Sound Confusing... But I guess it makes a lot of sense

A Simple Task!

 

Rajan, my spiritual mentor always says “Being a teacher is a responsibility”. A teacher is generally emulated whether the teacher is a good or a bad person because the underlying assumption for the profession is - That a teacher is good and there is always lots to learn from her/him.  Are only teachers emulated?  (Think of all the people you emulate).

Emulation is something, which we may do because of our fascination for the person or we may use the person as an excuse to do what we want to do.

Anybody could be my teacher, if I am willing to be an active student. My teacher can be the sun from whom I learn the commitment to rise everyday and do my task no matter what, my teacher can be the 80 year old friend who trekked along with me for a full day and taught me that age is no excuse for the spirit of life, my teacher could be my friend who teaches me unconditional love. My teacher can be anybody from whom I learn.

If anybody could be my teacher, am I also a teacher to someone? Then, am I being emulated? If yes, then is it my responsibility also to display behavioral characteristics which would be appreciated if emulated?

I know it’s easier to preach than follow. I agree that in this lovely world of mine, there is a lot being learnt from me without my own conscious self realizing it. When I become a parent, I would be the first teacher of my children. My little prince/princess would learn from every small action I do,  I like most of you want my children to be the best possible human beings , human beings whom the world will be in awe of and this dream of mine would become a reality only if me and mine display our  best possible behavior all the time. Only if we forget our anger, our agitation, our fights and our negativities. This would be a reality only if both of us are ardent advocates of love, peace, joy and positivity.  If only, we throw our negative traits (which the kids would easily pick up) to Jupiter. Wow! Then, I am sure my prince/princess would be no Osama or Hitler but an Obama, a Mother Teresa or just the best possible prince/princess.

When I look at the corporate world around me, I understand that every firm would like to recruit sincere, hardworking and honest people. But, they find very few potential employees with these traits. Some organizations get lucky and get sincere, hardworking and honest employees, but these employees learn from their bosses who expect honesty, that its ok to mis-sell for a big deal, they learn from their bosses who expect hard work, it’s ok to act busy. How can these bosses expect apples from an orange tree?    

I understand anybody can be a teacher. Me, you or your next door neighbor. A branch manager is a teacher to all his employees who learn from him how to be excellent sales person.   An elder sibling is a teacher, when his little brother learns discipline from the Big B , a housewife is a teacher when the neighbor learns from her how to have a beautiful home.  

Everybody is unconsciously teaching something or the other in the world around them. Everybody’s actions getting emulated sometimes by people whom they know and sometimes by somebody whom they may not even be aware of.

Are all of us not teachers? (Pls think, you’re a teacher to at least one person).If yes, then, is it not the responsibility of all of us to live a value based happy life? 

“This world is not ours we have inherited this from our ancestors and borrowed it from the next generation and the best rate of interest which we could give our next generation is a beautiful world”. This gift is possible only if all of us do only one thing – Live a value based happy life

Heal The World, heal the world, and heal the world

Make It A Better Place for You and For Me and

The Entire Human Race. …..

                                 Michael Jackson