Category: Children’s

It is about the greed and it’s consequences on human relations.

A boy named Raghav was born in a middle class family in a small town in Bangalore.     As he grew, he wanted expensive toys and clothes. He wanted to eat in expensive restaurants, and have a luxurious car to travel. But due to the only income of his father, the family always had to compromise. His mother told about how hard his father worked to turn his status from poor to a middle class family.

She told her that his grandfather was not as supportive to his father as his father was to him. His grandfather wanted his father to work in his fields, grow plants & cut crops in the season of harvesting. He managed to study by himself along with doing the field work as per his grandfather’s wishes. He passed the government examination for bank in his fifth attempt and became a clerk in a government bank.

His salary was not enough to satisfy his family’s all needs. His mother was understanding as she had seen how his husband worked hard to change his days. He didn’t care for what he himself wanted. He would rather think of getting something bigger and better for his son.He had even got Raghav’s admission in a good school, spent on his tuition fees and also did a part time job in order to make his son’s future bright.

Hearing all this from his mother, Raghav thought of working harder than his father. Since his demands were not fulfilled, he decided to work as hard as he could to become a rich businessman and live a lifestyle as that of rich high class society people.

He thought to himself of how could he do this. And a voice from within said to do something successful people do. He read Steve Job’s biography, Ratan Tata’s journey & many such entrepreneurs who worked day and night to make their future bright. He started doing marketing internships to improve his skills. This helped him a lot in working towards his dreams and turning them into reality. He became ambitious.

He did his schooling from  the same school and graduated from a government college in Bangalore. During his graduation, he learned more business skills. He filled an application to go to the USA for MBA. His application was approved and he went there.

Raghav , after graduating from a college in Bangalore went to the USA for higher studies. He completed MBA from USA while doing a part time job along with his studies. He learned the business skills and techniques from the top businessmen in many workshops. After his MBA and studies, he worked in multinational company as the manager. He earned  lot in that company. Then he thought of expanding his own business in India. With the same thought, he came back to India and started with a small business in sports products. Gradually, his business expanded in Bangalore as well as many metro cities of India.

His business expanded more and more. He hired many employees in his company. They had their own brand name now. He had his own MNC in Chennai, New Delhi and Mumbai including his own city & stores in every mall of the cities and thus he became one of the top young entrepreneurs in India who inspired many youths.

During all this, he got married to  beautiful Lady named Radha. After two years of marriage, she gave birth to twins. Both were little naughty but cute. As Raghav was rich now, he looked forward to his sons not lacking anything. They both had expensive toys, they used to have monthly trips to the USA, the UK and around the world too.

They studied in an expensive school, grew up to be richer than they were born since the business expanded with a great speed. Raghav had all the skills one needs to run a successful business. Growing in such an atmosphere, his both sons became greedy.

Both of them didn’t study rather waste their father’s each penny earned with so much hard work and dedication to make his son’s lives easier than he had. Each of them grew jealous of one another. They wanted money & property. Both demanded their shares in the entire property of their father.

Both of them got equal part of the property. But Raghav and his wife were left with nothing except sorrow, grief and loneliness. Both sons  got their houses that were no more a home   without parents and money but none agreed to keep Raghav and his wife with him. They were left alone in a big house. His wife died due to the disputes of her sons for the property. She couldn’t live with that pain in her heart. Now he was left all alone in that house. Then he realized what his father used to tell him. He told him that time is money. He would have spend some time with his sons teaching him the proper need of money. He realized that there’s nothing that can satisfy one’s greed. Only need can be satisfied.

His sons had  their own business which  was not as successful as his father’s business. They could not realize their mistakes until their deeds came back to them.  They had the taste of their own medicines .Hence time passes and one learns so many mysterious facts about life.

Once in jungle there lived a Monkey with his family. A father monkey, a mother monkey and a baby monkey. Nearby the same jungle there was a river. In that river there was a crocodile. The crocodile and its family were all alone.

As we all know that crocodile is very harmful and it can harm us to a very great extent. So likewise the monkey and his family were also very afraid of the crocodile. But one day when the monkey and his family was sitting on the banana tree the crocodile came under the tree and stared at the monkey. The monkey was very afraid and started jumping from one tree to another tree. The crocodile was also following him and finally when the monkey stopped jumping from the trees the crocodile who was staring the monkey now started to talking with him. The crocodile shared with monkey that the crocodile is alone and wants to do friendship with the monkey and his family. The monkey was all shocked but then the monkey did friendship with the crocodile.

Now as the monkey and crocodile became friends the monkey was now not afraid of the crocodile and they have now become good friends. Every day the crocodile came to monkey and they would share the things with each other, play with each other and have fun. The monkey would climb the trees and throw the banana’s down. The crocodile would have the bananas. The monkey also would give some bananas for the crocodile’s family. The crocodile would than take the banana’s home and give it to the family. They would happily have it.

One day the crocodile and its wife had an evil thought in their mind. The bananas are so sweet, if the monkey and its family members are having the bananas everyday their heart must be much sweeter than the banana’s. So they decide to kill the monkey and its family member one by one and eat their heart. So the crocodile and the family thought of a plan.  They will call the monkey home by some way or the other and kill him and then likewise they will kill all the family members.

So one day when the crocodile went to the monkey while they both were having banana’s the crocodile invited monkey at their place and said to come with the crocodile. Monkey was little confused and told the crocodile that how can the monkey come to their place as he can’t swim and the place where the crocodile lives is on the other side of the river. Crocodile said monkey not to worry as he will carry him on his back. Monkey thought for a while and agreed. The Monkey sat on crocodiles back and they both swam the river, while they were crossing the river, the crocodile said the monkey that they are going to kill the monkey and are going to eat the heart as it is so sweet like the banana’s that they are having every day. So monkey was very much afraid and thought of a plan. After some time Monkey said the crocodile that he can’t have his heart as it is on the branch of a tree. The monkey said the crocodile to take him back and then they can have the monkey’s heart and come back. The crocodile agreed and they both went back.

When they reached banana tree the monkey hastily climbed the tree and asked the crocodile to leave as now their friendship is broken. He trusted him so much. He was like a true friend to him but by doing this he has broken his trust and now they can’t be friends anymore.

The Moral we get from the story is never break any’s trust, especially the one who trusts you completely and with all the heart.

Gentleness is innate. It is reflected not in the complexion or appearance of a person. It is reflected in the deeds of an individual. A true gentleman is a paradigm of human qualities. He is endowed with benevolence, magnanimity, integrity of character, honesty and empathy. He is humble, polite and is a true portrait of kindness and virtues.

I was travelling in a train. In a berth beside me, a woman was travelling with her kids and lots of luggage. She was talking to another woman, who was a stranger. They both were busy gossiping and telling each other about their family affairs, sharing their joys and sorrows and complaining about their in-laws. Sometimes, they would burst into laughter and on the next moment, silence would fall heavily over the two ladies. Their kids were playing. When both of them were chatting and giggling, one of the ladies saw a man on the above berth who was listening to their gossip intently. The woman got suspicious of him. He looked like a rogue with unshaved beard, dark and thick mustaches, beady, pretending eyes and sanguine nose. He looked exactly like a devil.

At the next station, the woman got down to purchase something from the vendors. Suddenly, the man also got down. This made the lady more suspicious. She, at once, looked inside her berth and saw that her suitcase was missing. It contained gold jewellery. She was greatly astonished. Then, she remembered that when she was telling the other woman that she was on her way to Jaipur and was going there to attend her brother’s wedding, the man was listening very carefully. She was sure that it was the same man who had stolen her suitcase and no one else. I was observing what was happening. I thought to help her but my parents always instruct me not to talk to the strangers while you are travelling. So, I remained sitting at my place. I had to get down at the next station.

Finally, I reached my destination. Since, the train arrived before time, I was waiting for my parents to pick me up. I saw that the lady also alighted at the next station and lodged a complaint with the railway police. Nothing happened. She was sobbing and telling the police that it was her brother’s wedding. She was waiting at the station only with a hope of getting back her suitcase. I could see her children also crying along with her. But the lady looked so worried, looking here and there with all the thoughts muddled up in her mind. Then, she suddenly saw the man whom she took to be a trickster. It seemed he was coming towards her. She became tensed and grabbed her children. He approached her with a smile. He returned the suitcase to her telling her that the other woman she was talking to, was a trickster. He also told her that he alighted halfway of his journey because he had seen that woman getting down with the suitcase which was not hers. The woman thanked him and also apologized him for taking him as a trickster. He was a true gentleman.

Meanwhile, my parents arrived and I described them the whole incident that happened.

The crust of the story is that we should not judge a person from the circumstances as the circumstantial evidence is not adequate for the judgement of a person. The moral we derive from this story is that we should not judge a person by his appearance, but by his deeds.

Once lived a poor old lady Meera. She used to worship god without fail each and every day.  Meera resides within a small hut situated in a plane uncultivable land which is  isolated thus she has to walk a long distance even to fetch water for drinking and miscellaneous purpose.

One fine day walking through a thick dense forest in the hot summer season, she was carrying a heavy bundle of dry sticks in her head. She collected those sticks to use as firewood and cook food to feed her bed ridden husband, son and also her grandchildren. Due to the scorching heat of the sun she became so tired and was not able to carry the firewood. Somehow or the other the sticks fell down. Irrespective of her continuous try, she lost her optimistic thought to get those bundle of sticks in her head. Since the sticks were heavy the impuissant old woman was so much disturbed and said “Who will help me to get this bundle on my head?” .So she cried out in a loud voice  “Oh .. God please help this poor soul”.

Suddenly the god of all creations appeared in his own form in front of the disturbed woman and he asked “what do you want dear old lady?”

The old lady replied “God kindly help me to get this bundle on my head”.

The lord proprietor of everything, the powerful of all, the one with all knowledge, all beauty and all renunciation has appeared before her to give benediction, but the lady just asked for that bundle to get on her head.

This is what we are doing .We ask for a bundle in our head. Whenever we visit holy places to worship god we ask for all material pleasures of this world so that we become happy, our family remains happy, we get all wealth and enjoy all material things losing our memory that we are connected with god. This is our innocence or a stare of not knowing that pure devotional service and mercy are the only things in the world that should be asked to the supreme personality of godhead.

If we want something from god we should just blindly beg for an opportunity to serve the supreme. When people are engaged in any kind of devotional service to god they will be blessed by him and thus they will be able to meet all the daily needs.

To be born as a human is an opportunity given by him to show our love and sacrifice towards the almighty. The purpose of our birth should be understood and used wisely. The ultimate aim of all human soul is to serve the almighty lord and seek his blessings .If we are found as a dedicated servant of lord then we can seek his blessings and live happily with all the health and wealth surrounding us. Seek happiness just by serving the lord. Once tasted the joy of serving him enjoy the mercy showered upon you.

The story has three characters inside, helpless father and his three sons.

Once in a village there lived a man who was a farmer. He had three sons. All of them quarreled among themselves every time. They even did not take care for their father and did not listen to anyone’s advice. In village also whenever anyone gave them good advice all of his three son’s started fighting with them. They did not like each other at all. They fought with each other all the time. They fought even on the matters that were of not so much importance. Their father was very much frustrated with them and did not understand what to do.

This was not liked by their father and whenever he tried to tell them anything they were not ready to listen to him. No matter how much he tried to convince them and explain them anything they were not ready to listen to their father. Their father tried to do this so many times but all of his efforts were in vein. His sons were not ready to listen to anything. He became helpless, worried and thought what would happen to his family once he dies as he is already old aged and would not live more now. He wanted to see all his live together happily.

So out of frustration one day when he was passing by the village he met a wise man and explained him the whole scenario. The wise men gave him one plan and told him to execute the same. Their father took advice of a wise man and executed the plan given by the wise man and which they both had thought in their mind and called all the three sons in his room. He gave each one of them a stick and asked them to break it. They brook it easily. After that their father gave them bundle of sticks and told them to break it. It was not possible for them at all to break that bundle of stick. After everyone was done with these task, their father explained them the importance of unity.

Their father explained them it is easy to break you and your unity when you are alone but when you are together it is not easy to separate you. Even the hardest battle can be won by you when you are united. Like when it was easy for you all to break an individual stick but when you were given a bundle of sticks it was difficult for you all to break it. So like that when you are together no one can break you or your unity but when you are alone it can be easily done by anyone. So never fight amongst yourself and stay united. After that all the three sons lived in peace and unity and their father was happy to see them live happily together.

The moral that we get from the story is it is easy break a family or friendship of the individual’s when they are alone but when they are united it is difficult to do so.