During the summer of 1899, Tirthram set out for hills on pilgrimage to Amarnath cave. He reached Pahalgam, a tired man. He was part of a group. The group decided to rest for a few days before resuming onward journey.But Tirthram was getting impatient to see the Shivalingam. So, he broke away from the group […]
In the same year, Swami Vivekananda paid a visit to Punjab. It pleased Tirthram. In the capacity of the President of Sanatana Dharma Sabha he got the chance to serve Swamiji. He organised several discourses and meetings for Swami Vivekananda. He presented a gold watch to Swamiji at the occasion of his departure from Punjab.An
For several days Tirthram was not going to the university due to a boil he had developed in his leg. He could not stand up and walk. It was extremely painful. A severe fever inflicted him when the boil trouble was over. The regular treatment was on. It took more than three weeks for him
Tirthram Goswami was getting more and more into religion and God as the time went by. His preoccupation with mathematics was being replaced by study of religious scriptures.He would mostly be found reading Gita and Yoga Vashishta. The later book was devotional fancy of his spiritual guru Dhannaram. The mulling over the messages of those
Mr. Gilbertson was an Englishman. Once he fell ill. The treatment didn’t work. He decided to go back to his homeland to see if the familiar climate helped.The principal was worried. He expressed his concern to Gilbert, “If you go back to England the students will suffer. What about their mathematical studies?”Gilbert revealed, “The students
Most of the students dread mathematics. It is very methodical subject and there is no margin of error. A slight mistake or oversight gets one a wrong answer and no marks.Either one is right or wrong with no gray areas.But mathematics was Tirthram’s favourite subjects. He loved it because it proved one’s perfect correctness. Sometimes
One day a friend remarked to Tirthram, “You pride over your knowledge of Urdu and Persian language. Both happen to be alien languages. It is a pity that you did not try to learn Sanskrit, the language of Hindu scriptures inspite of coming from a Brahmin family. I think that you must know Sanskrit.”It pricked
The school education came to an end in due course of time. Now it was time for college. Tirthram took admission in a college of Lahore University. There he lived in a rented room. He continued to write to his guru even from Lahore.On the average he wrote two letters a week. Thus during a
When Tirthram grew up to school going age he was admitted to the primary school of the village. The boy threw no tantrums like other boys and willingly went to the school.He showed no aversion to learning letters. During 19th century the children largely displayed dislike of school and took education as a juvenile punishment.The
The month of August of the year 1947 brought joy to hundreds of millions of people of the subcontinent as it ended a long dark period of slavery to the aliens. But the independence had arrived with a tragedy. Two states of the country namely Bengal and Punjab were each divided in two parts to
In January, 1959 Vinoba reached Ajmer Sharif during the course of his nationwide tour. He made obeisance at Durgah of Sheikh Salim Chisti. He spoke to the congregation—‘The message of Islam is sublime. It does not discriminate between rich and poor. The charging of interest is forbidden. It provides an ideal framework for democracy. I
Vinoba wanted to remove the difference between the exploiter and the exploited. He believed that the two classes emerged because of the general tendency to shirk the labour. He wanted to devalue the importance of money and shift all value to the labour.He experimented. The name of his experiment was ‘Kanchmukti Yoga’. Vinoba wrote—‘The use
The sojjourn at Pavnar brought improvement to the health of Vinoba. But his spirit was in pain. Because to weaken the independence struggle of Indians, the wily British was playing communal card. They were applying divide and rule formula. The communal passions of bigotic Muslim and Hindu fanatics were being raised. The country was being
He had done some contemplation on service in Dhulia jail and felt that India was the land of villages. Without the upliftment of villages the country could not make progress.He believed that the rural population was the living manifestation of Lord Shiva. Serving the rural folks, thus, meant worshiping Shiva. Meanwhile, the government had confiscated
The situation was becoming tense. The rule of British tyranny was digging in. The draconian laws were being imposed on Indians. Gandhiji knew that without confronting British with a fierce opposition Indians could not hope to get any concessions from the rulers. So, he organised Dandi March and broke the Salt Act in defiance. It