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”

 

WHEN VISIONS CHANGE....

The waters are always clear, the air is always pure, the earth is always brown, no mixtures, no suspensions, no ornaments of diplomacy, flaunting, or deceit. And undoubtedly, I think, our life runs on these- the air, the water, the earth- the only sources of our existence. So, the first lesson that comes today- for all of us- is to be SIMPLE. This word is not as simple as you think it could be, it’s much more complex. Simplicity is that stage when your inner complexes stop pricking you, when you are contended with yourself and when the soul lights up not only you, but the people around you as well. The simplicity that everyone wants to absorb, the simplicity that a mentor can exhibit for his disciples to follow, the simplicity that sir has!!

Small meetings have taught me big teachings. Like the one today- where my visions changed, yet again. I am just another university student, struggling for good percentiles with fears in mind that somewhere somebody is waiting to snatch my seat with a better rank. For all those who are like me, fearing the competition more than facing it, sir has to say- “You compete with yourself always. It’s just you and you. It is all about the visibility of that image”. The visibility of the image where you will be able to pacify, inspire, and push yourself towards the escalators of success, the visibility of an image where your only enemy in the worst competitions is you, and your best friend in the biggest success is you, the visibility of an image which is your true self, unaltered, untouched, just you !!

Visions always are the most precious thing in the world, because they shape personalities, they build futures, they make the person , a person. Sir, thanks for making our visions right!!

BUILDING OR THE BASE?

Alright!! For this one, I am not going to ask you- for I know, everyone in the world knows the base is always the more important one. And if I say that more eloquently, The base is the base of that important structure that comes ahead, it falls, the structures fall, it remains , so do the structures, when it is strong, the buildings are strong, and when it’s weak, the buildings can shake!! So, you have full right to turn back with an angry face to ask me-- what’s new in that?? From the Hindi text books of class five to the architectural maps in under graduation, everyone knows that!!

So, now I lay down the difference, the one that I heard today, and as always, as any eager and happy listener, I was glad to have been a student of the person who said this- My Professor!! Says he-  “It is never about the base or the building- both are equally important, both are equally magnificent!! When earthquakes shake it all, both of them fight. One completes the other. The base is strong, the building is beautiful, the base is deep down the Earth, the building is up high in the sky, and success is as strong as it’s beautiful, as deep as it’s high”. Sometimes the base is not visible, but the building knows it stands on it; sometimes the building is not given the credits for being strong, but the base knows, it was made because the building was needed.

And that’s how it maps from buildings and bases to the philosophy of life. Sometimes, you are the base, sometimes the building, but all the time, you are an important part!! And that matters. So , the next time you go to the analysis part of testing whether you are the base or the building, remember this once. And then, the analysis would not be needed, the credits would not be given or taken, the blames would not have to be pointed out—and then, may be, you will know what a “team” means!!

Sir, teachers always teach us the best things in life, the ones that we carry ahead, some forgotten, and some broken but good memories of lifetime teachings. But your lessons are so important that we want to eliminate the “forgotten” or “broken” bits. We want to keep them alive, in words that you said them- untouched, complete, candid and splendid as they have always been...

IT'S ALL ABOUT BEING AT THE TOP, STAYING CONNECTED TO THE BOTTOM

All people in the world are eternally emotional when it comes to observing- observing the helpless, weeping, poor, downtrodden, heart-moving, eye-flashing sights of the world!! And when it comes to helping, to lending a hand, to wiping the tears , to sharing a thought, ironically, the same observant people move back- simply because they have many problems of their own, and what help can helping someone essentially lower in status than them do to them. And let’s accept it, we all, are in that category, if not apparent, then actually, inherently!!

This is about a short anecdote that I virtually saw, felt and assimilated today- and the credit goes to sir, proudly saying, our mentor! Morning 9:30, is the time when people in India leave for their offices, schools and colleges- finely dressed, perfumes in place, brilliant cars and showers of other things to flaunt. And then when they step out of their cars, if they see some sweeper sweeping the floor, they are likely to, and most of the times they do, get offended for that low person to have flown dust across their face. And in 99% cases I have heard people saying-“Could you not have done this earlier?”(Frowning)

And now maintaining the fact that Sir is different, here’s it. Morning 9:30, yes the same time that defined the story above, sir was in his office. Seeing the sweeper turn in, when I was expecting the normal Indian answer, sir smiled and said- “Yes, yes come in! Should I go out? And you must also have some cold drink; it is very hot these days’ and more than that- The same Smile!! Small incidence, Big lessons. I know, it is just a part of his good behaviour may be, but for me – it’s a lifetime thing to learn – to learn that sometimes the biggest impressions are created when you are close to people , not when you tend to be away, sometimes the biggest satisfactions are earned when you bend a little, not always when you walk upright, sometimes you earn respect when you smile, more than when you want to earn it when you frown, sometimes the biggest values are imbibed when you help those who are the less helped , not always by extending dinners at Hyatt, sometimes the heights are more high, when you stay connected to the bottom, sometimes the highest zeniths can be touched, when you drop a little rope to help those who lie at the Nadirs, may be then – the flight would be different, the colours of sky will be different- that’s what sir has taught me!

I do not know how to thank a person for making me imbibe the biggest value- the value of helping, the value of smiling, the value of being a person, but whatever words can be framed for that “THANKS”, I wish to use for sir!! Thank-you sir, for that constant teaching where you taught your followers to be humans.

                              

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Well, the readers of this blog have asked me often, how can it be true about an Engineering college's professor, that too a DSP and Image processing Professor. How can a person be so perfect when it comes to the Human Domain, as he is in the Signals Domain ? So for all readers and friends, I have no answer. I am myself surprised all the times and elated at others when he talks flawlessly about Life , with an Image Processing book in one hand, and strict professional technical papers in the other. All I can say is- We are blessed to have such a person. Having him as our mentor, has been one of the most biggest blessings, we ever had, because everything in life is easy except finding a right direction. And he helps everyone with that, even his foes , I suppose. So here's another rhyme, from his students, to him- for all his followers- the most special teacher...

Some philosophies win your heart,

Some will win your soul,

Some thoughts will touch your mind,

Some will colour your personality, whole.

Some people will show you your paths,

The special ones will make you walk through them,

Some will brush the leaves of your tree,

The special ones will strengthen the stem.

Some people will be present when you need them long,

The special ones will stay with you, on your journeys along,

Some people will come to you, when for help you will call,

The special ones won’t need to be called; they will take your worries all,

Some people whom we meet on the roads of life wide,

Some people, special, in whom we all confide,

Some people whom we call – TEACHERS

Some people whom we call PREACHERS.

All we have to say today, for our teacher is short,

The lines that come ahead, that’s the only thought.

We wish every teacher was just like you,

And every one in the world, had a mentor true,

People come and people go,

Special ones like you are rare, though,

For your convictions strong, our heads we do bow,

“The value of life” ,for making us know!!!

We promise....

Not everyone is blessed with the most favourite people of God, those people who infuse in us a spirit of kindness, innovation, energy, faith and truthfulness, but we indeed are luckier than the most people to have been blessed with Him, yes i'll not use him, i'll say Him, because that's what the truth is! And today, when He said " It's not the failure of the student, it's the failure of the teacher." He further said, it's not the system that's incapiciated, it's the person who has made it so.I realised, everytime i think, i know the vastness of my mentor's ocean of enlightment, of selflessness, i come to know, i had just counted those shells lying there and thought that was the end of His soul's beauty, but it's actually unfathomable. And today, we promise you, sir we won't ever let you down, we won't ever let you fail and all we need is your blessings, your guidance that has helped us tread through the toughest of tasks and has enlightened our souls!