From Darkness to Light

How many of you called on some of your teachers, who in more than one way, might have been the turning point of your life?

I wonder if teacher's Day - after all, if teachers cannot themselves recognize the value of their teachers, then how students will follow suit. Isn't every teacher another teacher's creation?

From being a caveman, man has evolved to what he is today. While all other creations have shown only marginal evolution through centuries of living, man's progress alone has been dramatic. Who made this possible? The teachers! You may say, "The thinkers!" but who taught the thinkers to think? Again, the teachers! What makes me write this Awakening? Some teacher who held my hand and taught me to write a b c d... What makes you read this? Some teachers have been the connecting thread to the wisdom of every age, the cultural bridge from one generation to another, responsible for the flow of language and communication across culture and civilization. How did the prophecies of enlightened masters, the logic of the mathematicians, the discoveries and inventions of the scientists, the thoughts and ideas of the philosophers, the history of the history makers, etc... reach the common man? Through the teachers!

The irony is that most of the teachers themselves do not carry the pride in being a teacher. Teaching has diminished to yet another bread winning profession. We all need to earn our bread; but, for a good teacher bread is a positive by-product of the satisfaction she gets out of the self-expression she finds as a teacher. People who take up teaching for anything other than shaping the mind and heart of their students debase the sanctity of teaching. Please do not devalue teaching should be a self-expression with a sense of purpose; with a feeling that you are architect of tomorrow's world. Teaching should not be an intellectual choice, but rather than emotional flowering - a spiritual expression.

The knowledge, the maturity, the wisdom, the language, the literacy, the degrees, the certificates, the testimonials, the skills, the personality ... all that we carry within ourselves are contributions from various teachers in our lives. Every piece of knowledge not only carries in it the words of the teacher but also the energy of the teacher. A teacher student relationship isn't mere transference of words, but transference of energy too. In every word inherited from a teacher, a part of the teacher is present. When you reject the teacher, you also reject the energy of the teacher. If you are not grateful to the source of your knowledge then that knowledge becomes useless to you. That's why the heart of a student towards his teacher is more significant in a teacher-student relationship than the heart of a teacher towards his student.

What we have given to our teachers can be measured; what our teachers have given us can never be measured.

courtesy: Frozen thoughts, Vol. 30, Issue 3, September 2010, p.40