Learning - Yashraj Sharma

 When one teaches, two learn."

                       Robert Heinlein

It is what is called the "joy of learning". We learn by our flaws, mistakes, experiences, and sometimes by our wrong decisions.

We learn through interacting with our friends, listening to others, by seeing some skills and also very much from books. These all act as raw material, food for thought and, at times, gives fuel to our ideas and unleash our imagination. But, as said, it's a symbiotic relationship between the two…the learner and the mentor as both take lessons and upgrade their understanding.

It also gives a platform for both to enlarge their perspective and sometimes changes their perspective.

It would be correct to say, "What we learn becomes a part of who we are".

Yashraj Sharma

Grade 8 

Gyanshree school 

My library, my treasure - Yashraj Sharma

We all must have heard the old saying, “Books are our best friends”. That is true; I also have a small and compact home library. I’ve always been interested in reading since I was a child, and books have taught me many life lessons; now, I am trying to work towards making them my personality traits. Books give us food for thought, just like a true friend.

Happy reading.

Yashraj Sharma

Grade 8

Gyanshree school

Spirituality - Rishona Chopra

Spirituality is not about praying to God or meditation. It is about the values we inculcate in ourselves. Humility, Hope, Love, Happiness, and all other values. It is being free from all clutter and learning to control our minds. 

Spirituality is also about connecting to God, not through prayers but through our minds, talking to them as if they were our parents, our closest friends who wouldn't reveal our secrets to anyone. Whenever I am worried about a test or upset or angry, I try to talk to God by just speaking out all my feelings in my mind. You don't need to go to a temple or even pray.

Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!
Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with shut doors?
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground, and the path maker is breaking stones.
He is with them in the sun and in the shower,
and his garment is covered with dust.
Put off thy holy mantle and, like him, come down on the dusty soil!
Deliverance?
Where is this deliverance to be found?
Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation;
he is bound with us all forever.
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense!
What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained?
Meet and stand by him in toil and the sweat of thy brow.
- Rabindranath Tagore 

This is a poem by Rabindranath Tagore which tells us how to connect with God and the meaning of spirituality.

Rishona Chopra  
Grade VI 
Gyanshree School