Ethics Training cum Seminar - 20 Nov 202

 

Address of Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora (Anandwan) - Pune office

I was very happy to learn that Anandwan has an office in Pune! Yesterday, I was trying to search the address of the office but I did not find it on internet. Hence, sharing below address of the same (postal address and Google Maps location) along with contact number of the person who looks after the office there. 

Name: Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora (Anandwan) - Pune office 

Address:  c/o Mr. Ramesh V. Kulkarni, A-9, Ravishashi Banglow, Madhavbaug Hou. Society, Shivtirth Nagar, Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune - 411038

Google Maps location link: Link

Mr. Bhaskar Gokhale - 8788549340, 9970382277

Why should I be part of 'your' revolution?

The hero of the movie 'Buddha In A Traffic Jam' asks this question to the teacher (Anupam Kher) this question - Why should I be part of 'your' revolution?

So true it is! Without our knowledge, people show us some aim and after some time, they start telling us how it is our idea and our aim! It is ok if it happens organically and if we really start liking the aim but what if we do not like the aim? 

One might follow certain aims for a variety of reasons! Like for money, for lack of other options, in helplessness, for proximity of the location from home, for friendship, out of respect, because one does not know how to say no... so on and so forth! So there are many reasons for keeping some aims. But it does not mean that after keeping the aim for sometime, everyone will forget their real aim and will continue doing what they were doing! The first opportunity one will get, they will fly away from the boring, non interesting, harmful, damaging, dangerous, illegal, immoral and degrading aims! 

When we have to achieve something, we have to forget the differences and so teacher, student and aim should be one! Students should become one with an aim like Arjuna was not able to see anything else but the eye of the fish, teacher and aim does not remain different so achieving aim is following teacher and in the process the student himself becomes teacher. In this way all 3 become one - aim, teacher and student. But when the aim is not noble, the student should be intelligent enough to separate the boundaries of the teacher, himself and the aim! When a student can do that, he can ask this question - Why should I be part of 'your' revolution?

Asking such questions can be considered as wrong in Indian culture but when teacher is like character of Anupam Kher in Buddha In A Traffic Jam, know that the time has come to ask these questions at least when a student finds the aims shown by the teacher are illogical, immoral, dangerous, degrading etc. 

It is such a beautiful and daring question! The Earliest meaning of word romance was 'daring' I remember Dr. Abhay Bang mentioned in one of his lectures. So in that sense this question is not only beautiful but also romantic - Why should I be part of 'your' revolution?

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai