Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to say, “As long as I live, so long do I learn.”
So inspiring. Actually, learning is a lifelong process. From the very childhood
to the old age this process continues in different ways. Many management
experts assert the dictum of better learning for better earning. Rightly so.
The scope of learning is extremely vast. During the days of
school-college-university, the focus mainly remains on syllabus and curriculum,
but that doesn’t limit your natural curiosity to learn innumerable things every
day in an informal manner. These learning inputs are also very important and
necessary for enriching and enjoying life. Yes, the good aspect of learning is
that nobody can take it away from you. To say, learning continuously is good for
staying young and performing.
Enjoying
the process of learning and making it a natural habit in life is really a very
big accomplishment. By following this golden path many people in the world not
only made their incredible development possible, but also earned huge success
and respect in their respective fields of activity. Interestingly, if you have
the interest for learning, you get ample opportunities by even looking around
you. Just take the example of mother nature and her incredible creations. Yes,
there are unlimited opportunities to learn from ants to elephants, from
sparrows to eagles, from small plants to big trees, from rivers to oceans, from
hills to mountains, from the changing seasons to vegetation and from so many
other things. The list is endless. You can learn so much which you can’t
imagine. Yes, you can utilise this learning experience not only to make your
life better, but also the lives of many others, especially the disadvantaged
section of society. It is good to find that many people do this learning and
sharing activity to varying degrees. Anyway, if you leave aside the names of
those persons who are presently very famous around the world and just turn the
pages of history of even past one hundred years to know seriously about only
one percent of those whose names are recorded in golden words, undoubtedly you
would learn amazing things. Obviously, you get extremely motivated to work more
effectively and finally prove yourself perfectly deserving of regular
recognition and rewards. Henry Ford rightly says that anyone who stops learning
is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Several
great persons said that whether it is a person, society or a country, once it
stops the learning process, it starts becoming lifeless and meaningless.
Pessimism and negativity become their friends; the road to progress is blocked;
and deterioration in quality of life sets in fast. George Santayana rightly
says, “For the wisest people, there is always something left for learning.”
Okay, let us try to understand this philosophy through the lives of two Nobel
Prize Winners.
Did
you know that Albert Einstein had a great appetite for learning? He was
extremely curious and mathematics was his favourite subject. Interestingly
however, he was not figuring in the list of meritorious students during his
school days. Einstein faced failures and humiliation too during his student
days, but he continued to move forward on his learning path as he used to say
that once you stop learning, you start dying. And at the age of 30 only, he
propounded the Theory of Relativity. He continued to work in that direction and
was finally honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics when he was 42. It is an
inspiring fact that this great scientist was fond of enjoying music and learnt
to play violin well.
Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur had tremendous passion for learning. Mother nature was his best friend and teacher. He utilised every opportunity to learn new things. Despite having little formal school education, he studied many subjects including Literature, History, Sanskrit, Astronomy and English. His range of imagination and creativity was amazing. His writings were exceptionally qualitative, be it poems, drama, songs, stories, essays and novels. He was equally exceptional in music and art. The musical album known as Rabindra Sangeet is a compilation of more than 2000 of his poems. He was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in 1913. It was conferred on him for his literary work Gitanjali. Finally enjoy his golden words: Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we have the capacity to receive it.
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