Nabakrushna Choudhury College of Teacher Education Angul

 

‘Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya’ means ‘from darkness lead me to light’

Tam (tamas) – Darkness, ignorance

Jyoti (jyotir) – Light, clarity, purity

Lead us to knowledge.

It is very positive in nature.

It does not speak of divinity or any religion.

It basically says take us from ignorance to knowledge.

Lead us to the enlightenment from ignorance created by our actions, thoughts and understanding.

The prayer setts a framework in mind for a student to come there for the sake of knowledge to a college and seek knowledge in the right framework of mind.

The student, a seeker who is dwelling himself knowledge, seeking to pray to the divine to show the path to trend from ignorance to knowledge