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Friday, June 03, 2005

Satyameva Jayathe......the power of truth

I write this today, as i have no work at work...now thats what i call an irony..but today , something bit me...the writing bug i beleive..i just feel like posting blogs and posting blogs.....
anyways..coming to the topic, the previous post about S, brought back lots of memories from college...and this is one such memory:

Way back in third semester, when life was tough.... we had a maths assignment to submit.Just the day before, my relatives had come all the way from hyderabad.I had a computer class to attend and was feeling bad that i couldn't spend time with them. So as soon as i came back from the computer class , i spent the entire evening with them...i had a nice time actually...

The next day morning when i was packing my bag for college, i realised that i hadn't finished the maths assignment..Oh my God!But ofcourse, I can lie..as always..i can say that i had finished, lost it in the train....the entire trip to college i was contemplating as to what lie i can use to my defence....worse still i had to pay my exam fees that day..so i had to go to bank after all this and what did i see there? A huge queue....really huge queue.....and there i saw S.She was there..together we paid our fees..she waited for me to pay and gave me her assignment to copy from..we bunked first two hours in the morning and the third hour would be maths..i still hadn't completed my assignment...

i was entering class , still working on my lie..i asked S,
"what would be the right lie that will pull me through?"

she looked at me and said,"G, dont lie..that wont do you any good...you do not know the power of truth. Tell him the truth..the truth will save you always....if not now ,later you will be glad that you spoke the truth........"
and thus convinced i walked upto my maths prof and told that i hadnt finished the assignment and i requested from him additional half-an-hour time by when i would finish it and hand it over to him.... as soon as i had spoken , i feared the worst....
but guess what happened? the prof asked the class rep to wait till i was done and then collect it from me....and as a bonus i had so many other assignment copies to finish it from.....

and so S taught me the power of truth ...not that i have completely stopped speaking lies.....no way....... these days i follow the principle:

"satyam vadathu, priyam vadathu
na vadathu satyam appriyam"

which simply means
"Speak the truth, Speak sweet words
But do not speak such truth that is not sweet( as in, it can hurt others)"

translation tried by me..so could be bad.....this verse was in my 12th standard sanskrit book..i simply love it!!!!!

6 comments:

ioiio said...

Well.. I take bac the words I posted in the previous post.. S(AnLySh)and G actually suits K3G more than WG3.. But I never knew u write poems.. Good job keep it up..

Also Divya Surendran too makes sense now..since u guyz got into the same company if I remember things right..

ioiio said...

aaanaalum namma ooru pasanga saturday sunday damaaalnu silent aayidaraaanga.. Ocla internet kedaicha veluthu katraaana..

U r no exception

monu said...

hey, nice to know you finally figured out.by the way, gayathri.N(popularly known as wt gaya3) is currently in germany, on company project...yes and divya is in my team..right here in a cubicle in my bay .....so thats a good point too....yep..and phone line is very bad..so net at home very slow and the tele bill too..so makes sense to blog at office.... :)

i came to your blog from the link you sent to yahoo group....

nice blog you have there

Baejaar said...

Assignments, classreps and fear of professors!!!!

It must have been a really strict college. I had always assumed (partly from my experiences too) that colleges arent that strict.

monu said...

@baejaar
nopes, it wasnt strict but we had this concept of internal assessment, 20 solid marks to be got and make sure you pass...so thats where the assignments fit in...
:-)
it was a nice place!

Known Stranger said...

it really works. i know and it helped me though it gave embarssment but never let it take over. your S is nice friend of yours. your train journey reminds me of my college days- okie i was nto a chennai college srm but down the south - the train expereince of going to school is the best of my life.. four years up and down one hour journy in a passenger train - believe me slow passenger train. amazing..,.. love it.. would love to do it again when i go back