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Completing 1 degree and securing a job is soul motto of today’s youth. Enthusiasts even complete masters, Ph.D. even D.Lit. but there are people like Dr Shrikant Jich-kar ( 1954 –2004) whose only motto in their life is study, study, study nothing more.

“To know, is to know that you know noth-ing. That is the meaning of true knowledge”—Socrates.

The Marathi man, who died in a car ac-cident in 2004, has the distinction of be-ing “the most qualified person” in In-

dia according to Limca Book of Records.

He was born into a Marathi family based in Aajangaon near Nagpur. A scholar with interests in myriad subjects, he began as a doctor (MBBS and MD) and went on to complete 20 post-graduate university de-grees with gold medals in most of them.

Here it goes, He began as a Medical Doctor (MBBS and MD) then he did his Law (LL.B.) with Post-graduation in International Law (LL.M.) and his Masters in Business Adminis-tration (DBM and MBA) and also a bachelor in Journalism (B.Journ). He did his Masters in ten subjects they are M.A. (Public Adminis-tration ; M.A. (Sociology) ; M.A. (Economics); M.A. (Sanskrit); M.A. (History); M.A.(English Literature); M.A. (Philosophy); M.A. (Political Science) ; M.A. (Ancient Indian History, Cul-ture and Archaeology); M.A (Psychology). He got his D. Litt. (Doctor of Letters) in Sanskrit, the highest of any Degree in a University.

Most of his Degrees are with First Mer-it and he has obtained several Gold Med-als for his degrees. Between 1973 and 1990 he has written 42 University Exam-inations, every summer and every winter.

In 1978 he wrote the IPS (Indian Police Service) examination and got into it, re-signed, wrote the prestigious IAS (Indi-an Administrative Services) examination

in 1980 and got into it, resigning in four months to contest his first general election.

In 1980, he was elected to Maharashtra Leg-islative Assemble becoming the youngest MLA in the country at 25 and subsequent-ly became a very powerful government Minister holding 14 portfolios at a time.

Jichkar was also an academician, painter, professional photographer, and stage actor.Uff these are his qualification apart from his hobbies like he was a traveler and trav-eled all around India speaking on health, economics and also giving religious dis-courses. Jichkar was an active Amateur ra-dio operator and used the call-sign VU2SJA.

He had one of the biggest person-al libraries in India with 52,000 books.

Mr. Shrikant Jichkar tru-ly is making us recall the quotation,

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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※ Spiritual: Can the Mind Commit Suicide - Osho ...............4

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The mind cannot commit suicide, because whatsoever the mind can do will strengthen the mind. Any doing on the part of the mind makes the mind more strong. So suicide is impossible.

Mind doing something means mind con-tinuing itself — so that is not in the nature of things. But suicide happens. Mind can-not commit it — mm? — let me make it absolutely clear: mind cannot commit it, but suicide happens. It happens through watching the mind, not by doing anything.

The watcher is separate from the mind, it is deeper than the mind, higher than the mind. The watcher is always hidden behind the mind. A thought passes, a feeling arises — who is watching this thought? Not the mind itself — because mind is nothing but the pro-cess of thought and feeling. The mind is just the traffic of thinking. Who is watching it? When you say, “An angry thought has arisen in me,” who are ‘you’? In whom has the thought arisen? Who is the container? The thought is the content — who is the container?

The mind is like when you print a book: on white, clean paper, words appear. That empty paper is the container and the printed words are the content. Consciousness is like emp-ty paper. Mind is like written, printed paper.

Whatsoever exists as an object inside you, whatsoever you can see and ob-serve, is the mind. The observer is not the mind, the observed is the mind.

So if you can go on simply observing, with-

out condemning, without in any way cre-ating a conflict with the mind, without indulging it, without following it, with-out going against it, if you can simply be there indifferent to it, in that indifference suicide happens. It is not that mind com-mits suicide: when the watcher arises, the witness is there, mind simply disappears.

Mind exists with your cooperation OR your conflict. Both are ways of cooperating — conflict too! When you fight with the mind, you are giving energy to it. In your VERY fight you have accepted the mind, in your very fighting you have accepted the power of the mind over your being. So whether you cooperate or you conflict, in both the cases the mind becomes stronger and stronger.

Just watch. Just be a witness. And, by and by, you will see gaps arising. A thought pass-es, and another thought does not come immediately — there is an interval. In that interval is peace. In that interval is love. In that interval is all that you have always been seeking — and finding never. In that gap, you are no more an ego. In that gap you are not defined, confined, imprisoned. In that gap you are vast, immense, huge! In that gap you are one with existence — the barri-er exists not. Your boundaries are no more there. You melt into existence and the exis-tence melts in you. You start overlapping.

If you go on watching and you don’t get at-tached to these gaps either… because that is natural now, to get attached to these gaps. If you start hankering for these gaps… be-cause they are tremendously beautiful, they are immensely blissful. It is natural to get attached to them, and desire arises to have more and more of these gaps — then you will miss, then your watcher has disappeared. Then those gaps will again disappear, and again the traffic of the mind will be there.

So the first thing is to become an indifferent watcher. And the second thing is to remem-ber that when beautiful gaps arise, don’t get attached to them, don’t start asking for them, don’t start waiting that they should happen more often. If you can remember these two things — when beautiful gaps come, watch them too, and keep your indif-ference alive — then one day the traffic sim-ply disappears with the road, they both dis-appear. And there is tremendous emptiness.

That’s what Buddha calls ‘Nirvana’ — the mind has ceased. This is what I call suicide — but mind has not committed it. Mind can-not commit it. You can help it to happen. You can hinder it, you can help it to happen — it depends on you, not on your mind. All that mind can do will always strengthen the mind.

So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real medi-tation is just allowing the mind to have its own way, and not interfering in any way whatsoever — just remaining watchful, wit-nessing. It silences, by and by, it becomes still. One day it is gone. You are left alone.

That aloneness is what your reality is. And in that aloneness nothing is exclud-ed, remember it. In that aloneness ev-erything is included — that aloneness is God. That purity, that innocence, uncor-rupted by any thought, is what God is.

-Osho

From The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol-ume 3, Chapter 2

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