Love Genuinely and Deeply
A boy and a girl were deeply infatuated with one another. They celebrated all occasions with great enthusiasm and soon, it was time for Christmas. Both were too poor to supply anything as Christmas gifts to at least one another. However, they decided to do something about it.
The only precious possession the girl had was her long, golden hair. The boy’s only possession was a watch with a worn-out strap. The girl sold her golden hair and purchased a strap for his watch and also the boy sold his watch
and got two combs for her lovely hair.
When Christmas came, they exchanged their gifts and laughed at the irony of life.
QUESTIONS
1. What was the irony of life?
2. what's the implication of this story
?
ANSWERS
1. There was no wait for the strap and no hair for the comb.
2. They came forward to sell off their most precious possessions for the sake of affection. The self-sacrificing love which they exhibited was absolutely priceless. People normally offer worldly gifts to each other. But there's no gift greater than true love.
Never Ever Discriminate
There was a time when racism was at its worst and black people the globe over, were looked down upon. there have been terrible death threats given to black people and that they constantly lived in fear. Amid this, there was a church that had a Black man for a priest.
He would regularly conduct masses for one and all and was loved and respected by many. Once, the church was attacked by a couple of miscreants who had begun to burn it down because it was traveled by a black priest. because the mob approached to harm the priest, he calmly
stepped back and said…
QUESTIONS
1. What did the black priest tell the miscreants?
2. what's the implication of this story?
ANSWERS
1. If you do not like me because I'm ignorant, I can be sent to high school and be educated. If you do not like me because I'm dirty, I will be taught to scrub and be clean. If you do not like me owing to my unsocial habits, I can be taught a way to sleep in society. But if you do not like me
because of the color of my skin, I can only refer you to God who made me.”
2. The color of the skin is something we are born with and can't be changed at will. Therefore, it can't be an excuse for people to discriminate.”
How does one Measure Your Growth?
Sameer, who was in college, considered himself fully grown-up. Enjoying college life to the hilt, he smoked, drank, and flirted around with girls.
He believed these were his greatest conquests of adulthood. nightly, he would return home late and lie shamelessly to his father when questioned.
One night, when Sameer returned home late another time, his father gently put his arm around his shoulders and asked him, “Son, when do you consider an individual to be grown-up?”
Sameer couldn't answer that smoking and drinking made one grown-up. Observing his silence, his father told him…
QUESTIONS
1. What did the daddy tell his son?
2. what's the implication of this story?
ANSWERS
1. A person might be considered grown-up the day he realizes the futility of telling lies to anyone about anything.
2. Telling lies could be a sign of an immature mind. Moreover, it's cowardice. Truth demands courage, and courage implies being a grown-up.
Derive Bliss By Reducing Your Wants
There lived a woodcutter in a village. He was not able to make both ends meet by cutting trees in the nearby forest and selling the wood in the town.
One day, he saw a monk meditating at the edge of the forest where he used to cut trees. He decided to approach the monk to get his advice to earn more money.
When the monk opened his eyes from meditation, the woodcutter asked him ways to earn more. The monk advised him to go a little deeper into the forest so that he would be able to earn one month’s food by working only for one day.
As suggested, the woodcutter went into the forest and found sandalwood trees. By cutting them, he was able to earn much more than what he would normally earn. He approached the monk and thanked him for his valuable advice.
The monk told him that if he could go still deeper into the forest, he would be able to earn much more than what he earned now.
The woodcutter went deeper into the forest and found a silver mine. He brought the treasure and again met the monk and thanked him.
Once again, the monk advised him to go still deeper where he could get the real treasure and there would be no need for him to work anymore. The woodcutter followed the monk’s advice and found a gold mine.
He was immensely happy. Once again, he met the monk and expressed his profound gratitude to him for guiding him to such fabulous treasures.
The woodcutter also wondered why the monk himself didn’t go into the deep forest and get the treasures as he knew about them.
He asked the monk, Why did you not venture into the forest yourself when you knew that such treasures existed in the deep forest? To which the monk replied…
QUESTIONS
1. What was the monk, S reply?
2. What is the implication of this story
?
ANSWERS
1. The monk replied The treasures that you got will satisfy you only for a specific period. If you want to be eternally happy you have to sit and make an inward journey, as I have been doing.
2. Enduring happiness can be derived not by greedily running after material wealth, but by reducing our wants further and further.
This heightened form of bliss is called the ‘Samadhi’ stage in Yoga. Swami Shivananda describes ‘Samadhi’ as a desireless stage. Bliss comes when there is no desire.
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