हो गई गुम कहाँ सहर अपनी रात जा कर भी रात आई है

Happy and contended life:

     सुख का अर्थ केवल कुछ पा लेना नहीं अपितु जो है उसमे संतोष कर लेना भी है। जीवन में सुख तब नहीं आता जब हम ज्यादा पा लेते हैं बल्कि तब भी आता है जब ज्यादा पाने का भाव हमारे भीतर से चला जाता है।
     सोने के महल में भी आदमी दुखी हो सकता है यदि पाने की इच्छा समाप्त नहीं हुई हो और झोपड़ी में भी आदमी परम सुखी हो सकता है यदि ज्यादा पाने की लालसा मिट गई हो तो। असंतोषी को तो कितना भी मिल जाये वह हमेशा अतृप्त ही रहेगा।
    सुख बाहर की नहीं, भीतर की संपदा है। यह संपदा धन से नहीं धैर्य से प्राप्त होती है। हमारा सुख इस बात पर निर्भर नहीं करता कि हम कितने धनवान है अपितु इस बात पर निर्भर करता है कि है कि कितने धैर्यवान हैं। सुख और प्रसन्नता आपकी सोच पर निर्भर करती है।

    

भूमि नहीं भूमिका बदलो:

जीवन को दो तरीकों से सुखद बनाया जा सकता है। पहला यह है कि जो तुम्हें पसंद है उसे प्राप्त कर लो या जो प्राप्त है उसे पसंद कर लो।
     अगर आप भी उन व्यक्तिओं में से एक हैं जो प्राप्त को पसंद नहीं करते और ना ही पसंद को प्राप्त करने का सामर्थ्य रखते हैं तो आपने स्वयं ही अपने सुखों का द्वार बंद कर रखा है।
     सुख प्राप्त करने की चाह में आदमी मकान बदलता है, दुकान बदलता है। कभी-कभी देश बदलता है तो कभी-कभी भेष भी बदलता है। लेकिन अपनी सोच और स्वभाव बदलने को राजी नहीं है।
      भूमि नहीं अपनी भूमिका बदलो। जिस दिन आदमी ने अपना स्वभाव जीत लिया उसी दिन उसका अभाव मिट जायेगा।

    

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

We’re drawn in by the energy and passion that enthusiastic people have for their idea, product, or desire. Their voice, body language (smiling, direct eye contact, open body posture), and deep conviction mesmerize us into following them, just as children followed the mythical Pied Piper. Enthusiastic people are energy-givers. Enthusiastic people inspire us to become more confident, open, and alive; they help us be our best and share ourselves more willingly with others.

Enthusiasm and success go hand in hand, but enthusiasm comes first. Enthusiasm inspires confidence, raises morale, builds loyalty and is priceless. Enthusiasm is contagious. You can feel enthusiasm by the way a person talks, walks or shakes hands. Enthusiasm is a habit that one can acquire and practice.

Many decades ago, Charles Schwab, who was earning a salary of a million dollars a year, was asked if he was being paid such a high salary because of his exceptional ability to produce steel.

Charles Schwab replied, "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."

Live while you are alive. Don't die before you are dead.

Enthusiasm and desire are what change mediocrity to excellence.

Water turns into steam with a difference of only one degree in temperature and steam can move some of the biggest engines in the world. That is what enthusiasm helps us to do in our lives.

So be enthusiastic and live life to the fullest. RADIATE POSITIVE ENERGY, BE CURIOUS AND INTERESTED IN LIFE.. FOCUS ON THE GOOD (even when things are bad). FEEL DEEPLY AND LAUGH OFTEN. DO SOMETHING YOU LOVE every day, no matter how small. SERVE A GREATER PURPOSE than yourself ie have a desire to help others and build community.

GOD IS AT THE WINDOW !!!

There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with out in the woods.

He practiced in the woods; but he could never hit the target. Getting a little discouraged, he headed back for dinner… As he was walking back he saw Grandma’s pet duck.

Just out of impulse, he let the slingshot fly, hit the duck square in the head and killed it. He was shocked and grieved! In a panic, he hid the dead duck in the wood pile; only to see his Sister watching! Sally had seen it all, but she said nothing. After lunch the next day Grandma said, ‘Sally, let’s wash the dishes’ But Sally said, ‘Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen.

‘ Then she whispered to him, “Remember the duck?’ So Johnny did the dishes. Later that day, Grandpa asked if the children wanted to go fishing and Grandma said, ‘I’m sorry but I need Sally to help make supper.’ Sally just smiled and said, ‘well that’s all right because Johnny told me he wanted to help?

She whispered again, ‘Remember the duck?’ So Sally went fishing and Johnny stayed to help. After several days of Johnny doing both his chores and Sally’s; he Finally couldn’t stand it any longer. He came to Grandma and confessed that he had killed the duck.

Grandma knelt down, gave him a hug and said, ‘Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was standing at the window and I saw the whole thing, but because I love you, I forgave you. I was just wondering how long you would let Sally make a slave of you.’ Thought for the day and every day thereafter:

Whatever is in your past, whatever you have done…? And the devil keeps throwing it up in your face (lying, cheating, debt, fear, bad habits, hatred, anger, bitterness, etc…)…whatever it is..You need to know that:

God was standing at the window and He saw the whole thing. He has seen your whole life… He wants you to know that He loves you and that you are forgiven.

He’s just wondering how long you will let the devil make a slave of you.. The great thing about God is that when you ask for forgiveness;

He not only forgives you, but He forgets. It is by God’s grace and mercy that we are saved. Go ahead and make the difference in someone’s life today.

Share this and always remember: God is at the window!

DETERMINATON !!!

In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.

Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.

The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.

"We told them so.", "Crazy men and their crazy dreams.", "It`s foolish to chase wild visions."

Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.

He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.

It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.

For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.

Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.

Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realised with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.

Even the most distant dream can be realized with determination and persistence.

Try Try till you succeed for where there is a will there is a way !

Value !!!

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rs20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this Rs20 bill?"

Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this Rs20 to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth Rs20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.

We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. You are special - Don't ever forget it!

WE SEE THINGS NOT THE WAY THEY ARE BUT THE WAY WE ARE - MUST READ !

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Our minds are constantly trying to make sense of our world, forming judgements and opinions about every situation, event, interaction. Those judgements and opinions will be affected by our central or core belief system. It is as though we are looking at the world through distorted or coloured lenses – and everyone has their own personal prescription or colour for their glasses.

There is a legend about a wise man who was sitting outside his village. A traveler came up and asked him, "What kind of people live in this village, because I am looking to move from my present one?"

The wise man asked, "What kind of people live where you want to move from?"

The man said, "They are mean, cruel, rude." The wise man replied, "The same kind of people live in this village too."

After some time another traveler came by and asked the same question and the wise man asked him, "What kind of people live where you want to move from?"

And the traveler replied, "The people are very kind, courteous, polite and good."

The wise man said, "You will find the same kind of people here too."

What is the moral of the story?

Generally we see the world not the way it is but the way we are. Most of the time, other people's behavior is a reaction to our own.

So it seems that a just a few moments' thinking time can prime you to perform either better or worse than normal at both mental and physical tasks.

Within any meeting of people all the individuals will of course have their own belief system, and will therefore have different perspectives – see and think about things differently - and this will affect the way these individuals interact with each other. We can learn to be more aware of how our own belief system affects us, and consider how others might see the same situation quite differently. Wise Mind is the balanced part of us that comprises our knowledge and intuition, where thinking mind and emotion mind come together, the part of us that just “knows”, that inner truth:

Seeing different perspectives will help to reduce distressing emotions, help us feel more confident, enable us to be more understanding and empathic, and improve communication and relationships.

As we learn to challenge our unhelpful thoughts and biased perspectives, and see things in a more balanced and realistic way, so we will discover that situations and people can be different to how we usually interpret things, which can lead us to modify our core belief system, and therefore bring about lasting positive change.

How They Catch Monkeys In India !!!

Monkey-hunters use a box with an opening at the top, big enough for the monkey to slide its hand in. Inside the box are nuts. The monkey grabs the nuts and now its hand becomes a fist. The monkey tries to get its hand out but the opening is big enough for the hand to slide in, but too small for the fist to come out.

Now the monkey has a choice, either to let go off the nuts and be free forever or hang on to the nuts and get caught.

Guess what it picks every time? You guessed it..... He hangs on to the nuts and gets caught.

अति कहीं भी अछि नहीं:

��     कहना ही अपराध नहीं है कभी-कभी सहना भी अपराध बन जाता है। हमारे शास्त्र कहते हैं कि अति कहीं भी उचित नहीं है। अति सहन करना अपराध का मूक समर्थन करना है। 
��      जिन भगवान् श्री कृष्ण ने शिशुपाल की सौ गालियों को मुस्कराकर टाल दिया वो क्या एक गाली और सहन नहीं कर सकते थे ? अवश्य कर सकते थे मगर इससे एक विकृत मानसिकता को समर्थन मिल जाता।
��     समाज आज दोनों तरफ से त्रस्त है, एक तरफ अति कहने वालों से और दूसरी तरफ अति सहने वालों से भी। बुराई का प्रतिकार ना करने वाला भी बुराई का पोषक माना जाता है। बुराई को समय रहते ना मिटाया गया तो वह परम्परा भी बन सकती है।

मै चुप हूँ तो समझो मेरा मौन बोलता है।
बोलने से पहले सौ बार तोलता है॥
कोई शिशुपाल जब शब्द की मर्यादा तोड़ दे,
फिर बंशी नहीं चक्र डोलता है॥
                                                                                             

भग्त भगवान को भी गिरने से बचाते है:

उस समय का प्रसंग है जब केवट भगवान के चरण धो रहा है बड़ा प्यारा दृश्य है, एक पैर धोता है उसे निकालकर कठौती से बाहर रख देता है
और जब दूसरा धोने लगता है तो पहला वाला पैर गीला होने से जमीन पर रखने से धूल भरा हो जाता है, केवट दूसरा पैर बाहर रखता है फिर पहले वाले को धोता है, एक-एक पैर को सात-सात बार धोता है. कहता है प्रभु एक पैर कठौती मे रखिये
दूसरा मेरे हाथ पर रखिये, ताकि मैला ना हो. जब भगवान ऐसा करते है तो जरा सोचिये
क्या स्थिति होगी यदि एक पैर
कठौती में है दूसरा केवट के हाथो में, भगवान दोनों पैरों से खड़े नहीं हो पाते बोले-केवट मै गिर जाऊँगा ?
केवट बोला - चिंता क्यों करते हो सरकार ! दोनों हाथो को मेरे सिर पर रखकर खड़े हो जाईये, फिर नहीं गिरेगे , जैसे कोई छोटा बच्चा है जब उसकी माँ उसे स्नान कराती है तो बच्चा माँ के सिर पर हाथ रखकर
खड़ा हो जाता है,भगवान भी आज वैसे ही खड़े है.
भगवान केवट से बोले - भईया केवट ! मेरे अंदर का अभिमान आज टूट गया. केवट बोला - प्रभु ! क्या कह रहे है ?
भगवान बोले - सच कह रहा हूँ केवट, अभी तक मेरे अंदर अभिमान था, कि मै भक्तो को गिरने से बचाता हूँ पर आज पता चला भक्त भी भगवान को गिरने से बचाता है।

Absent-Minded?

Absence of mind doesn't mean you are careless or lacking in focus; it just means the mind is meandering through fascinating labyrinths invisible to the open eye.
"Absent minded professor syndrome" I was reminded of my history professor who, walking to next her bureaucrat husband,wearing heels on one foot and flats on the other!
Newton would forgetfully keep visitors waiting for hours, and had to be reminded to eat; Einstein too needed reminders to eat and take his classes!
Meditation and sexual climax, when all thought shuts for a while, are two extreme paths to mindlessness, Osho says you becone the Divine.
Rumi says mindlessness helps you unite with Divine.
Far from being a negative , it is desirable state that everyone can, or even should, aspire to!

I am sorry:

SORRY so common a word, its used by one and all. Strange isn't it.... you will easily say sorry to a stranger but when it comes to saying it to your loved ones, at office, home or your neighbours.... ego / attitude / anger does not let you say utter this word ! However, saying sorry to your loved ones / subordinates and people close to you, strengthens and binds the relationship ! These are the people who will stand by you always !

Once there was a man who had 3 daughters and was a single parent to his children. One morning he asked his oldest daughter, Sonia, to do the breakfast dishes before going to school.

Not realizing that she was already running late and facing too many tardy notices, he was stunned by her reaction. She burst into profuse tears. Again, misinterpreting the motive behind the outburst, assuming that she was merely trying to get out of an unpleasant chore, he demanded that she dry her tears and get back to work immediately. She reluctantly obeyed him, but her anger could be clearly heard in the careless clanking of the dishes in the sink, she turned back to her father and stared sullenly out the window.

Usually the man used to take advantage of the uninterrupted time to spend with his children while driving them to school by teaching poetry or religious verses. However that morning there was no songs- only deathly, stubborn silence.

The man dropped his daughter, mumbled a good bye and moved to office. He tried to work but couldn’t concentrate all he could see was his daughter’s scared, tear-stained face as she hesitantly climbed out of the car to face her teachers and classmates.

The man began to realize that his timing had gone wrong and with the passage of the day he began to feel remorseful. So he decided to say SORRY to his daughter and couldn’t wait till suppertime to apologize.

He took permission from the school to take his daughter for lunch and was astonished to see the surprise on her face. He led her by her arm through the corridor and as the doors banged behind them, he turned towards his daughter and said, “Sonia I am sorry. I am so very sorry! It’s not that I shouldn’t have asked you to help out at home, but I had no right on it this morning without any previous warning. I upset you at a time when you most needed my love and support- just before you went to school. And I let you go without saying ‘I love you’. I was wrong. Please forgive me.”

Sonia put her arms around her father’s neck and hugged him and said “Oh, Dad, of course I forgive you. I love you too.”

The power of these restorative words, “I am Sorry!” is such that they heal relationships – between us and our friends and loved ones and between us and God.

संतोष ही परम सुख है:

    किसी से बदला लेना बहुत आसान है मगर किसी का बदला चुकाना बहुत ही मुश्किल। उन्हें भुलाना अच्छी बात नहीं जो विपत्ति में आपका साथ दिया करते हैं। पैसों पर ज्यादा घमंड मत करना उनसे सिर्फ बिल चुकाया जा सकता है बदला नहीं।
    सब कुछ होने पर भी यदि आपको संतोष नहीं है तो फिर आपको अभाव सतायेगा और सब कुछ मिलने पर भी यदि आप चुप नहीं रह सकते तो फिर आपको स्वभाव सतायेगा। यदि फिर आपके मन में अपने पास बहुत कुछ होने का अहम आ गया तो सच मानो फिर आपको आपका ये कुभाव सतायेगा।
   दौलतवान न बन सको तो कोई बात नहीं, दिलवान और दया वान बन जाओ, आनंद ही आनंद चारों तरफ हो जायेगा।   

जिन्दगी बदलने के लिए लड़ना पड़ता है।
और आसान करने के लिए समझना पड़ता है॥   

छोटा बनके रहोगे तो मिलेगी हर रहमत प्यारों
बड़ा होने पर तो माँ भी गोद से उतार देती है॥
                                    

Two little teardrops:

Two little teardrops were floating down the river of life.

One drop said to the other, "I am the teardrop of a girl who loved a man and lost him." Who are you?

"Well, I am the teardrop of the girl who won him."

Love is very strange. Love is unconditional commitment to an imperfect individual. You need it but when you love, it's like destining yourself for pain. You become addicted and dependent on the person. You become strong and at the same time, you open yourself up to being hurt. Love can make you bear any kind of pain and any kind of sacrifice. It can also make you feel stupid and act stupidly. Sometimes when you love and end up giving so much of yourself, subconciously you only discover how much you've given when the person you love hurts you or has to say goodbye.

Then you realize, an important part of yourself is already with that person. It goes away when he leaves and you are left with a sickening, empty feeling inside.

Tears are bound to shed from your eyes no matter how you force yourself to keep them in. Most teardrops ever shed on this earth have been for love or lack of it. When tears dry, a silent loss sticks to your heart for a long, long time.

Well, that's what you get for caring so much about someone. But how can you regret it? To give yourself freely and lovingly is the most beautiful thing you can do. Loving makes you real. Loving also makes you cry.

And that is why a teardrop is also BEAUTIFUL !

Helping Hands !!!

A mother, wishing to encourage her son's progress at the piano, bought tickets to a performance by the great Polish Pianist Ignace Paderewski. When the evening arrived, they found their seats near the front of the concert hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting on the stage. Soon the mother found a friend to talk to, and the boy slipped away.

At eight o'clock, the lights in the auditorium began to dim, the spotlights came on, and only then did they notice the boy - up on the piano bench, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." His mother gasped in shock and embarassment but, before she could retrieve her son, the master himself appeared on the stage and quickly moved to the keyboard.

He whispered gently to the boy, "Don't quit. Keep playing." Leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached around the other side and improvised a delightful obligato. Together, the old master and the young novice held the crowd mesmerized with their blended and beautiful music.

In all our lives, we receive helping hands - some we notice, some we don't. Equally we ourselves have countless opportunites to provide helping hands - sometimes we would like our assistance to be noticed, sometimes we don't. Little of what we all achieve is without learning from others and without support from others and what we receive we should hand out.

The Emperor's Horseman !

Hi, Today I have posted a story which has a deep meaning. It makes me think how far one can go to to get money, power, grandeur and at what cost .... Is it really worth accumulating all this and that too at the cost of our health, family, life etc etc ???

A long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and cover as much land area as he likes, then the Emperor would give him the area of land he has covered.

Sure enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. When he was hungry or tired, he did not stop because he wanted to cover as much area as possible.

Came to a point when he had covered a substantial area and he was exhausted and was dying. Then he asked himself, "Why did I push myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself."
The above story is similar with the journey of our Life. We push very hard everyday to make more money, to gain power and recognition. We neglect our health, time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding beauty and the hobbies we love. 
Moral- One day when we look back , we will realize that we don't really need that much, but then we cannot turn back time for what we have missed....

Life is not about making money, acquiring power or recognition. Life is definitely not about work!

Life is short, energy limited, with this limited energy we have to find the unlimited; with this short life we have to find the eternal. Don't waste it with unimportant matters !!!

Be Happy and have a good and worthy life ! : ) : ) : )

Who is Happy? The Peacock & The Crow

A crow lived in the forest and was absolutely satisfied in life. But one day he saw a swan. “This swan is so white,” he thought, “and I am so black. This swan must be the happiest bird in the world.”

He expressed his thoughts to the swan. “Actually,” the swan replied, “I was feeling that I was the happiest bird around until I saw a parrot, which has two colors. I now think the parrot is the happiest bird in creation.” The crow then approached the parrot. The parrot explained, “I lived a very happy life until I saw a peacock. I have only two colors, but the peacock has multiple colors.”

The crow then visited a peacock in the zoo and saw that hundreds of people had gathered to see him. After the people had left, the crow approached the peacock. “Dear peacock,” the crow said, “you are so beautiful. Every day thousands of people come to see you. When people see me, they immediately shoo me away. I think you are the happiest bird on the planet.”

The peacock replied, “I always thought that I was the most beautiful and happy bird on the planet. But because of my beauty, I am entrapped in this zoo. I have examined the zoo very carefully, and I have realized that the crow is the only bird not kept in a cage. So for past few days I have been thinking that if I were a crow, I could happily roam everywhere.”

That’s our problem too. We make unnecessary comparison with others and become sad. We don’t value what God has given us. This all leads to the vicious cycle of unhappiness. Learn to be happy in what you have instead of looking at what you don’t have. There will always be someone who will have more or less than you have. Person who is satisfied with what he/she has, is the happiest person in the world.

Be happy and contented ! Life is short ... appreciate what you have and value the same !

The Crow and the Peacocks

There was a flight of crows in a thick forest. One day, they saw a few peacocks dancing there. One of the crows felt very jealous. He was not contented with what he had. He wanted to be as beautiful as the peacocks. He said to himself, “How beautiful they look! What lovely feathers they have! If I were a peacock, I would also have looked so beautiful”.

He soon had an idea. “Every day, I'll watch these peacocks dance and whenever any of their feathers fall, I will pick them up and keep them safely. When I have enough, I'll stick them on my tail and…….hurrah……I'll become as beautiful as a peacock!”

The grumpy crow left his friends and followed the peacocks wherever they went. He picked up each and every feather they dropped and kept them safely. One day he thought he had collected enough feathers. He stuck them inside his own feathers and danced with joy.

Next day, the grumpy crow went in search of the peacocks. He quietly crept close to them and pretended to sleep. Soon, the peacocks got ready to dance. He also joined them in the dance and sang along with them.

The peacocks soon realized that he was not one of them. Suddenly all of them stopped dancing and said, “Why do you want to act like a peacock?” The crow said, “You are so beautiful. I also want to look like you”.

The Peacocks said, “All of us have some or the other good qualities. You may not look good, but you have an intelligent brain which we don't have. So be satisfied with what you are.”

The grumpy crow went home to join his friends. The oldest and the wisest crow said to him, “Son, you have learnt your lesson. You may not be as the beautiful as a peacock or as strong as a lion, but everyone loves you just as you are. So, just be yourself ."

Moral of the story: We should respect and love ourselves as we are and be happy.

Dear Parents

Help your child understand the values learnt from the story.

• Be contented.
• Contentment is happiness.
• I am the best gift that I have received.
• I am precious.
• I am special.
• I am unique.
• I have something special to give.
• I will remain in charge of my happiness.

What we are is God’s gift to us and what we became is our gift to God.”