What is education? It is of two types. The first type is collection of facts and knowledge about the external world, and sharing them with students. The second type is educare. Educare involves the deep understanding of the knowledge that springs from within and imparting it to students.
Both education and culture are important. Today’s education is devoid of culture and is like a counterfeit coin. Even a beggar does not accept a counterfeit coin.
Education without refinement is like a dark room. Only bats can live in dark rooms; such rooms are filthy. So, by pursuing such education devoid of culture, our hearts have become dark rooms and hence many animal qualities find their way into them.
What is culture? It is the cultivation of discrimination between good and evil, sin and merit, and truth and untruth that we experience in our daily life. It is also removal of one’s evil thoughts, feelings and qualities, and cultivation of good thoughts, feelings and qualities. Not only this, culture makes one broad-minded by getting rid of one’s narrow-mindedness.
How many books have we studied? How many subjects have I studied? How many degrees have we earned? How many languages have we studied? These are not important. Did we follow a single good habbit from our studies? Let us listen to the great story narrated to students by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba about Mansur and his strong faith on a single sentence “I am GOD”, he had learnt.
Great words of Mansur Al-Hallaj – Unself yourself!!
CMMC-2020 Topper Trophy Award Function Invitation Banner
CMMC-2020
A Free Multiple Choice Question Based Contest for
STD IX to STD XII Students (CBSE / TN STATE Board)
The Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation was founded in the year of 1960 by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba to enable its members to undertake service activities as a means to spiritual advancement.
Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation (SSSO), is one that accepts the equality of all the Religions across the World and promotes the Unity of mankind across the globe. The SSSO, India has undertaken several nationwide initiatives and programs under the different wings of the organisation (Educational wing, Service wing and Spiritual wing) which has touched the lives of innumerable people across India in a positive way. With the moto of “Transforming Self to Transform the World”, the ever growing Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation India with its thousands of Seva Samithis and Bhajan Mandalis (centres) established all across the length and breadth of the country, is creating a platform to embark upon this divine transformation journey for both the individual and the society at large.
As a part of the Educare activities, Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, Chennai Metro North, Tamilnadu conducted a Free Multiple Choice Question Based Contest for STD IX to STD XII Students (CBSE / TN STATE Board -both English and Tamil Media) on 16th February 2020 at Central Metro Railway Station Lobby B5 coordinated by a team of subject matter experts in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Accountancy, Commerce, Economics, and Social Science. The duration of the contest is 2 hours. There were 120 multiple choice questions in 3 subjects. Students were advised to choose any 3 subjects and attempt this MCQ Contest (CMMC-2020- Chennai Metro MCQ Contest) to check their preparedness for the forthcoming board and school annual examinations.
By attempting one mark questions, students can score full marks in short interval of time and this builds up a good confidence among students. With this strategy they will score high marks in the forthcoming board examinations and make proud of their schools. Students started online registration from 5th February 2020. Within a few days it has crossed 1600 with 1415 students from T.N. State board English medium schools, 37 students from Tamil medium T.N. State board schools and 148 students from CBSE schools. In spite of tight schedule of examination students from more than 20 schools have participated in this contest. The wider reach of this successful MCQ Contest indicates the interest of the students, the involvement of parents and the extensive support from T.N. State board schools and their head masters and teaches. Since this contest has reached widely across Chennai, we will try to conduct similar programmes in various parts of Chennai. We thank Central Metro Rail Authorities, School heads, teachers, parents and wish a grand success to all students participating in CMMC-2020 contest. The result link was posted on 19th February through WhatsApp and Telegram. It is score dashboard. Students can themselves find their names and percentage of marks scored in CMMC-2020. The first 133 students were invited to Sri Sathya Sai Nivas, Perambur, Chennai – 11 on 23rd February 2020.
Total number of Students Registered-1659 from 180 schools STD 9 = 354 STD 10 = 528 STD 11 =311 STD 12= 466
Total number of Students Participated- 1142 STD 9 = 219 STD 10 = 464 STD 11 = 212 STD 12 = 247
The Topper Trophy Award function was held on 23rd February 2020 at Sri Sathya Sainivas, Perbambur, Chennai-11. District president of SSSO, Chennai Metro North gave welcome address to the students and parents.
District Spiritual Coordinator of SSSO explanined the need for spirituality for a successful student.
Sri. E. Ramanathan briefed the audience on how the CMMC-2020 was made a grand successful event among the students with the blessings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Sri Sainath compered efficiently the entire event with his extempore.
Total number of students eligible for the award was 133, out of which 118 students turned out along with their parents and made the award function a grand event.
It turned out to be an interesting discussion where it didn’t stop with the awarding ceremony alone but became a brainstorming and interactive session with parents and the students. The most expected needs of the students and the parents were noted down by the educational service team with high priority to start the further course of action in the field of educational service.
The certificates and the trophies were distributed by State service coordinator and honourable sevadals of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations who were a part of the CMMC seva at Chennai Central CMRL station.
Free Exam Preparation Tips were provided by Educational Service Volunteers of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, Chennai Metro North on 2nd Feburary 2020. 467 Students have registered their names and more than 350 students participated in the seminar. Distric Service Coordinator actively engaged her team in Registration. Ms. Priya Sridhar gave a warm welcome address to all students. The prayer hall was jam packed with 300 students from more than 15 schools. Perambur Girls Higher secondary school students were the majority of the audience. Remaining students were accomodated in the first first floor where they were able to watch the entire events live in the projector screen.
District president addressed the students and advised them to come regularly to Sainivas and make use of various services provided by the organisation. Sri. Sathishkumar motivated the students, explained the importance for early morning studies and insisted on the regular discipline from the beginning of the academic year.
Sri. E. Ramanathan conducted a short MCQ test and demonstrated the learning strategy and exam preparation with the support of students viz., Pavani, Dharshani, Harini and Suraj. MCQ answer sheets were immediately reviewed by skills school trainers and volunteers.
Toppers who scored 18 out of 20 marks and above were awarded by District president, Sri Harihar Krishna and Sri. Mohan and Ms. Mala.
Mr Sahul Hameed (Hon’ble Secretary of the Jamath) blessed all students and distributed examination kit and sketch notebooks.
Mr Nagore Najumuddin and Principal of their School delivered motivation talks to the students.
Sri Sairam from V.P. Colony thanked the school heads and parents who sent their children to this mega educational event at the appropriate time.
During the tea break rose milk was served along with the home made chocolates prepared by Harini.
The cooking team of Sainivas rendered their excellent service and provided free lunch to all children, parents, devotees besides the regular Sunday Narayana Seva.
The IT wing of the organisation rendered their service in video capturing the entire event, installed three projectors with public address system at three different locations and made the entire program lively available to all students.
MCQ Test Toppers were awarded by Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, Chennai Metro North.
Everybody felt the importance for unity in diversity, learning strategy, and the fact that education is meant for both life and living. The programme was started by 9:30 a.m. and concluded with Mangala arathi followed by lunch at Sri Sathya Sainivas.
