HAPPY DIWALI PROFESSOR...for the value of lights that you taught us

Lights all around are splendid and magnificent and they mean brightness, spirit, strength and happiness. So, I thought , how can I not visit this blog, for this blog belongs to a person who has not just taught us, but has lighted our lives with his sayings, all precious. And why this Diwali gives me a reason to write on this blog is because my Mentor is the person who made me understand the meaning of that word-LIGHT.
 For us as his students, the light he made us see the light of truth, the light of never dying hope, the light of smiles, the light that will not let us face any wrong, be it the darkest darkness of the world , because this light is from our soul. Wishing our Professor, Happy Diwali, because it is the festival of lights.

DSP... LIVED ONCE AGAIN

Yes I accept! Well some people in the world might call me typically Engineering Oriented, but I have other reasons to be completely obsessed with Digital Signal Processing. The first one is , it’s my Mentor’s subject, and the second one is- I am amazed the way my Prof. can actually map everything in the world into this domain. In fact, on this blog, I can internationally claim that if anyone thinks DSP is not their passion, do come to my college and attend Semester 6, 45 marvelous lectures and 12 exciting labs is not what I am talking about, I am talking about the DSP of your life that he’ll teach you.

Here’s what he says about life- “God has given us a Bandwidth-that’s life, and it’s a mixture of good and bad. So our job is to figure out and to filter out the good for us...as simple as that”. And if I perfectly mention it in DSP, I would say that he is one person who can remove the Gibb’s phenomenon out of your life forever, because he has the power to smoothen the discontinuities in his students’ lives, that too with ideal filter sharpness, yet no ripples.

He says- “There’s just one way to success, and that’s to have no negative thoughts ever. The only way that you should see, the only vision that you should hold, the only thing that your soul must echo is- I can do it, and there’s nothing that can’t be done”. Because life is a continuous function, and thus it has infinite solutions. He says; just leave the outcomes on themselves, because true efforts never fail. They are like those little sparks, who may take time, but when they fire, they can light miles.

Many a times, when his students come to him and tell him about a hundred reasons for not doing work, sometimes apparent and sometimes superficially plausible, he just smiles and says- “Cribbing will never help. Don’t hinge upon excuses. Make things work, and they will work!!” He says, when you really want something and you work on it by heart, mind and soul, even the inanimate lifeless things would wish for you, will make you win and make all your hurdles transparent; they will conspire to give you all that you truly desired.

We often tell him- “Sir, it’s not that easy. There are so many tasks, so many problems, the world is so difficult and Engineering, even more”. To that, sir says: “Two things are needed to win anything in life, howsoever mighty, or big, and they are Consistency and Thought”. He tells us to do our best, and leave the validation for the viability of our work to God.

Well, sir, I really have fallen out short on trying to figure out what’s the best way to thank you , for all talks that would keep me and all your followers smiling forever. But then I think, some people can never be thanked, because they are Infinite... And for us as average people, we are taught infinity doesn’t exist and we can never reach it . And as you say- God’s always unreachable....

THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS IS - TRUTH!!

When we start seeing around, we can often find the magnanimous amount of corruption, enlarged conspiracies and the never ending melodrama of the circles of infinite diplomacies, all hidden behind a veil that we can never put off. That’s how the world is, sweet but bitter!! And this kills, kills the innocence of truth, the hope of good, and the passion for life sometimes! Yes, at-least I can say that as a confident Engineering Student, still looking for a good place in the corrupt domains.

And there I am, back to my campus, back to the room of that single person whom I correctly call the panacea for all despair that his students have. A person who just simply says- “Why bother about the world, when it’s all about YOUR good deeds”, “why look at the world, and not yourself”. Yes, I can track it all back, when sir said- May be more than half of the things in this world are screwed up, but why do we not see the rest of them- that are ours. That’s the vision that my Mentor gave me and I think, in fact, I am sure, this is the only mantra for all success, satisfaction, happiness and peace.

Sir says there’s only one thing that works- and its TRUTH, the only achievement, the only way to a happy future, the only measure of the true success, the only thing in front of which every power fails, every corruption bows down and even the biggest ‘Wrong’ of the world would sit on suppliant knees to beg in repentance. That’s the power of Truth, simple and true...That’s all!!

There are certain sayings by special persons that are important. You just like to hear them. But for sir, neither of the above is applicable. Because these are not just sayings, these are some precious words, by a person whom I am not sure, if I should call a person, rather some heavenly messenger that I want to preserve whatever he says, forever. Perhaps that’s how teachers are, flawless and positive always... And their sayings, so truthful, that I know when I am going to be in trouble even after 20 years, I am going to come back to this blog... And I am going to return happy.... Thank you sir... for being there always....

NOT THE SPRINKLES, BUT THE SPRING...

Springs are places where origins, optimisms, beginnings and hopes give themselves the shape for their existence. It is the place wherefrom the decisions find strength to walk down the right lanes to reach destinations. And that’s why I say, my mentor is the spring of all optimism that exists.

As he always does say, this time too, it’s about a great philosophy, that I particularly liked and assimilated too. He says- “Life is a game, where God is playing both sides, and we are the outcomes”. Truthfully enough, a game on which we have no hold, we aren’t players, we aren’t anything, just what God decides us to be. So the best way to live is be happy and face what comes ahead, with all energy and spirit, no apprehensions, no expectations.

Sir says, sometimes in life, it’s important to leave the threads loose, and give life a chance to be what it wants to be. The trick is to let things happen the way they want to! You loosen the threads, not cut them. Hoping for good is always wanted, but hoping too much is not! And for all people who believe that future might not be good, sir has to say- Anticipating the future before you live it makes life lesser. The zest of life is in living it full, loosing it less.

For the sadness in us many a times because of small failures, which you converted in innumerable smiles forever, because your teachings give us the meanings of life, all we can say is- “We wish God had created more ways to thank a person like you”. But all we can desire with a true wish is your happiness and we are sure it will be yours, because even God would be proud of creating a person like you....

HAPPY TEACHER's DAY TO OUR FAVOURITE PROFESSOR....

Magics do happen. In fact, behind every successful story there’s a magician. And that magician is called- “TEACHER”. A person who, I believe, can inspire you when you are most discouraged, a person who can breathe life in you when you are about to give up, a person who can create belief when all your beliefs have died down, a person who can give you existence when you have lost it, the one who is true, splendid, and in true sense – a messenger sent by God for thousands of those whom God wants to be happy, educated and truthful.

On this eve of Teacher day, not just from me to my teacher but by every true disciple of the world to his magnificent teacher- All we wish is your blessings to be with us forever, all we pray is for you to be happy always, all we desire is for God to give you the honour of being “THE BEST TEACHER”. We know we are not at the position of wishing that, but with a hope that on Teacher’s day, God will listen to the students for sure, all we ask is- for your all wishes to be true always.....

HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY!!!!

THE WATERS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Some waters are deep! Ordinary people remain at the shores because the waves seem too large to catch up with, but once you take a dip, your ‘want’ to drown yourself in the water keeps increasing day by day, second by second. And one of those deep, pacifying yet exciting waters is “ENLIGHTENMENT”. Too far yet close, achievable yet unknown!!

Waters are difficult to cross always. You don’t only need boats! What you actually need is- The person who knows where the treasure of the ocean lies! A person that by now, I suppose, every reader of this blog respects, appreciates and admires. To me particularly, rooms of the most learned Professors have been monotonous. Books, papers, pens, mark sheets, magnifiers, a few capacitances and big awards-if you happen to be unfortunately in an Engineering College- That’s called a Professor’s room.

But for the person who is the reason for this blog and its infinite worthy teachings, I have found his room close to my Classroom. A classroom where, when the chalk works, the writings get scribbled not on the black board, but straight in my mind! A classroom where I don’t study about processors and micro controllers, but about making my visions right.  

Being an Engineer, I think it’s a part of our habit. We don’t leave loopholes in making notes. We are extractors. So here’s a part from the notes I made today, no fortunately not about rectifiers, but about life....

Sir says, life is not about running a race or winning it, it is about peace, it is about inner satisfaction, it’s about the simplicity of an inherent existence. Races can’t ever make us win, they create instabilities that ripple down the society and lead to the biggest waves of unstable oscillations. The kind of instability that leads to winning, but not to true success, that leads to money, but not to contentment. And in life, the latter matter more, much more.

About every Engineer, there is a single story- and the title of that story is blindly- Placement. If you need elaborations- PACKAGE. That’s where life ends for us! But sir says, the depth of knowledge can bring any success, the shallow muds can keep you engaged but they can never bring happiness! Money is always an entity, will always be, but it never was “THE entity”, and never will be.

On knowing yourself , sir has to say- “If ever in life, you need to analyze what you are, what you have been, just see the mirror, as simple as that”. And then may be, you will come to know, what you have done, what you have lost, what you have been, what you have got. Sir says- “At the end it is about YOU and YOU”. Challenges can never be taken from outside. It’s just between the little machinery in there- your heart and your mind. Your heart wishes, and your mind does- that’s the path for every success- From the heart straight to the Mind- No hormones, no blood, just the spark to get lighted, to be successful.

Failures are something that we all fear- from age 1 for the fear of not getting food, to age 60 of not getting money. But sir says- if you face failure in life, it has got just two meanings- either the path is difficult so you will need to work harder, or the path is not for you, may be you were meant to be someone else. Failure never means pessimism, the thought that you have failed is wrong. Failure always means optimism- your efforts can fail, but not you. Failures are created because of our Apprehensions- the negative that we emit, once the apprehensions come to an end, every storm inside us comes to a stop. That’s where we forget about the differences between winning and failing. And that’s when we truly win, from inside!!

Things always come up together. So for Success , sir says- success is when you learn to LEARN without fearing, it is about accepting that you can loose, it’s about losing in small trifles to win the big war. Success is always simple, the paths are a bit twisted!  And for success, all we need is to believe in ourselves, to believe in God. And  if you need to see God, you need to be sure that everything inside you comes transparent, without flaw, without malice, without the heavy stones of wild games that destroy the flow of natural emotions.

Sir says- The true bondages are linked by heart. They are not about showing or flaunting your respect and feelings, it is more about valuing them, it is about wishing for someone’s good when miles away, it’s about the large multidimensional heavy-weighted omnipotent blessings that come in nanoseconds to you when you need them- Against all laws of science, but following the law of true bonds!! And for your followers sir, the bonds were and will always be important, because they are the threads which taught us to live life the way it is- difficult but easy, sad but happy, because you taught us to see the better side of things!!

BLESSINGS INFINITE....

Some people in life are revered enough that taking a blessing from them becomes a source of peace, and happiness. This one- a salute from all your students for the infinite , unweighed blessings that only a true GURU can give....

When we are sad,

And our feelings bad,

The one that elates,

From the heaven’s straight,

What relieves that gloomy state??

And rejuvenates our happiness great??

The blessings of our teacher true,

When he says- “God bless you”

In the rains of fears,

In the rivers of tears,

The one that brings us back,

And again lights our track,

What brightens those sad fates??

And opens our strength’s gates??

The colours of that pious hue,

When he says- “God bless you”

In our life so long,

And its challenges strong,

The one that brings belief,

The one that brings relief,

Are those blessings huge and wide,

From our mentor, from our guide,

Pure as a prayer, and the Almighty’s view,

Just that little- “God bless you”