Spiritual Biopsy Of Rohith Vemula's Suicide Note
This is not the time to pass judgment on what drove Hyderabad Central University research cholar Rohith Vemula to end his life. The circumstances that preceded his suicide are shrouded in too many complexities that characterise Indian society. But a prejudice-free inquest of nis suicide note does reveal that apart rom everything else, he was also going through deep inner conflicts and agony. Sentences like "it was always with myself I had problems", "I feel a growing gap between my soul and my Dody", "Iloved people without knowing that people have long since divorced rom nature", and "never was a man rated as a mind. Asaglorious thing made up of star dust", clearly indicate hat he was contemplating deeply and sing his dream. Even Rama of Ajodhya went through it. The only difference is that he found his guidance from Maharshi Vashishta in the form of Yoga Vashishta. The tragedy of Rohith's story is that the current system of education in India doesn't teach our youth the wisdom of handlingthe ups and downs of life. That skill is what Indian spirituality is all about. Spirituality is the skill to recognise and handle the conflicts and agony that one faces in life, and to liberate oneself from inner torment. "Spirituality helps one deal with negative tendencies. Without it, the ability to reason is lost and respect for life is also lost as a result. Developing inner strength is the only way to prevent this," says Art of Living It could have helped Rohith overcome the feeling of discrimination owing to his dalit identity Spirituality would have taken him beyond the limited identity of his caste and make him shine in the light within, instead of seeing his birth as a fatal accident and curse. Spiritual practices like meditation could have helped him erase memories of his discriminated past and his childhood isolation. It would have quenched his thirst of knowing about the other worlds and travelling to the stars. His confusion about understanding the world, love, pain, life and death, the feeling of being always in a rush, being empty and being careless about himself are exactly the states that Maharshi Patanjali dealt tragedy that when people from caroche globe come flocking here for suchknowledge, we allow our youth to sucumb to frustration, depression, burout and stress. In the guise of being secular we are denying youth the optunity to tap into indigenous knowlereplete with time-tested wisdom to falife's realities and deal with them wicare, compassion and courage. Spirituality needs to be part of coeducation system. The ideology to which Rohith belonged is against an such attempt as it is equated with saffronisation. I wish their quest forjustice is accompanied by an open mind to see spirituality beyond the boundaries of a religion. If Rohith had seen spirituality asscience that deals with the mechanic of consciousness and their relation with pleasure or pain, he might have
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Courtesy: M Rajaque Rahman and Speaking Tree and Times of India
Spiritual Biopsy Of Rohith Vemula's Suicide Note
This is not the time to pass judgment on what drove Hyderabad Central University research cholar Rohith Vemula to end his life. The circumstances that preceded his suicide are shrouded in too many complexities that characterise Indian society. But a prejudice-free inquest of nis suicide note does reveal that apart rom everything else, he was also going through deep inner conflicts and agony. Sentences like "it was always with myself I had problems", "I feel a growing gap between my soul and my Dody", "Iloved people without knowing that people have long since divorced rom nature", and "never was a man rated as a mind. Asaglorious thing made up of star dust", clearly indicate hat he was contemplating deeply and sing his dream. Even Rama of Ajodhya went through it. The only difference is that he found his guidance from Maharshi Vashishta in the form of Yoga Vashishta. The tragedy of Rohith's story is that the current system of education in India doesn't teach our youth the wisdom of handlingthe ups and downs of life. That skill is what Indian spirituality is all about. Spirituality is the skill to recognise and handle the conflicts and agony that one faces in life, and to liberate oneself from inner torment. "Spirituality helps one deal with negative tendencies. Without it, the ability to reason is lost and respect for life is also lost as a result. Developing inner strength is the only way to prevent this," says Art of Living It could have helped Rohith overcome the feeling of discrimination owing to his dalit identity Spirituality would have taken him beyond the limited identity of his caste and make him shine in the light within, instead of seeing his birth as a fatal accident and curse. Spiritual practices like meditation could have helped him erase memories of his discriminated past and his childhood isolation. It would have quenched his thirst of knowing about the other worlds and travelling to the stars. His confusion about understanding the world, love, pain, life and death, the feeling of being always in a rush, being empty and being careless about himself are exactly the states that Maharshi Patanjali dealt tragedy that when people from caroche globe come flocking here for suchknowledge, we allow our youth to sucumb to frustration, depression, burout and stress. In the guise of being secular we are denying youth the optunity to tap into indigenous knowlereplete with time-tested wisdom to falife's realities and deal with them wicare, compassion and courage. Spirituality needs to be part of coeducation system. The ideology to which Rohith belonged is against an such attempt as it is equated with saffronisation. I wish their quest forjustice is accompanied by an open mind to see spirituality beyond the boundaries of a religion. If Rohith had seen spirituality asscience that deals with the mechanic of consciousness and their relation with pleasure or pain, he might have
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are M Rajaque Rahman views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: M Rajaque Rahman and Speaking Tree and Times of India