LEARNING IS LIFE

  National Education Day: Occasion for Review and Course Correction for education System India celebrates National Education Day on November 11 every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first Education Minister (1947–1958). Established in 2008 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the day honors Azad’s foundational work in shaping the nation's academic and scientific infrastructure with education education as a means of social transformation and democratic citizenship. Maulana Azad viewed education as the fundamental pillar of a strong democracy, social justice, and national progress. He firmly believed that a democratic nation cannot survive without educating its masses, advocating strongly for free and compulsory primary education for all children up to the age of fourteen. Azad placed special emphasis on the education of girls, asserting that true societal advancement is impossible without empowering women. Furthermo...

 J krishnamurti on Truth Viewpoint According to noted thinker and author, J. Krishnamurti, truth is a pathless land that cannot be reached through religion, dogma, or the conditioned seeking of the mind. He asserted that truth is not the moral opposite of a lie, but a living state that reveals itself only when thought and the psychological ego fall silent. Conversely, falsehood resides in the illusions, beliefs, and attachments fabricated by human thought to find security. Krishnamurti emphasized that liberation occurs only when we see the false as the false, allowing the unconditioned mind to directly observe "what is" without judgment or external authority. Quotes Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. To discover truth, you must be free of all belief, of all conditioning, of all fear of being insecure. Truth is not something to be accumulated. What is accumulated is always being destroyed; it decays. Truth...

  The Jains celebrate Nirvana Utsava of their 24th Tirthankara Lord Mahavira as Diwali in solemn way.  It was on the day of Diwali that Lord Mahavira left his mortal coil and got liberated from the birth-death cycle of life. Thus, Diwali is observed by the followers of Jainism as the Nirvana or Moksha anniversary of Lord Mahavira on Kartika Amavasya by lighting earthen oil lamps. On Diwali morning, Nirvana Ladoo in all Jain temples to remind that the ultimate aim of of life is conquer mind and attain Moksha.   In Jainism, worldly existence is seen as cycle of rebirths, has a definite beginning and end in Jainism and perfect souls with the body are called Arihant or victors and perfect souls without the body are called   Siddhas or liberated souls. The Jain scripture hold that the liberated pure soul or Siddha who goes up to the summit of universe or Siddhashila to dwell in eternal Bliss as Nirvana state. Also, the Jain New Year commences right after Diwali. ...

  Einstein's Inkling about Immortality and Eternity before His Death E instein stood and looked at the clock, He said the ticking is only a trick. Past and future are clouds in the sky, The present is just where the eyes lie. Everything happens at once in the light, The morning, the noon, and the middle of night. A river of moments that never quite flows, It sits in space-time fabric where everything grows. My body is one leaf among all the rest, Held on a branch at the center of quest. When I wither and fall to the cooling ground, My atoms are still in the circle found. Nothing is lost to the dark or the deep, The laws of the cosmos have secrets to keep. Energy shifts but it never will die, Part of the whole as the ages go by The body fades, its atoms drift and blend, A part of all that has no start or end.

  Short Note Reflect on the cycle of birth, life, and death: each belongs to the same wheel, and birth and death meet at its turning point. We enter the world through a birth borrowed from death, with a debt we must one day repay. We die because death is - we die of death.  Meditate on the instant where birth meets death—the moment of freedom from both life and death. Death is inevitable; all of us will die. Birth and death are movements within an eternal, divine process, while the explanations of the transient mind and material world invent dreams are illusions for longevity and fragile ego of playing God. Understand that death alone can release us from death, and life alone can release us from life. So die to life, or live in readiness for death - live a life of detached witness.  So live from moment and die moment to moment to free life from its false and egoistic hold on life. Freedom from Life and Death: A Poem The wheel spins round in endless turns, From light to da...

  The Bhagavad Gita presents Moksha -liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and suffering  as the ultimate purpose of human life, achieved by transcending ego, attachment, worldly illusion and sensual delusion and cravings of mind  through righteous action, knowledge, or devotion by reflecting on verses BG 2.51, 2.72, 5.28, 8.16, 2.6–12.7, and 18.66. The Gita through these verses explains that true liberation is achieved by mastering the senses and overcoming desire, fear, and anger. Rather than abandoning physical life, individuals must make life minimal and must detach from the fruits of their actions. Ultimately, fixing the mind entirely on the Supreme through absolute surrender and unwavering devotion dissolves all bonds of worldly attachment. Purport We must live to die peacefully and die to live blissfully as spirit for ever . When we live with ultimate purpose, death ceases to be a terrifying end; instead, it becomes a calm, unbound sea leading to eternal peace...