I know poverty and misery and I quite appreciate by personal experience what it is to be poor, what it is to have no clothes, what it is to have no books, what it is to struggle through life, what it is to walk through the streets without an umbrella, without conveyance along miles on dusty roads. I have been through it all and I can understand the difficulties that most of you graduates have to face today. I am speaking from a long experience of 60 years. Please do not imagine that all the 60 years are milk and roses. To be able to accomplish something, I want to tell you that you have to go through such experiences.
I admit success in life is not always to be intelligent or be strong, and it is to some extent a bit of a gamble, but those who got their minds right and those who know their job sooner or later, will sooner perhaps than later make their way in life. But they should not be disappointed if they do not, they have to face up life and take it as they find it.
What I say is that the great things in life are not really great things in life. What I love is to enjoy the common things of life. I am happy that I am still able to sleep at night provided I have three miles walk in the evening. I am still able to enjoy a good lunch or a good dinner. I am still able to look at the blue sky and like it. I still like to walk in the open fields and like the smell of the Ragi or the Jowar.
We think that happiness consists of going to pictures and seeing thrilling films and technicolor dramas. Not at all, the great things in life are the God-given things which cost nothing. What you need is the desire to appreciate them. If you have your minds and hearts open, you have around your things which give you joy. There is the butterfly jumping about in flourishing colors on all sides. Look at the wonderful thing that God has given for our enjoyment.
We have to love nature and appreciate nature and appreciate her wonderful gifts, of nature’s marvelous ingenuity, its resourcefulness, and infinite variety. It is the same thing that has inspired me all my life.
I. How had C.V. Raman’s childhood been difficult?
He had lived life as a poor
He had access to books only
He had to run on the streets
He never drank milk as a child
II.Why has life been termed as a gamble?
It disappoints you always
Life is good to only hardworking people
Even an intelligent or strong person is unsure of success
CV Raman has lost money in this gamble
III.What according to C.V Raman consists of happiness?
Seeing thrilling films and technicolor dramas
Things that cost money
God-given gifts which cost nothing
A graduate student’s life
IV. According to the text, what should we love?
Life
Gamble
C.V Raman
Nature
V. Which smell did he like in the fields?
Butterflies in fields
Ragi and Jowar
Dinner
Dusty Roads
VI. How many years of experience does C.V Raman have?
6 years
60 years
16 years
66 years
Answers
Answer:
During his childhood, C.V. Raman had no clothes, no books, no conveyance. He had to walk along miles even without an umbrella.
Life has been termed as a gamble as it is not sure that the intelligent or the strong would certainly succeed in life.
In his speech, C.V. Raman told us the easiest way to enjoy life, we should enjoy the common things of life, love and appreciate nature, appreciate its wonderful gifts, marvellous ingenuity, resourcefulness, and infinite variety.
There is the butterfly jumping about in flourishing colors on all sides, look at this wonderful thing that God has given for our enjoyment.
We can seek happiness in all the God-given things which cost nothing. Happiness can never be found in artificial things like going to pictures and seeing thrilling films.