In the third year of my graduation at BITS, Once Varun, Mayur and I had an appointment with sir to discuss few issues with him. Being a bit late that day for the meeting we rushed into his chamber with tensed mindsets. After greeting sir, I have opened my dairy and was about to put the first point in the agenda for discussion. All of a sudden, sir asked Mayur how many shirts he has. We were surprised to hear such question in that context. All of us were in a dilemma. Slowly Mayur said he has eleven shirts. Then sir asked can you live with nine shirts. Mayur answered him yes.
Then sir asked puzzled Mayur why he shouldn’t donate those two shirts to his fellow beings who cannot afford them. He added that our Indian culture is a conservative culture where people lead a simple life, satisfy their needs with the minimum number of resources and then try to assist their fellow being with the additional resource they have. This reaps two benefits to the man kind. One is that we can ensure that we do not waste our country’s resources and the other one, we can try bringing up our community which is in need.
He explained it by saying that it is always better to save the scarce resources by minimizing the usage than to create additional resources with huge efforts and higher costs. He supported his statement to help the community saying that unless the suffering community is brought up, as a nation we cannot progress and hence it’s our duty to help our fellow beings with the saved extra resources we have. Quickly he reminded about our agenda and started discussing our points one by one. This way, with a simple example he taught us a great moral that’s imbibed in our Indian culture which we all have to realize. Each time, we met him, we used to learn something that’s great (which I shall document all of them on my blog one by one so that his messages can be reached and benefited by a greater audience) which cannot be learnt from our regular courses and course text books.
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Definitely an interesting topic and something which even I cherish for a long time to come. Every meeting with LKM Sir was something to be recorded in mind, pondered about and absorb the meaning and practice them. Only a careful listener can 'catch' how great values and thoughts were embedded in his simple words.
I remember this incident happening to you people, and even in some later meets he stressed upon this theme of "Living with the 'needs' of life and not the 'wants' of life".
Truely a difficult one to practice until we actually realise its importance in this fast moving world of having more and more and more of material posessions..
One thought which might help in realising it.. "We come to this world empty-handed and leave empty handed"... Ponder on it.....
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