- By Anurag Singh & Aujas Sohal
On the esteemed occasion of World
Philosophy Day, two phenomenal and thought provoking lectures were presented by
Prof. Ms. Ranju Mehta ma’am.
Starting with the proceedings, our very own Prof.
Dr. Anthony Sir shared his piece of mind on the very stimulating, Wisom Is
Defined In Feminine Form, and welcomed Prof. Ms. Ranju Mehta ma’am, from everyone
in MUJ. Prof. Mridul Srivastava ma’am presented the bouquet to her, next.
After
this, Prof. Robin Luke sir took the stage, and threw light on World Philosophy
Day, being on 3rd Thursday of November, every year, and went on to glorify the
guest lecturer, with her teaching experience in Jaipur's Kanoria College, being for over 3 decades, and awarded as India Certified
Entrepreneurship Teacher of the Year 2004,
and the
Best Global Enterprising Educator 2012 award by the US-based international
organisation, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. The topics of lecture were unfolded as "Critical
Theory and Philosophy" and "Theory Of Karma".
Following this,
Prof. Mridul Srivastava gave her experience with Philosophy, and her
philosophies about one being who they are, because of theirs. And she went on
to introduce the highly experienced guest lecturer of the day.Prof. Ms. Ranju Mehta claimed to be indebted to Robin Sir, Mridul Ma'am, and Anthony Sir for being invited to celebrate World Philosophy Day with the students and emphasized on having an interactive session.
Ranju ma’am started the
lecture, with a simple notion, that she did not want to bore us with a lecture,
instead she gave us an idea of karma and then asked us a question, ‘How many of
you, when faced with a problem ask yourself why it is happening to you?’ Everyone
was intrigued by this question and immediately many hands went up. Every one
gave varying answers like blaming things on destiny, blaming God for the
suffering or even comparing your life to someone else.
Karma as we all now
understood it was, any voluntary action, where we make an informed choice that
has an effect on someone else’s life or even our own. The example given was a
simple one, breathing polluted air, in this instance we are affected by
someone’s action. We imagined a bank where we store whatever deeds we do good
or bad, what we experience or take out from the bank are the same amount of
good or bad outcomes.
Ma’am then introduced the
topic ‘Doctrine of Rebirth’, she explained that both karma and rebirth were
interlinked to each other. It answered the questions, ‘Why we are born, to
whomever we are born?’ and ‘Why we face problems or how we attain luxuries?’
She then ended the explanation with the line, ‘What we do in this life, paves a
way to our next one?’
The introduction of this
topic ignited a storm of questions in the mind of the audience, each person eager to get an answer. The debate flowed back and forth, arguing about the
immortality of the soul, the effects of karma and many more. Ma’am to answer
are questions collectively then told us about the types of karma, Sanchit
Karma, Prarabdh Karma and Kriyaman Karma, each of them signifying the deeds we
do in the past, present and future respectively. Though she meant to quench
that inferno of questions, she poured oil in them instead. The questions now
varying from person to person, why do the deeds I do in my previous life get
accumulated to this one, why our actions sometimes don’t help us achieve what
we want and even, why we use karma as a kind of solution at all. The discussion
now too interesting, everyone forgot the concept of time we were bound to.
Finally easing our minds
by confirming that the good deeds can eliminate the bad ones we do in our life
and explaining us the concept of the four Purushas. The topic drew to a close,
our minds still hooked on the questions that we would ponder later. It was up
to us and what decisions we made that would affect our future.
President Aparna Singh of
Sophia Club, gave the vote of thanks and encouraged us to keep the tradition of
these enlightening lectures on World Philosophy Day alive.
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