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Short
Stories
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::- TO ACCUSE IS EASY
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WHAT IS APPARENT? WHAT IS PERCEIVED? -:: |
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A member
of the opposition party was accusing he ministers of the ruling party
of corruption. After some time the opposition party came into power.
A journalist asked, “Minister Sir! When you were in power you
charged many ministers of corruption. What is your state now? “The
minister replied. “Then I was the accusing one. Today I am experiencing
the pain of being a target. “
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A guide took them through a tour of the whole museum. Finally when everybody
was going out, he asked if there were any questions.
One visitor said, “Yes. I have.”
“Then please ask.”
“In which room was the museum? I did not see it anywhere.”
Till the eye of wisdom is opened. Will not even the apparent look invisible?
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::- LOOGIC’S LIMITATION -:: |
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::- HOLISTIC VIEW LEADS
TO THE RIGHT DECISION -:: |
It was summer and a child came back from school and stood under the
sun. The mother asked, “Why are you standing here?”
I am drying my sweat, “replied the child.
“Under such severs sun, how will your sweat dry up?”
“When you can dry wet clothes in the sun, then why can I not dry
my sweat?”
Logic does not hold everywhere. It has its limitations. The one who
does not know its limitations, will use it where it is not applicable.
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“Mother, I want to become a teacher when I grow up, “resolved
the boy.
“Then you will have to work very hard.”
“No, no. “Mother, you have not gone to school and so you do
not know. Only students work hard, not the teachers. The teachers just
ask questions.”
The one who sees only the present and not the future cannot take a balanced
decision.
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::- MEMORY AND FORGETFULNESS -:: |
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The doctor asked, “How is your memory these days? Has it improved?
Are you taking your medicines regularly?”
“Yes, yes doctor, there are some changes. Earlier I was totally
forgetful. Now the change is that I know I have forgotten something, but
what it is I can not recollect.”
There are many aspects of memory and forgetfulness and one cannot specify
the right mix of the two that will be useful.
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This is an age-old story. A five year old had his pencil and paper poised
to write, before him. The father asked, “Son! what are you doing?”
“Father, I am writing to my friend.”
“Do you know how to write?”
“So what if I do not know how to write. My friend does not know
how to read either.” Both the teacher and the student are ignorant.
How will they tide over problems then?
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::- WHAT IS DIFFICULT? -:: |
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::- STRANGE FORGETFULNESS-:: |
Two friends were conversing. One said, “My husband con not even
read the letter that comes for use.”
“What is so amazing about that? My husband con not even read what
he writes.” In this world there are many who cannot decipher another
person’s destiny. That is not surprising. What is surprising is
that they cannot even understand their own destiny.
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Three friends were conversing. One said, “My husband were conversing.
One said, “My husband is forgetful. If somebody asks him what he
ate for lunch, he would not be able to tell.”
The second lady said, “I told my husband to get vegetables from
the market. He went, but came back without them. When I asked him, he
said that he had forgotten why he had gone to the market.”
The third one said, “One day I was going out with my friends when
I saw my husband walking with my friends when I saw my husband walking
with his friends. He stopped, looked at me and said,” Sister I have
seen you somewhere. “Just as memory is an amazing ability, forgetfulness
is an amazing disability.
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FORGETTING THE REMINDER NOTE -:: |
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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? -:: |
The grandmother said, “Son, I am not able to remember all that I
have to do in the course of the day.”
“Grandmother, I will find a solution for you,” said the grandson.
“What will you do?”
“I will write down your routine on a piece of paper”.
“Oh good. Good.”
He did as he had promised and in the evening asked his grandmother if
she had done all her chores.
“No No.”
“Why?”
“O son, how to tell you ! I kept the paper somewhere and forgot.
The what could I do.”
If one forgets even where the scheme of work has been planned, then how
can the right action be taken? By forgetting the page of work in the book
of our life, can we even think of righteous planning?
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The
teacher asked, “what is the difference between the light of the
sun and that from electricity?”
The students replied that the sun’s light comes free of change while
electricity has to be paid for. This is the difference between the natural
and the artificial. That which is natural is and the artificial. That
which is natural is invaluable. There is no difference between the rich
and the poor here. Amongst the artificial, this difference does exist
and therefore money is of value here.
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