If I Can, So Can You
by A teacher’s love for children is all that matters to me…
If I can, So can you
Raja Sharma
Very rarely do I come across a human whose eyes eloquently tell me that he or she can. All over the world teachers, gurus, philosophers, parents, and elders of the society keep on imposing their ideas on the younger generation without ever trying to know whether they are interested in the assigned task or not.
Some might say that children are only interested in those things which appeal to them but they forget that it is the duty of the master to make uninteresting things interesting for the children. Elders often complain that children don’t want to study, they don’t like reading books, or they don’t show interest in the things which their elders believe would be good for them. I am not surprised at it because it is but natural that children don’t like to do those things. The experiences of the elders are the result of their long process of learning during which they had also felt that kind of dislike initially but gradually came to know about the usefulness of all those things which they want to pass on to posterity.
I have a vision of an absolutely new kind of person. That person should be able to love; he should not go to a monastery, or temple, or mosque, or church; he should see the existence of nature everywhere. He should live in the marketplace and yet he should be able to drop all possessiveness, all attachments, all clinging, and all jealousy.
You will say that I am trying to sell these lofty ideas. Hold on, I am trying to inform you that it can be done because I have done it, so you can do it. I present my view about the human behavior through my own experience. I never say a single thing which is not my own experience.
An old master’s story will be quite appropriate to quote here:
There was a saint. A woman came to him dragging her small child and said to the master,” I am sick of this child. He eats so many sweets that I am afraid he will be ill, his teeth will become rotten. He suffers from stomachache and other temporary ailments. Please tell me what I should do.”
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