teacher’s students cross beyond their teacher’s highest expected limits. And the best time comes to the teacher when the teacher himself/herself gets utterly amazed at the stupendous success of his/her learners.   

406kms/10hrs 40 min

The morning was cloudy and it was 6.20am. I ignited my bike engine and saw the initial reading to be 22,135kms on the speedometer. Before I passed the forest check gate that marks the end of Govindapally village, I had offered around Rs 250/- as a way of Dussera Tips to the village lineman, the paper hawker, the washer-man, the hotel boy, etc. They were all so happy. In response to the tips, I was abundantly returned by their smiling gestures.

I went cutting through the moist and cold atmosphere with a heavy-bag tightly fastened to the edges of my bike. The road that passes through the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada and Kandhamal is fully damaged and is completely worn-out.However, I had decided to reach home before 5pm. I drove the bike steadfastly without any delay on the way. Even I sacrificed the joy of entering into a well-to-do restaurant for my breakfast. It was because I wanted to save time. So the best alternative was to take my breakfast standing in one of the road-side makeshift hotels. I ate like Kumbhakarna but surprisingly, I was billed a modest amount of Rs 30/-. My eating binge did not stop here. On my way I drank green coconut water, 7 bananas, one big-sized chocolate, 2 coconut stuffed cakes, a small packet of mixture, grape juice and my lunch at Baliguda. And when I saw my speedometer at home, I found the reading 22,541kms. I had covered 406 kilometers in 10 hours 40 minutes.

After my safe reach I was deliriously happy because of the following reasons.

* I was amazed at my own capability to undertake such a strenuous long journey all alone.

* I showed an accurate time sense and I could fulfill my wish to reach home safely by 5pm.

* I suffered no puncture, no harsh weather, no breakdown of the machine and no accident.

* I drove safely and completed the journey without any dependence on tea (During the journey I had not taken tea).

After-effect of movies

If you do not stand for ANYTHING, you shall fall for EVERYTHING- This was the very line which went on scrolling on my mental screen all this evening. This was the essence which I derived after viewing a few Hollywood films. In the rapid action of the movies, the super heroes stirred a passion in me for a moral way of living. The influences may be short-lived or may lead to a wild fantasy but I enjoyed them because they added another hitherto undiscovered dimension to life’s journey. This dimension of life makes life dance with the tunes of imagination and abounding possibilities. In a nut shell, it helps stretch the imagination creating another world above our mundane existence.