Study session on Demand at BMV

Main gate of Bharatiya Mahila Vidyalaya, where the study camp was conducted.




All Tenth and Ninth standard girls gathered in one hall to listen to the study workshop done on 17th December 2005.

Self Importance and work levels

This is similar to what I drew on the black board of the class room when I started the session. I was there to conduct a motivation workshop in front of 10th Standard Girls. They were around 120 girls sitting in front of me with question marks in their eyes. Curiosity and eagerness was the only emotion I could gather from their faces. They were not sure about what this man is going to deliver.

I started with this diagram and asked them to imagine their existence against the Family, City, District, State, Nation, World, and Galaxy and eventually told them to notice the diminishing importance of their existence. How small we appear in front of Galaxy or the group of Galaxies. We remain mere a dot. Even a dot may appear big as compared to our existence verses the huge proportion of Galaxies. We are nothing.

I must help myself
There is no one bothered if any thing happened to me, once I start going outside of this affinity circle. My importance goes on diminishing as I travel away from myself. So it is me who has something to do with my life and not anybody else. If I passed the examination it is me who will be benefited, my family will be benefited. If I failed the examination very less people are out there to bother about my failure. They will just comment and pass by. I must become important enough for me so I can make myself strong, determined to study and successful.


Work Levels

I presented them with the concept of work levels. See we can work only with what we have with us. At the lowest work level where there is no education we have only our body with us. Thus we have to work with our body; means physical work. And the fact is when we work hard with our body we still get less returns. Then imagine this level as the laborer working on a construction site. They get less with lots of physical hard work.

Now look towards the contractor. They are slightly more literate than the laborers. They instruct the laborers how to work and just supervise the work still get more returns than the laborers. My question is these two categories not human beings. Yes, both of these categories are human beings so why this difference in the treatment? The answer is on higher levels people have more education and they are capable to take more responsibilities. As we develop skills to study more and acquire more education we can get positions of more responsibility and status. Here we can clearly see that education is the key factor for this difference.

Now moving further we come across the Architect who makes the plans and drawings, get the sanction from government bodies and supervises the whole work and gets much more in return than the contractor. Again we can see the difference in education resulting in ability of taking more responsibility and hence opportunity to get more in return.

We have some options in front of us now. Either not to study, drop out from the school and do the physical jobs, or study, get education and get a job with more responsibility and more returns. To start with the lower level of work is not bad but to remain there for the whole life is bad. It is foolish to remain on the same level.

We must acquire as much education as we can in our study period and we can arise high on the work levels.

regards

Tushar Joshi, Nagpur

Our Girls Don’t Study

Call from Bharatiya Mahila Vidyalaya
I received a call from one retired teacher of Bharatiya Mahila Vidyalaya. She happen to attend one of my workshops in Vivekananda Kendra about motivation. She requested me to conduct one workshop for her students in Bharatiya Mahila Vidyalaya. When I asked what message they want to pass on to the students, she described the girls as weak in studies. We want then to study hard and give us results, she said.

Situation of students
I came to know after discussion with the principal that the students are from poor families. Most of the parents are workers and lower middle class people who have to rush for work early in the morning and have no time to ask children to study or monitor their studies. There is no atmosphere for them to study.

Efforts and feelings of Teachers
She said with empathy for her students that they try hard to make all the girls study and pass the matriculation board exam. But they doubt about what the girls will do once they leave the school premises.

Challenge for me
Now they asked me to do something. Tell something in such a way to the girls that they feel like study.

This was the background for my workshop in Bharatiya Mahila Vidyalaya, on Saturday 3rd December 2005

Regards

Tushar, Nagpur

Arise Awake

Arise Awake!
Stop not till the Goal is Reached.

In the words of Swamy Vivekananda, if we serve as if we are serving god we grow, we excel, we reach our extreme state. Actually when we work for others unconditionally we become strong, confident and peaceful.

regards

Tushar Joshi, Nagpur