Prayer of Sarasvati Keeping Laxmi in Mind

How we can forget our school prayer of goddess Sarasvati, the goddess of knowledge.  This tradition still persists in schools. The right of education is a fundamental right in India (article 21-A).  Government schools are there in India at large scale. Government has also increased salary to the government employees including government teachers at handsome level. Private schools have also been permitted to open in India at very large scale. Despite the government school, parents are more inclined towards private schools, and ready to pay high fees to the private schools. It has become tough to take admission in private schools. Most parents’ measure that the high fees mean high quality education and it has also become the social status. The teachers in private school get very less salary in comparison to government teachers, still people are not interested to take the admission in government school with minimal fees, and rather they struggle to take admission in private schools with huge fees and sometimes along with massive donation.

On survey, we will find that, the most of the private schools have been opened not to provide good education but for the intention to earn high income. Most of the founders are not highly educated or understand the real value of education, but they have money and political liaison to get the permission to open the school, and they have done it for the purpose to work the school as a milch-cow for them, and convert their black money into white. They are able to provide good infrastructure to attract the people for the admission. For them, education is not more than a business. Now a day, we find the deprivation of coherent between the teachers and students. The education system has been commercialized.

The school looks like a business, the founder is a businessman, and the teachers are staffs to run this business, as teaches have lost any right, even to scold any child. Teachers have fear to lose their job, if they do not follow the dictation of the founder, although it looks the transgression of the morality. Parents invest money on their kids, in the hope to get more return by getting the high paying job. The real education can be earned by investing time, energy, effort with burning desire. No one bother to know the real interest of the kids, but people on their own interest and market value of the particular subject stream, they compel kids to choose that stream.

In school, they render the prayer of goddess Sarasvati, but keeping Laxmi in mind. Our attention is on Vidhya-Laxmi which can help to earn more Dhan-Laxmi. Sarasvati has only become the part of tradition and rituals without much heed on her. Metaphorically, the river Sarasvati became invisible and only her name exists.