Sunday, March 15, 2009

karma

Once there in 1987 lived a man named shankar pillai who lived his life selling hats..his was a job which was not perinnial he had to run from post to pillars to sell hats . the best time for his sales was during summer when the scorchung sun would not let anyone get out without a hat .so one such day our shankaran pillai went seling his hats and by noon wen the sun was was at its best emitting heat ray,he settled down under the shadow of a tree opened his pack of lunch and ate ,feeling tired now he carefully placed the hat next to him and slept .
when he woke up he din't find his hats, worried , he looked around the place but found nothing then he looked up he saw all monkeys over there had his hat perfectly placed on their heads , not knowing wat to do he cried at the monkeys he yelled and shouted, the monkeys in return yelled,shouted and cried back .. he threw stones at those monkeys and in return they threw what ever they could fetch. Disgusted shankaran pillai flunked his hat hard on the ground, the very next second the monkeys too flunked thier hat down and pillai happily picked it up and ran away
In 2007 there happened to live another shankaran pillai (the grand son of our old pillai )who lived selling hats and on one fine summmer pillai slept under a tree and when he woke up there was no hat . he quickly looked up he saw monkeys holding the hats .. but this time pillai had all the fun he wanted with the monkey before trying the last trick .. he made funny faces , the monkeys made funnier faces and he imitated the monkeys and monkeys imitated him and finnally he flunked his hat hard on the ground the very next second a baboon descended down and took the hat and walked upto pillai and gave him a tight slap and muttered "u think only u had grandfathers "

gross meaning : dont be repetative

moral: the results of same action would not fetch u the same fruit in a karmic cycle

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Heaven and Hell (spirituality)

Heaven and Hell
A man ,his horse and his dog were travelling down a road . when they were passing by a gigantic tree ,a bolt of lightening struck and they all fell dead on spot.
But the man did not realise tat they already left the world , they kept walking wit 2 animals (some times the dead take time to understand their condition) the journey was very long ,uphill and the sun was scorching and they were covered with sweat and they were very thirsty. They desperatly needed some water.
At a point they came across a bend in the road they spotted a magnificient gateway ,
all in marble,
which led to a square paved with blocks of gold and with a fountain in centred that spouted forth crystalline water with honey and milk.
the traveller went upto a man gaurding the gate
"good morning"
"good morning",answered the man.
"wat is this beautiful place"?
"this is heaven"
"how good to have reached , we're very thirsty"
"you can come in and quench ur thirst ", responded the gaurd pointing the fountain"
my horse and my dog are thirsty too"
"sorry we dont allow animals in here"the man was very dis appointed b'cos his thirst was great , but he could not drink alone;he thanked the man and went on his way.

After travelling a lot,they reached a farm exhausted , the entrance had an old wooden door that open onto three dirt road .a man lying down in the shadow of one of the trees , looked like a gaurd resting
"good morning"said the traveller the man lying nodded"
"we're very thirsty -me ,my horse and my dog".
"there is a spring over in those stones "pointing the spot "drink as much as u like".
the man, the horse and the dog went to the spring and quenched their thirst.
then the traveller went back to thank the gaurd."by the way ,wats this place called ?"
"heaven".
"heaven? but the gaurd at the marble gate said that was the heaven."
"that's not heaven,that's hell"the traveller was puzzled.
"you've got to stop this! all this false information must cause enormous confusion"

the man smiled :"not at all . as a matter of fact they do us a great favour.b'cos over there stay all those who are even capable of abondoning their best pals and loved ones.."


moral : spirituality and faith to god is parallel to love and affection to fellow being.