Dr.
Sarvapalli Radhakrishanan
Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishanan, second President of India.
He took leave of this world in the same
pure and
untarnished form, in which he had come
to this world. After
remaining in Delhi for a long time, as
the Vice-President and
President of India, when he bade
farewell to Delhi, almost
everyone felicitated him heartily, and
gave him a hearty
farewell. The dignity of the august
post of the President of India
was justified by a greatman like him
who led a simple life of
high standard. He was a man without
enemy on account of his
sincerity, gentility and cultural
education and bringing up.
He was one of those political leaders,
who have high regard
for and attachment to their culture and
art. He was a Hindu full
of love and devotion for India’s social
culture. Together with
this, he had great regard for followers
of other religions. He
used to hear with respect and patience
even those persons who
differed from him in those ways of
thinking. At times his
politeness was mistaken for his
weakness but his large
heartedness was born of his firm
conviction and faith.
He was born on 5th September 1888 in
village Tirutani, in
Tamil Nadu, about 50 kms. from
Madras.
His family was highly
religious and his parents
worshipped the manifested form of God.
He completed his
Primary and Secondary education in
Mission School Tirupati
and Bellor College Bellor. He got
himself in the Christian
College Madras in 1905,
and got his B.A. and
M.A. degrees from there. In 1909, he
appointed a teacher of
Philosophy in a College in Madras. Henceforth,
he continued progressing and worked as
Professor ofPhilosophy in the Universities of Mysore and Calcutta. After
that, he worked for a long time as the
Vice-Chancellor of
Andhra University. He was also
Professor of Philosophy at the
Oxford University. He adorned the post
of the Vice-Chancellor
of Benaras Hindu University as well. He
was also the
ambassador of India in Soviet Russia.
He led many national
and International delegations.
He was the President of the Executive
Board of UNESCO in
the year 1948-49, which is a very
important assignment of
international importance. He was the
Vice-President of India for
the period 1952–62, and President of
India from 1962–67.
During the period, when he was the
President, the Indo-China
War of 1962, and Indo-Pak War of 1965
were fought and won.
His contribution in raising the morale
of the Indian soldiers
through his powerful speeches was
simply admirable and appreciable.
Dr. Radhakrishanan was a master of the
art of speaking. He
was invited to deliver lectures on
Indian and western
Philosophies by various countries. The
audience used to be spell
bound by his speeches. Dr.
Radhakrishanan had the rare
capacity of combining beautifully
ideas, imagination and
language. As a matter of fact the
greatman of lucid speeches
resided within him, which cannot be
explained in words. This
spiritual power of Dr. Radhakrishanan
did influence everyone,
and attracted the listeners towards him,
and took to an open
space from the limited field of the
self.
Dr. Radhakrishanan’s ready wit was
astonishing. Once he
went to England, where he was known as
a great scholar of
Hinduism. India was not independent
then. People in great
number assembled to hear him. During
meal, an English man
asked Dr. Radhakrishanan, “Is there any
society named Hindu ?
Or any Culture ? How scattered you
people are. All of you are
not of the same complexion—some fair,
some black; some are
Pigmies; some wear dhoti; some wear
lungi; some kurta, some
shirt. But look, all of us Englishmen
are alike, all fair, reddish
white.” To this Radhakrishanan replied
at once—“Horses are of
different colours and forms; but all
donkeys are alike. Variety
of colour and inequalities are the sign
of development.”
Many Universities of the world, by conferring honorary
degrees on Radhakrishanan felt
gratified and honoured.
Among them the most important are the
honorary degrees of Doctorate
conferred by the Harvard University and
the Overlin College. In
1954, the Government of India adorned
him with its highest
honour Bharat Ratna. He was one of the
first three dignified
persons to receive that adoration of
Bharat Ratna. World
famous Templeton Award was also given
to him. Dr.
Radhakrishanan authored many books, the
most popular of
which are---The Philosophy of the
Upanishads, Bhagwad
Geeta, East and West-Some Reflections,
Eastern Religion and
Western Thought, Indian Philosophy—An
Idealist View of life;
Hindu view of life; The Ethics of
Vedanta and its Preposition;
Philosophy of
Ravindra Nath Tagore, etc. were published by
George Allen and Aubin, London. His
popular works translated
in Hindi are—Indian Culture, Search of
Truth, Culture and
society. The book Dr. Radhakrishanan’s
Philosophy edited by
Shiplee is very well-known. This is a
felicitous volume in
which many research articles written by
several scholars on
Dr. Radhakrishanan’s researches have
been published.
As established in Geeta, according to
the principles of
Karmayog he was, no doubt, an
undisputable selfless Karmyogi
(Man of pure action). He was both, a
worshipper or devotee of
Indian culture and a politician, and he
tried to represent the
whole of human society, and he may also
be called a world
citizen. He was a great educationist
and he was proud of being a
teacher. When he was the President of
India, he expreseed the
desire that his birthday may be
celebrated as Teacher’s Day.
Since then, 5th September is celebrated
as the Teacher’s Day
every year.
Like Gautam Buddha, Dr. Radhakrishanan
was born with a
heart full of infinite compassion. His
shining light and bright
splendour did spread over the Indian
sky, but it also obliged the
world’s earth by the touch of his sharp
intelligence. After
having a life full of years and
honours, he was one with the
Almighty. He was 87 then. He died on
16th April, 1975.
Dr. Radhakrishanan said that path was
straight, where you
continue working unmoved and selflessly
even under adverse
circumstances. Remembering God every
moment is to make
yourself one with the universal self,
is to keep the individual
self one with the universal
consciousness. The vanity of
inertness may not get the better of you
and to consider your
duty as carrying out orders of the creator is to pave the path of
self-surrender.
Dr. Radhakrishanan was reflected in him
a living image of
India’s common man’s faith,
understanding, benevolence,
dutifulness, feeling of everlasting
good, honesty and simplicity.
Awareness of being a citizen of a great
country had made him
more humble. The highest posts made him
more and more usual
and the crookness of politics made him
more firm.
Ideas of Dr. Radhakrishanan
1. The ultimate aim of Dharma is to
experience truth.
2. The goal of life philosophy is not
to explain life, but to
change life.
3. After realisation of bread-God, the
realisation of wisdom-
God becomes very easy.
4. Philosophy takes its birth as a
result of truth-experience
and not as a result of study of history
of researches of
truth.
5. Philosophy is a creative learning.
6. Soul wisdom is never destroyed or
ever lasting.
7. Every individual is an idol of God.
8. Philosophy of one century becomes
the knowledge of the
next century.
9. Little knowledge of philosophy makes
a man incline
towards atheism, but with deep
knowledge of philosophical
ideas, the man becomes religion-minded.
10. The fusion of religion with
politics is impossible. One
seeks the truth, while the other has
nothing to do with it.
11. Destiny cannot stop a man who is
inspired by a great goal.
12. After having learnt to fly in the
air like birds and to swim
in the water like fish man has to learn
how to walk on
earth like a human being.
13. In philosophy the achievement of
goal is not so important
as those things which one gets on the
way.
14. No doubt, time is valuable, but
truth is more valuable than
the time.
15. The changing of man into a demon,
is his defeat, his
becoming a super human is a miracle,
and becoming a
human being of man is his victory.
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