RAJESH.C BOSE - Maturity

Can one be mature
If he gets Old?
That's my first question.

Can one be a real Guru?
If he instills ambition among students?
That's my second question.

Because merely getting old
Or merely the grey hair
Is surely not a symbol of maturity.

When I sat in the class for the first time
I was asked to tell my ambition
And it robbed all my delight and innocence
And I became a neurotic and anti social.

Now you tell me
Can these people be respected
Because of their old age and grey hair?

RAJESH.C BOSE

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