Prof. CLEMENT D’SOUZA WAS OUR OWN RENAISSANCE MAN
In the passing away of Prof. Clement D’Souza, we have lost a great soul and pioneer of Pranic Healing and NLP in Mangalore.
By any standards, Clement sir was a remarkable person. My wife Prof. Anita and I had the privilege of being his students and attending two of his NLP courses. What impressed us most was his continued quest for new knowledge, his commitment to sharing it, his constant endeavour to update what he had learnt, and his infinite capacity to innovate. And he peppered his classes with a range of Santa and Banta jokes whenever the learning got heavy. He was a good teacher.
He was the first person to bring in Pranic Healing and NLP to Mangalore; he also practised Shivananda Yoga and Sujok (which Advocate Jayaram Padakannaya had introduced) and Reiki. He had mastered all these alternative therapies and was a master trainer and healer. He had the rare distinction of learning Pranic Healing with its founder, Master Choa Kok Sui. He also practised healing through Hypnosis and the Hawaiian Ho’oponopono.
He was a man open to new knowledge and welcomed the tenets of Hinduism and other religions. He believed that all paths to the Truth were equally valid and should be used for healing humanity.
Even after his retirement from St Agnes College, he was deeply committed to learning new things. It is unbelievable that Clement sir mastered such a wide range of alternative therapies all after his retirement. He was the eternal Learner and Healer. Up to the very end, he remained wedded to his vocation and proved that “to learn it is never too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
He was by nature affable, forthright, a strict disciplinarian and scholar. His students at St Agnes College (my sister Keerthana was one of them) vouch for his dedication to teaching, his mastery of Economics, his zeal for the environment and rainwater harvesting, and his commitment to the truth. He never hesitated to support a student when he felt the student was right. In his own way, he spoke truth to power. He had a fantastic memory and believed learning had no borders and no barriers of age as well. He was one of Mangalore’s Renaissance Men!
Let us doff our hats to Prof Clement…may his soul have a peaceful transition and may he discover the joys of new worlds that he envisaged.
We will miss him, but derive solace from the fact that in his teachings and in the learnings of thousands of his students, his legacy lives on.
Guru Clement, go in Peace! We shall always keep you in our hearts. Our only regret is that you were always willing to share your knowledge with us, but we did not take enough from you. Maybe, someday, we will.
Prof. Ravishankar Rao
