The following is an excerpt from an e-mail written from SKR to his grandson, Sudu.
“…reward and recognition are not easy to come by and one has to focus, persevere and energise oneself constructively....This is your age to train yourself in these and find out, prove to YOURSELF what stuff you are made of, what you can do with
yourself...Confusing?
The human being distinguishes itself biologically from the rest by a well- evolved brain function and it's in this direction one has to excel too, by making the maximum use of this endowed trait! Languages, literature, mathematics, music, rational, scientific thinking –don’t view these as school curricula but as human achievements and destiny...Go after them, master them, excel in them, enjoy them...these are high forms of enjoyment which you should assiduously cultivate –by conserving your energy in the right directions.....
I always believe that Life is for enjoyment, Life is for finding out what is enjoyment, Life is for bringing enjoyment to yourself and others, Life is too precious to fritter it away on frivolous goals or bring misery to oneself and others!
Life is at once a personal affair and a collective affair and one needs to do a balancing act...is both Giving and Taking....is a string of frustrations and ecstasy... is a sequence of sounds and silence.. All at the same time!
As an older (not aged) person, I can extol the virtues of youthhood and praise its Glory....you may not be able to save youthhood forever but, acting properly then, you may not miss it!”
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These are not mere words of wisdom from him - this is exactly how he lived his life.
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