Gurubhyo namah!

Lots of people have touched my life without whom I wouldn't be in exactly in the same position as now I am in this society. I call all of them as gurus because they have taught me how to have a living.

To start with as one of the Sanskrit sloka says "Maathrubyo namah, Pitrubhyo namah, Archaryebhyo namah", parents are the first gurus who have taught us how to behave and respect others. Some qualities come from genes and some are cultivated in us when we are young which of-course don't remember now.

The third and most important of all the "gurus" is the acharya, or the teacher. A teacher is a person who comes in many forms. Most of us having not studied in "gurukul" system of study we never have opportunity to see the guru-shishya(teacher-student) relationship. Having studied in convents where medium of instructions were in English no wonder we even ever heard of gurukul way of earning knowledge.

But, in-spite of saying the above I have seen few teachers in my schooling days who really inspire students to get motivated to do things on their own. I would like to dedicate this post to all those Archaryas.

First of all I would like to credit my primary school teacher, Mrs. Mythili, who taught me basics of math without which I wouldn't be good at quantitative aptitude and not even close to studying computer science.

Secondly, I am grateful to my language teachers(English and Kannada) at high school who developed my interest in books and literature without which my grammar would be so bad that you couldn't have even made out what I have written in this post. (First of all I would have not dared to write any :P)

Thirdly, the credit goes to lots of books which provided me knowledge, taught me different words and there usage increasing my vocabulary day-by-day.

Fourth, My favorite lecturers of all time... Awesome foursome.. Mr. Gururaj sir, Mr. Divakar Bhat, Mr. M N Laxman, Mr. Sheshachalam (Who took majors PCMB, in order) Who made me burn the night oil and churn out my best in the entrance exams for Engineering without which I wouldn't have secured ranking of 176 in Karnataka, Common entrance test.

I appreciate the friendly lecturers at graduation who exactly knew our brilliant capability to perform in tests and allowed us to be free during class hours.. helping us to prepare for CAT, GATE and other entrance exams for Masters. One of whom I remember the most is Mrs. Padmashri madam, who stressed the importance of practical learning and application than theoretical study for the sake of exams.

I would like to remember external guide at HP internship, Mr. Shyam, for providing me with a fair project for university and an insight to the industry.

But the learning doesn't stop after coming out of University courses! We are all "learners for life". Coming to the industry self-learning and sharing of knowledge was the need. Interacting with the senior most guys and getting to know what exactly we are in need of is been really challenging till-date because information is so cluttered among lots of people I find but no proper way it is put to communicate to a "new fish"! Knowledge is the motive to survive too in this industry for quite a long time till you get out-dated or technology is super upgraded! I thank all my colleagues and team leads for sharing valuable information and making my work easier, faster and me smarter ;)

I have great regards to my flute teacher for whatever minute drop of knowledge that I have in the ocean of Swaras!

Of-late I got to know a lot of things about my bullet due to my mechanic, Mr. Nandan, a skilled worker and well educated about the classic machine who even showed me machine drawings of fork suspension and explained why diesel engines are not good in bikes for the Madras IITian, who visited the workshop when I was getting my bike serviced. I am amazed at his dedication!

There are always other kinds of gurus whom you don't recognize as you take them for granted when it comes to learning from them. They are called "friends" :)
I wouldn't like to mention names here as it wouldn't be possible to mention them all in the post. But each of the wonderful kinship have a nice story behind them. It is like you explore yourself being in the company of others who think exactly alike as you do! Not surprising many of us have friends more of our age-group and that makes us feel secure and share our deepest feelings and inner thoughts which we wouldn't even share with some of our family members. We try to find qualities like trust, affection being close to someone as we always seek out for that someone who gives some nice company to fight against boredom, protection like elder brother, the care of a mother, being as respectable as a father, as kiddish as always torturing younger sibling (though we enjoy it within).

There are lots to learn even from you partner in a relationship about love, commitment and also from your kids who will have more IQ than what you had at their age!!!

Thanks for all those who have influenced my life in a positive way and I wish to see lot more gurus in life.
The fear(of vastness to learn), vinaya(Not being boastful) and bhakti(respect for guru's knowledge) are the most desirable qualities of a student no matter what he learns from his teacher.
Let me get back to learning! ;)
Adios!