5 Vedic Qualities A Student Must Possess

Student life is the golden time of opportunities. As a student you should not let it go on spending non-useful activities. We should try to learn and instill more and more. To learn and instill any kind of activities, we have to be productive.

 

Today, we will discuss about the 5 qualities which a student must inculcate to be productive.

 

These 5 qualities are inscribed in Sanskrit Verse.

 

The verse is

 

“KAKA CHESHTA BAKO DHANYAM

SWANA NIDRA TATHAIWA CHA

ALPAHARI, GRIHATYAGI,

VIDYARTHI PANCHA LAKSHNAM.”

 

काक चेष्टा, बको ध्यानं, स्वान निद्रा तथैव च
स्वल्पहारी, गृहत्यागी विद्यार्थी पंच लक्षणं।

 

Let’s decipher the meaning this verse.

 

KAKA CHESHTA: KAKA means ‘Crow’ and CHESHTA means ‘Effort’. Thus, KAKA CHESHTA means ‘Effort of Crow’.

I believe, you have heard of the story of Thirsty Crow. If you didn’t, I will tell you in gist.

An extremely thirsty crow was flying and searching for water. It saw a pitcher of water in a garden. The crow landed on the rim of the pitcher and found, there was water. The water was at very bottom of the pitcher. There was no way to reach to the water. After thinking for some time, he got a great idea. He saw some pebbles in the garden and put the pebbles in pitcher by his beak. Pebbles, pebbles by pebbles were put into the pitcher. After laborious efforts, the water level rose enough where he could drink water. He drunk the water and flew away.

 

This story depicts the patience, the planning, the tremendous efforts crow. These three qualities a student must possess. A student should to have patience in every situation. He/She should plan its effort smartly.  Then, they must execute their effort seamlessly till they achieve their desire results.

 

BAKO DHYANAM: BAKO means ‘Crane’ and DHYANAM means ‘Meditation or Focus’. In whole it means ‘The Intense Focus like a Crane’.

 

Have you ever seen a Crane while hunting for its fish near edge of pond or any water resources?

The crane focus is intense. He has great patience and stillness till it catch a fish. His focus is on playing fish inside water not on flowing water.

 

Student must set his bull’s eye. To achieve success or accomplish a task, a student must possess patience as well as an intense focus. Like the crane, you have to focus on fish, not on running water. Similar in life, to sustain focus, you should allow the disturbing thing to pass by. As a student, you must have some interpersonal issues, distraction like mobile games, relationship issues, discouragements and failures. You should let it go. And focus on the bull’s eye where to want to get yourself. So, focus on what is important and also important.

 

Focus, Focus, and Focus.

 

 

SWANA NIDRA: Swana means ‘Dog’ and Nidra means ‘Sleeping’. In whole it means the sleep of dog. In more precise, you can say ‘the Alertness of Dog’.

Everyone loves dog, if you are not, you should get attach to them. They are cute and playful.

Have you ever seen a dog while he is sleeping?

Even his eyes are closed while he is sleeping, but he is attentive of its surrounding.

I derive, two aspects from this term ‘Swana Nidra’. One is the alertness during sleeping which is direct one. Second one has a deeper one. It means, A student must aware of its surrounding while he is doing his duties of studying and learning. Here, surrounding means the contemporary issues, Science & Technology, Sports, Famous personalities like Scientists, CEOs, Awardees, Character from Mythology, History. Rather than spending more time on non-useful activities, spend some time on listening, watching and reading meaningful, useful and informative podcasts, videos and blog posts respectively. As a student, these activities will widen your knowledge, your perspectives and help you to decide what is right or wrong? You can learn much more from other’s experiences.

 

ALPAHARI: This term is of two Sanskrit words. ALPA, which means ‘less’ and AHARA means ‘Food’. In whole, it says, a Student who is seeking for Knowledge should eat less food. Here, food is for hunger, it helps us to build a healthy body. Like food, sound is a food for ears, Sight is a food for Eyes. Every sensory organ needs a food or inputs. We should care about the inputs we give to our sensory organs. Every input has an impact on our inner peace, psyche and mental peripheries. It stimulates our emotions which reflects on our actions.

 

GRIHATYAGI: GRIHA means ‘home’ and TYAGI means ‘Leave or Give Up’. In whole, it means ‘Leaving Home’.

In ancient times, Student would leave their home at early age to study under their teacher or Spiritual Gurus. Those school was called as ‘Gurukul’.

It has also another aspect. Home is our comfort zone. A student must leave his/her comfort zone to excel in his/her life. Comfort zone makes our life comfort. We never come to know about the struggle of life and lessons from it. As a student, you must give up your comfort to get victory.

 
Gist of this article:

1.    The efforts must to be done seamlessly like the thirsty crow who was struggling to drink water.

2.  Focus in life is mandatory. It precises your efforts to a particular one.

3. A student must alert about the needy information of its surrounding while pursuing his duty of studying like the Alertness of Dog.

4. Give right and meaningful inputs to your sensory organs. Because it stimulates your emotions and you also.

5. Give up your comfort zones to excel in life.

 

Conclusion:

1.    If you are a student, you must possess these 5 qualities in you to be productive and build you as a good person.

2.  If you are parents, you should teach your children about this. The benefits of these qualities might be known to you. These qualities make your children stand out. You must also instill some qualities from in you to bring peace in your life.

 

Happy Reading!