Xxx LEARNING AND PUTTING IN PRACTICE
If learning was the guarantee of putting in practice what was learnt, we would have saints inhabiting this planet. That was the purpose was learning in the first place, isn't it?
The first thing we were made to sing in the school assembly was "he Prabhu Anand data gyan hamko deejiye.........(Oh God, the giver of happiness, bestow knowledge upon us....)The another one was "wah shakti hame do dayanidhe............" (Give us the strength oh! God of kindness...........). The prayers went on praying for truthfulness, good behavior, free from sins and all those virtues that all humans aspire. Similar prayers might have been sung in schools all over India. The prayers was a daily routine up to high school as far as I remember. More than 10 years of praying.
Since then most of us have read volumes of material of these virtues and every day we are flooded with still more on social media. If that was not enough we are surrounded by god men and god women, spiritual leaders, not forgetting our daily trips to the places of worship.
How come that learning has not been a part of our practicing? Why could we not practice what we learnt?
Neither the prayer nor the subsequent learning could make us a good human being. This has no clear answer. May be we were not meant to be good human beings in the first place. May be those who composed that prayer and those who penned subsequent learning material did so after lot of introspection. If so they must have done so after crossing their prime and realized the mistakes they committed and wanted to tell the young generation and anybody who cared to pray, read or listen not to commit similar mistakes. Ultimately we had to go and pray.
On hind side, may be I am writing this piece as me too have crossed the prime.
Fact is we all are good people. Circumstances make us bad. And this a good excuse, an escape route. "What could I do?"- becomes the buzz word.
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