<p>The season of mangoes, the season of oranges and the season of suicides! People react momentarily to these sad incidents , console the bereaved parents and then forget about it. Nobody tries to go to the roots of the problem -- neither the teachers nor the parents. The problem is too overwhelming for them perhaps.<br /><br />In the last week there were a dozen suicides by teenagers in Mumbai alone, within a week. And this is going to grow as the exams draw closer. <br /><br />It is like an epidemic of suicide.<br /><br />This year some people blame it on the latest film : 3 Idiots because a student in the film hangs himself in the fear of failure. But I think, it is just an excuse. No film is powerful enough to influence anybody to end their life, unless they have a suicidal tendency. Maybe there was an undercurrent of this thought in the unconscious of these young people.Their inherent depression got supported by the incident depicted in this film.<br />What is driving these youngsters to their death?<br /><br />Osho was an educationist and he has spoken at length on the pitfalls of the current system and has suggested ways of changing it radically. <br /><br />Osho says: '' The very word education, in its roots, means to draw out. Whatever is within you as a seed has to be drawn out, given full opportunity, so that it can blossom. But no one knows what is hidden within you, what kind of soil you need."<br /><br /> Parents decide about their children according to their own ambitions. Somebody wanted to be very rich and could not be: he is hoping through his children that his ambitions should be fulfilled. Naturally he would not like his children to move in directions where possibilities of becoming rich are scarce. <br /><br />As a musician you cannot earn much , so the parents who have been interested in money would like to send their children into a certain pattern of education which brings them the right qualification to be rich. <br /><br />But the potential of the small child about whom it is being decided, has not even been taken into consideration. Children are forced into a direction where greed for money is an essential to be successful. <br /><br />Even if he succeeds, he will be a failure, because he will be unhappy trhoughout his life.Unless a person flowers from within, actualizes his hidden potential, he cannot be happy in life. <br /><br />A gardener knows this secret much better than the parents. I wish the parents take some tips from gardeners.</p>
<p>The season of mangoes, the season of oranges and the season of suicides! People react momentarily to these sad incidents , console the bereaved parents and then forget about it. Nobody tries to go to the roots of the problem -- neither the teachers nor the parents. The problem is too overwhelming for them perhaps.<br /><br />In the last week there were a dozen suicides by teenagers in Mumbai alone, within a week. And this is going to grow as the exams draw closer. <br /><br />It is like an epidemic of suicide.<br /><br />This year some people blame it on the latest film : 3 Idiots because a student in the film hangs himself in the fear of failure. But I think, it is just an excuse. No film is powerful enough to influence anybody to end their life, unless they have a suicidal tendency. Maybe there was an undercurrent of this thought in the unconscious of these young people.Their inherent depression got supported by the incident depicted in this film.<br />What is driving these youngsters to their death?<br /><br />Osho was an educationist and he has spoken at length on the pitfalls of the current system and has suggested ways of changing it radically. <br /><br />Osho says: '' The very word education, in its roots, means to draw out. Whatever is within you as a seed has to be drawn out, given full opportunity, so that it can blossom. But no one knows what is hidden within you, what kind of soil you need."<br /><br /> Parents decide about their children according to their own ambitions. Somebody wanted to be very rich and could not be: he is hoping through his children that his ambitions should be fulfilled. Naturally he would not like his children to move in directions where possibilities of becoming rich are scarce. <br /><br />As a musician you cannot earn much , so the parents who have been interested in money would like to send their children into a certain pattern of education which brings them the right qualification to be rich. <br /><br />But the potential of the small child about whom it is being decided, has not even been taken into consideration. Children are forced into a direction where greed for money is an essential to be successful. <br /><br />Even if he succeeds, he will be a failure, because he will be unhappy trhoughout his life.Unless a person flowers from within, actualizes his hidden potential, he cannot be happy in life. <br /><br />A gardener knows this secret much better than the parents. I wish the parents take some tips from gardeners.</p>
