Story of the Day #15 | Of The Day

The Master and The Tiger

      A teacher and his student were walking from one village to another, when they suddenly heard a roar behind them. Turning their gaze in the direction of the roar, they saw a big tiger following them. The first thing the student wanted to do was to run away, but since he has been studying and practicing self-discipline, he was able to halt himself from running, and wait to see what his teacher would do.

“What shall we do Master?” Asked the student.

      The teacher looked at the student and answered in a calm voice: “There are several options. We can fill our minds with paralyzing fear so that we cannot move, and let the tiger do with us whatever pleases it. We can faint. We can run away, but then it will run after us. We can fight with it, but physically it is stronger than us.”

      “We can pray to god to save us. We can choose to influence the tiger with the power of our mind, if our concentration is strong enough. We can send it love. We can also concentrate and meditate on our inner power, and on the fact that we are one with the entire universe, including the tiger, and in this way influence its soul.”

“Which option do you choose?”

      “You are the Master. You tell me what to do. We don’t have much time.” The student responded.

      The master turned his gaze fearlessly towards the tiger, emptied his mind from all thoughts, and entered a deep state of meditation. In his consciousness, he embraced everything in the universe, including the tiger. In this state the consciousness of the teacher became one with consciousness of the tiger. Meanwhile the student started to shiver with fear, as the tiger was already quite close, ready to make a leap at them. He was amazed at how his teacher could stay so calm and detached in the face of danger. Meanwhile the teacher continued to meditate without fear. After a little while, the tiger gradually lowered its head and tail and went away.

The student asked his teacher in astonishment, “What did you do?”

      “Nothing. I just cleared all thoughts from my mind and united myself in spirit with the tiger. We became united in peace on the spiritual level. The tiger sensed the inner calmness, peace, and unity and felt no threat or need to express violence, and so walked away.”

      “When the mind is silent and calm, its peace is automatically transmitted to everything and everyone around, influencing them deeply”, concluded the teacher.

      One must have a calm mind and concentrated thoughts, then things will just get sorted out and we can achieve success. 

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Thought of the Day #61 | Of The Day

"Take Risks In Your Life"

If You Win, You Can Lead!

If You Loose, You Can Guide!

Story of the Day #14 | Of The Day

Out of Box📦

      Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town🌆, a merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s beautiful daughter👧 so he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgot the merchant’s debt if he could marry the daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal.

      The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag.If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.

      They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant’s garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her pebble from the bag.

What would you have done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you have told her? Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:

1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble. 

2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the moneylender as a cheat.

3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.

The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking.

      The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

      “Oh, how clumsy of me,” she said. “But never mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.” Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dared not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an advantageous one.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Most complex problems do have a solution, sometimes we have to think about them in a different way.

Thinking "Out of Box" Never be hopeless !

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Thought of the Day #60 | Of The Day

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. 

Then I ask myself the same question.

Story of the Day #13 | Of The Day

The Proud Rose🌹

      One beautiful spring day🌅, a red rose🌷 bloomed in a forest. Many kinds of trees 🎋and plants grew there. As the rose looked around, a pine🍍 tree nearby said, “What a beautiful flower. I wish I was that lovely.” Another tree said, “Dear pine, do not be sad, we cannot have everything.”

-The rose turned its head and remarked, “It seems that I am the most beautiful plant in this forest.”

-A sunflower🌻 raised its yellow head and asked, “Why do you say that? In this forest there are many beautiful plants. You are just one of them.”

-The red rose replied, “I see everyone looking at me and admiring me.” Then the rose looked at a cactus🌵 nearby and said, “Look at that ugly plant full of thorns!”

-The pine tree said, “Red rose, what kind of talk is this? Who can say what beauty is? You have thorns too.”

      The proud red rose looked angrily at the pine and said, “I thought you had good taste! You do not know what beauty is at all. You cannot compare my thorns to that of the cactus.”

“What a proud flower”, thought the trees.

      The rose tried to move its roots away from the cactus, but it could not move. As the days passed, the red rose would look at the cactus and say insulting things, like “you are useless! How sorry I am to be your neighbor”…

      The cactus never got upset😩 and he even tried to advise the rose, saying, “God did not create any form of life without a purpose.”

      Spring passed, and the weather became very warm. Life❤ became difficult in the forest, as the plants and animals needed water🌊 and no rain fell. The red rose began to wilt. One day the rose saw sparrows stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly away, refreshed. This was puzzling, and the red rose asked the pine tree what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that the birds got water from the cactus. “Does it not hurt when they make holes?” asked the rose.

“Yes, but the cactus does not like to see any birds suffer,” replied the pine.

The rose opened its eyes👀 in wonder and said, “The cactus has water?”

“Yes you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help.”

      The red rose felt too ashamed of its past words and behavior to ask for water from the cactus, but then it finally did ask the cactus for help. The cactus kindly agreed and the birds filled their beaks with water and watered the rose’s roots. Thus the rose learnt a lesson and never judged anyone by their appearance again!

Never judge anyone by their appearance.

Appearances are deceptive.

We can know a person only by their actions and not by their looks. 

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Thought of the Day #59 | Of The Day

When the past calls, let it go to voice mail. It has nothing new to say.

Story of the Day #12 | Of The Day

I am because, we are!

The motivation behind name given to Ubuntu Operating System.

      An Anthropologist proposed one game to the African🗺 tribal children. He placed a basket of sweets and Candy's near a tree🌳. And made them stand 100 meters away. And announced that whoever reaches first would get all the sweets in the basket. When he said ready steady go... 

      Do you know what these small children did? They all held each other's hands👬 and ran towards the tree together, divided the sweets among them and ate the sweets and enjoyed it. When the Anthropologist asked them why you did so? They said 'Ubuntu'.

Which meant - 'How can one be happy when all the others are sad?'

Ubuntu in their language means - 'I am because, we are!'

      A message for all generations. Let all of us always carry this attitude within us and spread happiness, wherever we go... 

Let's have a Ubuntu Life... I am because we are..!!

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Thought of the Day #58 | Of The Day

Silence isn't empty. It's full of answers.

Story of the Day #11 | Of The Day

Value of Life💙

      A man👨 went to a Guru and asked, "What's the value of life?💛". The Guru gave him a stone💎 and said, "Find out the value of this stone, but don't sell it."

      The man took the stone to an Orange Seller and asked him what its cost would be. The Orange Seller saw the shiny stone and said, "You can take 12 oranges and give me the stone." The man apologized and said that the guru has asked him not to sell it.

      He went ahead and found a vegetable seller. "What could be the value of this stone?" he asked the vegetable seller. The seller saw the shiny stone and said, "Take one sack of potatoes and give me the stone." The man again apologized and said he can't sell it.

      Further ahead, he went into a jewelry shop and asked the value of the stone. The jeweler saw the stone under a lens🔎 and said, "I'll give you 50 Lakhs💰 for this stone. “When the man shook his head, the jeweler said, "Alright, alright, take 2 crores, but give me the stone." The man explained that he can't sell the stone.

      Further ahead, the man saw a precious stone's shop and asked the seller the value of this stone. When the precious stone's seller saw the big ruby, he lay down a red cloth and put the ruby on it. Then he walked in circles around the ruby and bent down and touched his head in front of the ruby. "From where did you bring this priceless ruby from?" he asked. "Even if I sell all my things and my life, I won't be able to purchase this priceless stone.

      Stunned and confused, the man returned to the guru and told him what had happened. "Now tell me what is the value of life, guruji?" Guru said, "The answers you got from the Orange Seller, the Vegetable Seller, the Jeweler & the Precious Stone's Seller explain the value of our life... 

      You may be a precious stone, even priceless, but people will value you based on their financial status, their level of information, their belief in you, their motive behind entertaining you, their ambition, and their risk taking ability. But don't fear, you will surely find someone who will discern your true value." Respect yourself. You are Unique. No one can Replace you!

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Thought of the Day #57 | Of The Day

Be BRAVE. Even if you're not, pretend to be.