The Hunchback and The Chapatti !!!

A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”
This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?”
One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him! As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”
The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.
That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!”
As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!
It was then that she realized the significance of the words “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”
Moral -
Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time. The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. -Gandhi
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James

ज्ञान ही जीबन का यथार्थ है:

एक जौहरी था उसके देहांत के बाद उसके परिवार पर बहुत बड़ा सन्कट आ गया।खाने के भी लाले पड गए एक दिन उसकी पत्नी न अपने बेटे को एक नीलम का हार दे कर कहा बेटा इसे अपने चाचा की दुकान पर लेकर जाओ और कहना कि इसे बेच कर कुछ रुपए दो वह उस हार को लेकर चाचा जी के पास गया। चाचा जी ने हार को अच्छी तरह से देख परख कर कहा कि बेटा अपनी माँ से कहना कि अभी बाज़ार बहुत मन्दा हैं थोड़ा रुककर बेचना अच्छे दाम मिलेगे और थोड़े से रुपये देकर कहा कि तुम कल से दुकान पर आ कर बैठना। अगले दिन से वह लड़का रोज दुकान पर जाने लगा और वहां पर हीरो की परख करने लगा एक दिन वह हीरो का बहुत बड़ा पारखी बन गया लोग दूर दूर से अपने हीरो की परख कराने आने लगे।एक दिन उसके चाचा जी ने कहा कि बेटा अपनी माँ से वह हार लेकर आना और कहना कि अब बाज़ार बहुत तेज है उसके अब अच्छे दाम मिल जाएगे ।बेटा हार लेने घर गया और मा से हार लेकर परख कर देखा कि यह तो artificial हैं और उसको घर पर ही छोड़ कर वापस लौट आया तो चाचा जी ने पूछा कि हार नहीं लाए तो उसने कहा कि वह हार तो नकली था। तब चाचा जी ने कहा कि जब पहली बार लेकर आए थे अगर मैं उस समय हार को नकली बताता तो तुम सोचते कि आज हम पर बुरा वक्त आया तो हमारी चीज़ को नकली बताने लगे आज जब तुम्हें खुद ज्ञान हो गया तो पता चल गया कि यह नकली हैं इससे हमें यही शिक्षा मिलती है कि ज्ञान के बिना इस सन्सार मे हम जो भी सोचते हैं देखते हैं जानते हैं सब गलत है अगर हम दुखि हैं या अभाव ग्रस्त है तो इसका एक ही कारण है अज्ञानता अज्ञान के ही कारण डर हैं सब कुछ पाना आसान है दुर्लभ है सन्सार मे एक यथार्थ ज्ञान।

A Sense of a Goose !

"Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever." Native American proverb

Every Autumn, when you see geese heading south for the winter, flying in a "V" formation, you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going more quickly and easily, because they are travelling on the thrust of one another.

When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front. 
If we have the sense of a goose, we will stay in formation with those people who are heading the same way we are.

When the head goose gets tired, it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. 
It is sensible to take turns doing demanding jobs, whether with people or with geese flying south.

Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. 
What message do we give when we honk from behind?

Finally - and this is important - when a goose gets sick or is wounded by gunshot, and falls out of the formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly or until it dies; and only then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation to catch up with their own group. 
If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that.

Love and Time

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 Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.

Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, 
"Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!"
"I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked, "Sadness, let me go with you."
"Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her. 

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way.

Realizing how much was owed to the elder, Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who Helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"

Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."

True love endures all hardships, obstacles, and withstands the test of time through it all. Where true love is present there is trust. True love still stands when all else has failed. You also learn you can endure more than you ever thought possible.

Success ~ Silence~Smile

Strength from Adversity !!!

Hi, Today I have posted a story which gives us a clear insight that every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one's condition !
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!
Lessons to be learnt :

• When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
• Nothing in life is always smooth-sailing nor goes according to plan, hardships are there to mould us into stronger individuals.
• Life is constantly about overcoming challenges, it's only through tough times that we became more resilient

I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom.........
And God gave me Problems to solve.
I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.
I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.
I asked for Love.........
And God gave me Troubled people to help.
I asked for Favors.........
And God gave me Opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted ........
I received everything I needed!
Have a great life ! Be Happy !

Love Vs Ego:

Hi, A very short story but with a powerful Moral.

Sometimes love is for a moment, sometimes love is for a lifetime, Sometimes a moment is a lifetime !”

Once upon a time there was an island, where all the feelings lived together .

One day there was a storm in the sea and the island was about to get drowned.
Every feeling was scared but Love made a boat to escape.

Every feeling boarded the boat . Only one feeling was left.
Love got down to see who it was…

It was EGO..
Love tried and tried but ego wasn’t moving also the water was rising.

Every one asked love to leave him and come in the boat, but love was
made to love.

At last all the feelings escape and Love dies with ego on the island..

Love Dies because of EGO ..

So, Kill ego and Save Love

The story ends like that with its moral loud and clear, ego is bad ! Ego kills the most amazing thing about being a human, the desire to evolve in character as well as in thought !