Pain as a teacher - Pain is a great teacher. Whenever we get pain, we should carefully listen to what it is saying to us. In haste we many a times miss what it has to say to us. If we will listen to it and will try to learn what it wants to teach us, our life will become easier.
Importance of teacher - Teacher is an integral part of educational process. In Indian culture it is referred as 'Guru'. The role of teacher varies to a great extent depending on the subject to be taught and the students who are learning. A real teacher creates life long impression on the life of student. And then the student who follows those values becomes teacher one day. But becoming a teacher is a natural process and not an artificial one. Osho says that becoming Guru cannot be the aim! It is when others try to follow a person and then the person is called as Guru. We can always strive to be a good student, it is up to people if they want to follow us and want to refer to us as Guru.
Importance of student - As we cannot decide to be a teacher, we can try to become a good student. There is one more reason to strive to be a good student. And that is - many a times we cannot find a real teacher! A real teacher takes birth after many years and is difficult to find out. It may happen that we will loose much of our life time finding him. Access to a real teacher may be difficult. Though we will get access to him / her it is a big process to take knowledge from him and then applying it in life! As becoming a good student is in our hand, we should focus on that.
Books as a teacher - In this process of becoming a good student, books prove to be a great teacher. I may not be able to see Mahatma Gandi or Veer Savarkar by my own eyes, but with help of books, I can understand their thoughts. I can listen to their voice and I can see their mighty acts! I can read the intense love for motherland in the life of Bhagat Sing. I can feel the pain of homeless Afagani Children in books and so on...... I can live many lives in such a way with the help of books. Hence books are a great teacher. Reading requires simple skills but it gives us treasure of emotions and wisdom in the world.
Come... Let's try to be good students!
