School Rimdro

Spiritual dimension, especially school rituals have long been in aestivation in our school. We could not invite any religious master, like in the past, to give us any religious discourse in the first academic session. We had to remain dry. I almost felt like having reached the desert where I could see numerous mirages but not the real pool of water. We had to reside with heavy psychological pressure on our shoulder, with constant fear of amiss, and with constant inner prayer to Almighty above not to let the sun of good health and happiness set in our school till we find time to arrange rituals where we believe, we get opportunity to converse with our protective deity in person to negotiate our health, conducive atmosphere for study and path to good works. The reason(s) which disabled us to arrange spiritual programme was/were purely our preparation for the 13^th July 2013 historical election where we witnessed shocking, but not impossible aftermaths.

However, on 10^th August 2013, we could get out of our suffocating aestivation and got fresh air to breath. We conducted school rimdro, Sher Nying Doog which is assumed so important for students and any budding great soul. The ex-umze of Rigsum Goenpa, who was invited to preside over our ritual interpreted that Sher Nying is common to all four sects viz. Karyug, Nyingma, Sachap and Gaylup of Buddhism. It became common only because of the fact that it has endowment of unimaginable spiritual strength. To students, he informed that Sher Nying would protect them against tentacles of wrathful diseases, present before person good atmosphere to study and prepare, and enables one to write examinations successfully and gradually fulfills one’s unaccomplished expectations.

With the conduct of rimdro, heavy load placed on the neck of administration which made administrator and his team weighted down like yoke on the neck of oxen, got relieved. I felt freed and relished. I have heard of news, some years back, cropped in one school, of parents complaining against school authority for the sickness of their children in school citing the reason to be school’s non conduct of annual rimdro. Though we are in 21^st Century, we still have parents and communities who see the indispensable and unexplained curative spiritual power vested with rimdro. Parents may be right, or wrong, in asserting that assumptions and associating the sickness of their children to not conducting ritual, but we must not remain defiant and complacent. It is one aspect of our tradition and custom with which we have come a long way. It has now formed its root in our heart. Hence, it is now part and parcel of our life. Not finding moment to conduct it always means remaining with imbalance of some part of our anatomy which may result into ineffective or incomplete actions.  

Our present rimdro became highly successful. Its successes can be attributed to the wholehearted and unwavering support rendered by teachers, students, parents and community around. Thanks to all members for coming closer at the crucial hours of need.