Patriotism

In Ramayana, after the death of Ravana, Vibhisbana fell at the feet of Rama and said, "Swami, I never aspired to be the King of Lanka. I only wanted my brother to give up his bad qualities. I pray to you to take over the Kingdom of Lanka."

All the demons also came and prayed to Rama that he should become King of Lanka.

Lakshman also supported them saying, "Brother, Bharatha is already ruling over Ayodhya. Even if you return to Ayodhya, you may not be crowned as the King.

So, I request you to take over this kingdom and transform all the rakshasas. Lanka is full of golden mansions. Where else can you find such a beautiful place? I will be very happy if you rule over this Kingdom."

Rama lovingly took Lakshman close to him and said,

"Lakshman, how could you get such a silly desire? Just because one's mother is ugly, can he call any other beautiful woman as his mother? Even though my country is poor compared to Lanka, I still consider it as my mother. Lanka may be full of gold, but I don't want it"!!

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SPIRITUAL COMMENTARY

What a tremendous patriotism Lord Rama had for his own kingdom Ayodhya! He respected and adored his kingdom like his own "mother" as, any country we belong to becomes our "motherland" since we have been nurtured and brought up in that country, like how a mother nurtures her child.

We should develop this kind of love and faith towards our country. Parents and teachers should inculcate such spirit of patriotism in their children and students. We should declare wholeheartedly with a sense of pride that this is my country, this is my mother tongue.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

We should love and serve our homeland; at the same time not hate or hurt the homeland of others. We should not indulge in criticizing other countries or people belonging to other nations. Having trust and faith in our own country, we won't try to put down any other country. We should never bring grief or sorrow to our country. To have pride in our own motherland is important.

There are millions of educated men and women all over the world, but how many really benefit or contribute to the society's progress? We are utilising our education for our own selfishness and self-interest alone.We have to eschew selfishness and self-interest and make our education useful by resolving to serve the society and our country,for its progress and development.That way we should make the best use of our education we have recieved.

Let us respect and revere our elders and our country and set an ideal to humanity.Let our conduct befit the degrees we have acquired.Education is meant to broaden the mind.Education and discrimination should go hand in hand. The prosperity of the nation depends on the progress we make in the field of education.The future of the nation rests on the students and the dynamic youths a nation produces and nurtures.

Every Nation has stocked plenty of wealth for us. What is this wealth? It is the spirit of sacrifice, which can be acquired through service to society. BUET is such a source to produce genius guys.But unfortunately,most of their intention is to survive themselves abroad,not settle in own country. Even our respectable teachers also inspired us to do that.Like my other classmates,i also want to go abroad. But is it right? Our general public taught us free in our university life but can we take any kind of responsibility to others? As a software engineer,we can't take any kind of attempt to build software industry? Finally writing this blog, i urge all my friends to take a look at our country development. Even if u go abroad,rethink of my request.


Reference: http://bhadesia.blogspot.com/2008/06/patriotism.html

tortoise story

Once upon a time a number of tortoises stayed near a narrow canal. They are involved themselves in different types of activities including playing, fighting, hunting etc. Their main purpose is how they can survive their lives avoiding boringness.
One day, they decide to make some plans avoiding boringness. They plan to traverse the great river. So, a tortoise named Andrew made a plan with his friends to go there. When he reached the bank of the river, he watched the river looked like Crimson River. His all mates also want to reach the river. Some of them are about to reach, others make all kind of formalities to traverse it. Some of them are about to start but a huge wave hamper their journey. Unfortunately none can tell what kind of reception they are waiting for.

Can we say??????????????