Teacher’s Day

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

There was Guru Purnina  or Teacher’s Day yesterday on 4^th of Shrawan 2073BS (19^th July 2016). We worship teacher like god because teacher would provide knowledge to us. Knowledge is the light of life that that is possible only from Guru. So Guru and knowledge are integral factor according to Hindu belief. So the respect to Guru is the respect of knowledge which brings positive change in our life. Guru has guided children into their future implanting the seeds of knowledge. Hence they would be able to uncover the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge.

We can’t get knowledge without the help of guru so s/he is the prime element of education. Guru helps to open the eyes of an innocent child so that s/he could be guided into the future life of them. If there is no Guru, we will remain ignorant throughout our life. In this way, Guru has played important role in the life of innocent child or disciple. So the importance of Guru has been growing day by day.

The day of Guru Purnima is not limited only with worshipping; it has broader meaning that has connection with knowledge or education. When we worship Guru we have worshipped our knowledge which is only the motto of our life. Thus, Guru is one of the symbols of the knowledge rather than the knowledge itself.  In this way, Guru helps to pave the way from ignorance to knowledge. Or s/he is the initiator of the knowledge of students. So students should have known that they have worshipped their own knowledge not any person.

We should worship the knowledge because it is the best thing in our life. We have been spent our life knowing various things which is unstoppable. The things what we want to get with all sorts of effort should be praised and worshipped. If we can’t worship the thing what we have got that is useless in our life. Hence, worshipping knowledge means worshipping the dignity of ours which helps to drive us ahead in our life.

Mainly the students have celebrated Guru Purnima by putting tika to their Guru showing hearty respect. They can worship guru with the things what they have. It is believed that we should make our Guru happy on this day so that the Guru would help us throughout the year. Or he would be inspired to teach us the positive things in our life. The students would feed their teacher with delicious food and they have even provided presents to their Guru.

We all are students and we have to worship our Guru. Nowadays, we should think that there is no such person who is regarded as Guru as the mythological definition. According to mythological definition, Guru is the person who has known everything. It was good at that time because Guru could know some books and s/he could teach their students getting mastery over that. Guru can be taken as different person these days due to the broader aspect of education. Only one person can’t know all subjects so the traditional definition can’t address it; rather it is area specific.

These days knowledge is divided into various fields and experts are also divided accordingly. So we should understand it in relative sense that Guru is such person who is expert in his/her subject matter. Along with deconstruction, the idea of Guru has been changed. These days we can get experts area wise rather than the traditional concept of Mr-Know-All.

Finally I can say that Guru Purnima is the remarkable day for the persons who are the devotees of knowledge. The devotion what we have got should be transferred into our life so that we can go ahead. Celebrating Guru Purnima doesn’t mean worshipping a particular person rather it is the worshipping of our own knowledge.