From: dama@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (bipin.d.dama)
Subject: Re: Quitting Gradschool
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:33:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.145650.20194@menudo.uh.edu> mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.041456.22561@menudo.uh.edu>, mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh) writes:
>>Good bye friends.
>>The time has come when this pretense of Grad school is meaningless
>>Hence I am quitting and you will not hear from me again till I
>>know the truth

>>Bye and love
>>Arindam
>
>This is not renouncing the world but a change of vocation: Only activities
>I can do now is to teach the children and study and make commentaries on
>the various scriptures of the religions from my own knowledge. I have to
>learn Arabic and Sanskrit first for that. You see there's a lot of work in

>Stay here : Teach people who are illeterate or down-trodden and in the
>process do something greater from which all of the world may benifit.
>

Arindam:

First of all, I do not know you, but I read lot of your articles and
from that I deduced that you have good quest for knowledge and you 
try to find real / root meaning / reason behind this world. You seemed
to have tried to find reason behind more basic questions of life 
"why this life ?."

Whatever you want to do is fine, but I have a suggestion as to how to
go about it. If you stay in school, you will have access to lot
of literature through library and intra-library loan system of 
your school. You can start by learning more about sanskrit and
arabic. At the same time start a free coaching class either through
your school's lecture series program or may be in the comman room
of your housing. There ARE lot of people here who are
interested in learning more and everybody will benifit, including
yourself by discussing with these people who attend your free classes.
You will agree that you have lot of learning to do before u really 
start meaningful coaching on full time basis.

You said that you are really not going to renounce this world, that
means that you understand that to get something in this world you have
to give something. Now till you really become master in sanskrit 
and arabic and really know more about various relegious scriptures
you need to stick around in school and use its facilities. In return
you have to do the research/ work on your graduate studies.

In addition you will find that to implement some of your plans you need
money. For your survival / research / for supporting others who want
to do the same. If u have a graduate degree and u r capable of getting a
good job, which means good money, then u can use that money towards 
the cause. If you want to implement your plans on limited resources and/or
on borrowed money from others then most likely you have to do what a 
lender think is right, which might not always agree with your desires.

Just thoughts, afterall it is your life, do  whatever you want to
do with it. But as you said u are not renouncing it but instead
you are going to live in this practicle world and do what u want to
do then you have to think of practicle ways of going towards your
goal.

take care and good lucks,

if you want to talk to me, send me mail or call me.

-bipin d. dama
 dama@alux2.att.com
 (H) 215-740-9677
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