Story of Father and a Crow !

Welcome to 113^th  Monday Musings:

Sunday, June 15, 2014 is ‘Father’s Day’ so I am sending the musing in advance dedicating to Father’s day

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An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"

The Son replied "It is a crow".

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"

The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time,

What is this?"

At this time some expression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow, a crow".

A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, "What is this?"

This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?"

A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-

"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".

While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times

and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.

Moral of the story :

If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents. From today say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me.

They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today".

Make it a great Week & Happy Father’s Day!

Shailesh

Eagles In A Storm !

Welcome to 112^th Monday Musings:

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                                                                        (Photo courtesy : +Prashant Mudgal)

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? 

The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. 

When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. 

While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it. 

The eagle does not escape the storm,   it simply uses the storm to lift it higher. 

It rises on the winds that bring the storm.

Moral of the story :

Problem is common to all but the attitude to solve the problem makes all the difference!

When the storms of life come upon us - and all of us will experience them - we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God.

The storms do not have to overcome us. 

We can allow God's power to lift us above them.  God enables failure and disappointment in our lives. 

We can soar above the storm. 

Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down, it is how we handle them.

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

The Value Of A Mother !

Welcome to 111^th  Monday Musings:

Sunday, May 11, 2014 is ‘Mother’s Day’ so I am sending the musing in advance dedicating to mother’s day

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After having reached at the peak of his career a man felt an urge to repay back to his mother for all that she had done for him.

So he asked her, "Mother, what can I give you ?  What can I do for you ? I sincerely want to repay you for all the sacrifices you have made for me and for all the love you have showered upon me."

Mother looked surprised and said, "Why do you think about it. It was my duty so I did it, you don’t have to repay me. Even if you want to, there is no way a man can ever repay his mother."

Despite her continuous refusal to ask for anything, he continued to persist. To put an end to the discussion, she said, "All right. If you must, then tonight you sleep on my bed, with me, just as you used to when you were a baby."

He said, "That’s a strange thing to ask for, but if it pleases you, I will."

As soon as he fell asleep, the mother got up and brought a bucket of water.

She poured a mug full of water on his side.

Feeling disturbed by the wetness under him, in his sleep he moved away to the other side of the bed.

As he settled down,

his mother poured another mug of water on the other side.

In his slumber he tried to find space towards the foot post of the bed. Sometime later he woke up feeling that this part of the bed too was damp.

He got up and saw his mother, with the mug in her hand.

He asked angrily, "What are you doing mother? Why don’t you let me sleep? How do you expect me to sleep on a wet bed ?"

Mother said, I slept with you, when you wetted the bed in the night. I changed your nappy and moved you to the dry part of the bed, while I slept on the wet side.

You wanted to repay me. Can you sleep here even for one night with me on a damp bed?

If you can, I’ll take it that you have repaid me.

Moral of the story :

How true it is that of all the debts in the world, the one that can never be repaid is the one you owe to our mother.

We can never repay the love, care and time our mother gave to bring us up. We are a part of her flesh and blood, we should don’t forget this, because she never ever forgets it.

"There is nothing as beautiful as our mother in this world"

”M” is for the Million things she gave me,

“O” means Only that she’s growing old,

”T”  is for the Tears she shed to save me,

”H” is for her Heart of gold,

”E” is for her Eyes with love-light shining in them,

”R” means Right, and right she’ll always be,

Put them all together, they spell ”MOTHER”,

To My Mother

For all the times you gently picked me up,

When I fell down,

For all the times you tied my shoes

And tucked me into bed,

Or needed something

But put me first instead.

For everything we shared,

The dreams, the laughter,

And the tears,

I love you with a "Special Love"

That deepens every year.

Make it a great Week & Happy Mother’s day in advance !

Shailesh

Triple Filter Test !

Welcome to 110^th Monday Musings:

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In ancient Greece , Socrates (469 - 399 BC) was widely lauded for his wisdom.

One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, " Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students? "

" Wait a moment ", Socrates replied, " Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

" Triple Filter ? "

" That's right ", Socrates continued, " Before you talk to me about my student, let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say.

The first filter is Truth. 

Are you absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true? "

" No ", the man said, " Actually I just heard about it and..."

" Alright ", said Socrates, " So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter –

The filter of Goodness.

Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good ? "

" No, on the contrary...."

" So ", Socrates continued, " You want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain if it's true ? "

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued, " You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter –

The filter of Usefulness.

Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me ? "

" No, not  really..."

" Well ", concluded Socrates, " If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all ? "

The man was defeated and ashamed.

This is the reason why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

Moral of the story :

1.    Always speak only if it is Truth

2.    Speak only if something is for goodness

3.    Talk if something is Useful

Or Else it will be wastage of Time & Energy. Imagine how different the world would be if we only chose to seek or create information that was true, good, or useful.

Next time someone starts to spread gossip, think of this !

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

Love and Ego !

Welcome to 109^th Monday Musings:

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

One day there was a storm in the sea and the island was about to get drowned.

Every feeling was scared,  Love was not scared and Love made a boat to escape .

Every feeling boarded the boat,  Only 1 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 !

Moral of the story :

Never let your love die because of your EGO

Argument wins the situations but loses the person.

So when argue with your loved ones,

remember that situations is never more important than your loved ones.....

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

The Stuck Truck - Creativity makes anything Possible !

Welcome to 108^th Monday Musings:

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There was an accident - a big truck got stuck under a bridge in the middle of a road.

It was trying to pass through the bridge, but a few inches got it complete stuck.

Firemen and policemen came to the scene of the accident.

They brought heavy equipment and tried pulling the truck out. No success.

Along comes a little boy and asks one of the policemen what is happening.

The policeman explained that the truck got stuck and that they trying to pull it out, but nothing is working.

The little boy stepped in to have a better look and after a few moments said "Why don’t you take the air out of the tires?"

The policeman was stunned at the suggestion.

A group of grown men couldn’t figure out something that a little boy found naturally in a few minutes.

The story goes that the policeman run to his team and they were able to pull the truck out within the next few minutes.

Moral of the story :

Such is the power of natural creativity. When we are born, we have pure minds where anything is possible.

As we grow older, We accumulate so much mental baggage of  things we can do and of things we cannot do, eventually we create a mental block.

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

Remember: Sometimes a block comes from having too much, not too little.

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh

The Dog in the Well !

Welcome to 107^th Monday Musings:

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In old times, there was a village having only one well for drinking water.

One day a dog fell down in the well and died. The water became filthy and undrinkable. 

The worried villagers went to the old wise man for advice.

They were told to take 100 buckets of water from the well so that clean water come to the surface of the well.

The villagers took 100 buckets but water status was same.

They went to the wise man again. He suggested to take another 100 buckets.

The villagers did the same but to no avail. They villagers tried third time to take another 100 buckets as per the advice from the wise man but water was still impure.

The wise said, How come the whole well is polluted even removing this much considerable amount of water. Did you remove the dog body prior to taking 300 buckets of water?

The villagers said, "no sir, you only advised us to take water out, not the dog body !!!"

Moral of the story :

Several times in life we try to resolve our problems without considering the root cause of the problems.

We believe that we are resolving the problem whereas in actual we are working on the side effects of problem not the problem itself. We don't see the big picture to understand the root of the issue.  We take advice from our well-wishers but do not use our brain to think logically to analyze the advice and then decide, instead, we start acting blindly on the solutions suggested by others.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Remember:

Make it a great Week !

Shailesh