Teacher's Day.

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"When we think we know, we cease to learn." this idiom is said by a 16 times Nobel Prize nominee for literature, and 11 times Nobel Prize nominee for peace, along with being awarded Bharat Ratna, and a knighthood, holding the title of ex-president, and the first Vice-President of India, Dr. Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli. The westerners awarded Dr. Sarvepalli, because he criticized their philosophy, and did so with so much artistry and proficiency that he was one of the first person viewed from the East, as an authority on the Western philosophy.

Though he studied in an evangelical Convent, he was a Hindu to his core. And it was his core beilefs that made him question and subsequently answer the profound questions raised by the Hindu theology, undertaken by him. He could easily breakdown any form of a critique on Hindu, which was a spectacle in his time. He reverted the western thinking, that Hinduism was superstitious and narcissistic, by showing them that their own philosophy was so drenched in their narrow thinking, that they could not view the world from a multi-perspective lens, which was necessary to understand Hinduism, and hence was misdirected.

His lectures were given in the similar vien, explaining the depths and complexities of decoding Hindu in such a lucid manner that the classrooms in which he taught were filled wall to wall with avid listeners, who were always kept yearning for more. Students would overcrowd his lecture hall, sat on the floor, just to listen to him. He really awakened the brahmacharya in each student, that listened to him. Students of all streams and subjects used to listen to his lectures, such was his command over his words and topics, which he would use so eloquently.

It is of great pride for us, to have been born on the same soil as this great soul, and further opportune to celebrate his birthday, as the Teacher's Day. 

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