Situation of Students in CoViD-19 Chaos.

Greetings!

Today the cry of a student has overtaken the blogger within me, the agony of a student studying under Indian Education System has overtaken my inner self, I can no more hold myself, but talk about this. Thus, here I am, boldly representing the plight of my fellow brothers and sisters, to briefly discuss on some horrendous points of our system which every student of Democratic India is aware of. The humanly, understandable mistakes that our system is doing which is rottening the career of our future leaders, modern influencers and young fellows of Newly Rising India!

Maybe we can all agree on this, 

The Education of that country can never be called 'complete' or 'perfect' whose youth are desperate for employment, crying for jobs. Definately something ain't good with the Education System in which an individual trusts and invests his 15% of whole life just to make it harmonious, secure and impactful. But wait, do you think today's students pursue Education considering these factors? Not at all.

It does not surprise me even a bit to know that a country like India ranks at 139th position out of 149 countries in UN Happiness Index in 2021. Even worse, hashtags like #modi_job_do trends Global Twitter with over 5 million tweets. Students are hella-outraged.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world and brought the world economy to halt, India was already suffering through the highest unemployment of the past 45-years. The pandemic worsened the employment situation in the country, with private organizations laying off employees, daily wage laborers being left with no work, and governments delaying recruitment processes for various departments. Several million have lost their jobs. As a result, as of January 2021, India had only about 400 million employed.

Need I say more? Data speaks for itself.

I simply cannot express my anguish using mere combinations of English Vocabulory. Yes, not only me. In my support stands millions of those miserable lads hopelessly sitting at their homes not having a single clue of what the heck their lives would bring in their upcoming 5 years!

What nuisance we've made of this Education thing!

The moment I sit to study --

There comes loads of unnecessary information which I am expected to mutter like parrots!

The moment I sit to study --

There comes that mountainous syllabus spread wildly all over the place which I know is useless, which I know will only run riots in my mind, not valuing me even a dime. The syllabus, stored in our brains only to rust off in future!

Study, Study, Study,

Consume all the information of the book as Lord Shiva consumed that poison. Only we are consuming to throw it off like garbage, vommitting the data over the exam papers!

Phew!

Cleared off the exams.

Where's my placement? Silicon Valley? No?

Where?

Whats the use of all that information if there's no mind to hold it, grope it? Whats the use of all that economics classes and commerce lectures if there's no inner soul vigorous enough to shine!

Ay.. Whats the use of all the book learning if only its destined to be thrown off like trash over answer sheets?

Why Education - That is mere information giving.

Isn't it supposed to be character building? 

Was this the ultimate destiny of Modern India which Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam dreamt of?

Is this the end of this marvellous civilization in which Propagators of Truth and Hope have kept rising from remotest of areas time to time?

Oh my dear friends,

How can a Modern National Giant rise in this country if there's no Character Building Education? How can a  mighty river flow in a dead desert? In the past, very few personalities have rose just because their flow was such, that it was capable enough to turn a desert too into a river basin! What future for others?

The only business of Educational Institutions currently is just to take the exams of the students. No matter how you do it in this deadly situation! They just want to get rid of this responsibility of them to provide their students Education. Are they doing it properly? Hahahahahahahaha!

What can we do then?

We've already concluded that atleast something is not good in our system. A tiny little problem, hindering millions of lives. Whats that? Education.

For most of the people the Coronal Era have been not much productive. Honestly its utterly opposite for me. Last year has turned out to be an eye opener for me. I read quite a lot of books on Indian Spirituality, Vedanta Philosophy and Ancient Indian Education System. What can I say!

It brings tears to my eyes seeing this blessed country whose youth are clueless, visionless, unaware of their grand past. Anyways, I am not here to argue about that.

My clarity suggests me that from this global epidemic, we get to know that it is us who want to rise, thus, it must be us constantly striving to learn more and more. How haphazardly the last year went..Cannot we think that at the end none cares to educate our own selves. It is us and us only who self learn. How long can this go? Will you keep waiting? Will you keep sitting idle? No. Thus,

"Yearn to Learn. Seek to see. "

Use the internet, know your field better. Go to the depths of the concerns that hinders you. It may be a bold statement but yes I think that I can learn and get educated MORE from YouTube and Google rather than schooling for years straight. Yes, that has its own limitations but one thing is to be made damn clear;

Only and only we are the makers of our destiny.

Let there be thousand more pandemics, thousand more miseries. Is there anything to stop you from growing? Millions of our Indian Students got almost negligible Education last year. Will you keep waiting?

They want us to fill the exams. No problem. They'll soon realise the horror of this consequence. What's in our hands? No classes, No Exams, No Lectures. There's nothing to drag you to perfection. It was never the external world who taught you lessons, it was always your MIND studying its OWN self observating the suggestions of this universe. Can a teacher really teach you anything? It was always your own mind realising its inner boundaries. Was Gravity waiting for Newton to discover? Nay. His mind was such that it linked a single phenomenon of apple falling to such a scientific level. In the midst of Plague Outbreak in his times, he did not go to Cambridge for nearly 2 years still discovered the Laws of Motion and many other theories just sitting at his home!

Whats your take-away? 

I would say my life has revolutionised researching a Bengali Man, A Character of Infinite Strength, A Soul in constant communion with the Infinite - Swami Vivekananda. His discourses, lectures and even his whole life, has successfully inspired me to dedicate my whole life improving our motherland. I will not say anything about him further, as I will only underestimate his work.

My beloved readers,

Glad you read till now. Just take a step. Just take a plunge into our infinitely knowledgeable past and its philosophies. Start off maybe with a book of Swamiji, just a single book. Its okay if not that, atleast have a constant, steady pace of growth. Truth-Knowledge-Impact : This is all it takes.

From the very core of my heart I pray for you being able to understand our Ancient Culture - The Soul, The Individuality of this nation which believes in Universal Acceptance and Universal Tolerance. The Past of the nation that has welcomed innumerable communities of innumerable sects that has currently ruined its unity due to political agendas. Advance, Advance. Onwards, Onwards. Higher and Higher. Lets Go.

 Truth can never come to us as long as we are selfish. We colour everything with our own selves. Things come to us as they are. Not that they are hidden, not at all! We hide them. We have the brush. A thing comes, and we do not like it, and we brush a little and then look at it. ... We do not want to know. We paint everything with ourselves. In all action the motive power is selfishness. Everything is hidden by ourselves. We are like the caterpillar, which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught. By his own work he imprisons himself. That is what we are doing. The moment I say "me", the thread makes a turn. "I and mine" - another turn. So it goes.

 If you set to work in right earnest, then you are sure to be successful. Whoever works at a thing heart and soul not only achieves success in it, but through his absorption in that he also realises the Supreme Truth. Whoever works at a thing with his whole heart receives help from God. 

                             - Swami Vivekananda 

Let us accompany each other in this journey which awaits change, improvement, development. Let us be the face of our country, the land of mighty warriors as well as superconscious saints!

Daksh Parekh.