Guru Purnima Speech in English 2017

Good Morning Everyone! Today I’m here to discuss about Guru Purnima, a
prominent festival in both India and Nepal. As we all know Teachers and
principal are one of the forms of Guru, let me start my speech by conveying
my respect to them.

Guru Purnima is a spiritual day and there is a difference between Guru and
Teacher. A Guru is someone who teach life lessons and lead us to a path of
Glory. A Teacher is someone who teaches us reading and writing knowledge.
In the same way, there are three types of students for every Teacher/Guru.
There are the student, the disciple and the devotee.

The student is the one who wants to have the knowledge the Guru is having
and is always in his self control. The disciple is the one who want to learn the
morals of the Guru and wants to stay true to his rights avoiding the wrongs. A
devotee is however the one who dedicates himself to worship the Guru and
believe him to lead the devotee to any path the Guru wants. We are all the
devotees of God, so we can assume that God is the main Guru. But i don’t
think so.

Gurus are real people in our life who give motivation to us so we can
challenge ourselves and get back up again. No Guru will help their student in
their goals but a real Guru will stay with their student and motivate him to
reach the goal. They show the direction towards your Goal and they’ll be a
guide until you reach your goal. A real life Guru is not a sage, a religious
person or any priest. A real life Guru is anyone who wants to dedicate their
time and effort to push into the paths of Success. So, let’s see who does that
in our lies.

Parents are the first Gurus who teach us love and passion from Childhood.
They are our Childhood Gurus and guide us through a safe path so that we
can reach our goals. The second Gurus are our school teachers who define
our societal and cultural beliefs. Without Teachers, we wouldn’t know about
Maths, Science, History or any of these subjects that are vital for a good
societal knowledge. Teachers help shape our morals going into future.

But after a certain age, Parents and Teachers do not have an impact on our
minds. Our friends do. So, irrespective of how intelligent a friend is, a good
friend is always a Guru as he helps us and encourages us in any way he can
so that we can reach our Goals. After youth, we get married and we find a
Guru in our husband/wife.

All these points mean that there are Gurus in everyone’s life and a specific
type of Guru is important to us at some specific stages in our lives. No Guru
will be with us till our birth to death and in a way, to receive help and guidance
from other Gurus, you must be a Guru yourself.