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.
