12-1-10 The Wisest Person

12-1-10 The Wisest Person

The goddess at Delphi in Greece was widely respected for her prophecies.One day some one asked her,"Who is the wisest and the most learned person in Greece at this time ?"
The goddess said,"Socrates."
Hearing it some people went to Socrates and said to him,"The goddess has proclaimed that you are the wisest and the most learned person in Greece."
Socrates said,"It is wrong. I am not learned, I am ignorant,though I am desirous of getting knowledge."
Hearing it the people went back to the goddess and said"You have proclaimed Scorates to be the wisest and the most learned person but he refuses to be so and says that he is ignorant."
The goddess said,"Only because of it,he is the wisest and the most learned person because in spite of being a learned person,he has no arrogance of his wisdom and knowledge."
Moral :- A learned person is never arrogant of his knowledge and wisdom.
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12-1-9 Simplicity of Einstine

 Simplicity of Einstine  

The Nobel Prize winner, great scientist Einstine, led a very simple life. He did not like pomp and show in his daily life. On his fifteeth birthday, his admirers  sent him congratulations. A few of them came there and wanted to congratulate him personally. So they brought bouquets with them and went to his home. At that time Einstine was working in his laboratory. His wife went to his laboratory to inform him of their (the admirers) arrival.He came out of the laboratory with his wife. His wife did not like her husband's meeting the admirers in his dirty clothes.
She got irritated and said, "While meeting the people, you must have changed your pantaloon." Einstine laughed and said," They have come to meet me and congratulate me and not to my pantaloon."  His wife became silent. Einstine kept on accepting the congratulations wearing the dirty clothes.
Such was the simplicity of Einstine.  

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12-1- 8 Tenzing Norgay

 Tenzing Norgay 

Tenzing Norgay was born in 1914. He lived with his parents in a small village in Nepal.There was no school in the village or near it.Due to their poverty his parents were not able to send him to school in town . From his childhood he liked to spend the day among the hills and visit new places.
In 1935 a British team selected him as a porter.The team was ready to go to Everest. Tenzing went with it. He was one of the few Sherpas to reach North Col. It is an important point on the way to Everest.Tenzing joined many teams of climbers after 1935. He always went with the main party of climbers. He still worked as a porter but soon learnt  to climb mountains. He won his first medal for climbing in 1938.
Hard work helped Tenzing to become a good climber . He was able to climb even in very bad weather. He chose the most difficult task for himself. He also helped other porters in their difficulties.
In 1952 Tenzing joined a Swiss team. It made two attempts on Everst but failed to reach the top. Two climbers - Tenzing and Lambert reached a height of  27500feet . They spent the night there without a stove or sleeping bags. They slapped each other to keep themselves warm . In the morning,They came down . This was Tenzing's sixth attempt to climb Everest.
The British attempt of 1953 was the seventh for Tenzing. This time he was the leader of the Sherpas as well as a climber. The team set up its ninth camp at a height of 27900 feet . From there it made an attempt to climb to the top of Everest.It sent two persons there but they failed to reach the top.Tenzing and Edmund Hillary made the next attempt. They left the camp early in the morning and climbed for three hours. They were 300 feet from the top now.They climbed slowly towards the top and reached it in about two hours. The two men Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary stood there at 11.30 in the morning on 29 May , 1953 . They were the first to climb a height of 29028 feet . They got success due to their hard work,determination ,courage and will power and became famous in the world.
Moral - The key to success is hard work, determination, courage and will power. 
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12-1-7 Three Questions

12-1-7 Three Questions 

Once there lived a very ambitious king.He never wanted to fail in anything.For it , he wanted to know three things - 

1. What is the right time to begin any work? 

2. Who is the right person whom he should listen to and whom to avoid ? 

3. What is the most important thing that he must do? 

The king went to a very famous hermit to know the answers to his questions. The hermit gave the answers  to his questions as follows   - 

1.Present time is the most important time because it is the only time when we have power to do any thing ,we want. 

2.The most important person is he who is with us. 

3.The most important thing is to do good to the person who is with us because God has sent Man on this earth for doing good to others. 
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12-1-6 Sensitiveness of Lal Bahadur

12-1-6  Sensitiveness of  Lal Bahadur 

When Lal Bahadur was six years old, one day he ,with a group of boys, raided a public garden for sheer mischief of it.As his companions climbed trees and began to pluck fruits ,Lal Bahadur looked around in pensive mood and plucked only a flower from a bush. Just then , one of the boys saw the mali  coming and  raised the alarm, instantly all the boys , except Lal Bahadur, vanished. The mali caught hold of Lal Bahadur and beat him. 

Lal Bahadur said , "I am a poor, fatherless boy.Do not beat me." The mali smiled and said,"All the more reason why, my boy, you should behave better."
He then swore that he would behave better than others, and said to himself that he had to do that because he was fatherless. 

This incident of Lal Bahadur's early life illustrates of his highly sensitive nature.   

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12-1-4 That Makes all the Difference

12-1-4 That Makes all the Difference 

Hearing about the qualities of the music of Tansen's Guru,Swami Hari das, Akbar keenly wished to listen to it.So he with Tansen went to the Ashram of Swami to listen to his music.

They stayed at the Ashram for several days.But Swami,who sang only he wanted to,did not sing.Then one day Tansen deliberately played a false note.Swami could not endure it and started to sing himself. He sang the piece correctly,the mood came upon him and enveloped him,and he forgot himself in the music,which filled the earth and heaven.Akbar and Tansen forgot themselves in the sheer melody and charm of the music.

It was a unique experience.When the music stopped,Akbar turned to Tansen and said,"You say you learnt music from this saint and yet you seem to have missed the living charm of it all. Yours seems to be but chaff beside this soul-stirring music".

"It is true,sir,"  said Tansen,"It is true that my music is wooden and lifeless by the side of the living harmony and melody of the master. But then there is this difference- I sing to the emperor's bidding,but my master sings to no man's bidding but only when the prompting comes from his innermost self. That makes all the difference."

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12-1-5 When Lal BahadurJumped in to the River

12-1-5 When Lal BahadurJumped in to the River 

During his school days,one day Lal Bahadur Shastri,with a group of his friends,went across the river to attend the fair. After wandering all day at the fair,the other friends left the fair ground and took the boat to get across the river to reach their homes.But Lal Bahadur did not deliberately accompany them.When all his friends had left,and under the cover of dusk ,Lal Bahadur jumped into the river and swam across half a mile to the other bank. 

The truth was that Lal Bahadur had no money to pay the boat man and was too  sensitive and proud to let his friends know it.

It is however not true that at any time Lal Bahadur swam his way to school because he did not have money to pay for the boat fare.This was actually a distortion of the above incident.

Other stories you will like to read -
(12.1.1) Duty
(12.1.2) The best season of the year
(12.1.3) The examinee challenged the examiner
(12.3.4) That makes all the difference
(12.1.5) When Lalbahadur jumped into the river
(12.1.6) The sensitiveness of Lalbahadur
(12.1.7) Three questions
(12.1.8) Tenzing Norgay
(12.1.9) Simplicity of Einstine
(12.1.10) The wisest person

12-1-3 The Examinee Challenged the Examiner

12-1-3 The Examinee Challenged the Examiner

Tirtha Ram Gosain's (the future Swami Ram Tirtha's )career is very inspiring.The following story is one of the examples.

The Mathematics paper at the B.A. Examination was found very difficult by most of the candidates,and there were complaints about it in the Public Press.Nine out of thirteen questions were expected to be attempted.But Tirtha Ram solved all the thirteen questions and requested the examiner to assess any nine out of those he had answered. He secured 98 per cent marks. No wonder, therefore,that he became Professor of Mathematics in his own college immediately after doing M.A.  

Other stories you will like to read -
(12.1.1) Duty
(12.1.2) The best season of the year
(12.1.3) The examinee challenged the examiner
(12.3.4) That makes all the difference
(12.1.5) When Lalbahadur jumped into the river
(12.1.6) The sensitiveness of Lalbahadur
(12.1.7) Three questions
(12.1.8) Tenzing Norgay
(12.1.9) Simplicity of Einstine
(12.1.10) The wisest person

12-1-2 The Best Season of the Year

 The Best Season of the Year

Once there lived a Seth(a very rich merchant )named Govind Narayan in a town in Rajasthan. He had a young son who had attained the marriageable age.The Seth began a search for a virtuous bride for his son.Whenever he got a proposal for his son's marriage from someone, he asked one and the same question to the daughter of the person who made the proposal - "Which is the best season of the year?"  Every girl gave a different answer with a different reason. But no answer could satisfy the merchant.

One day another merchant, Hariprakash was going somewhere with the members of his family.When he reached the town where Seth Govind Naryan lived, the night fell. So he decided to spend the night there.Knowing about the arrival of some rich merchant, Seth Govind Naryan went to him and requested him to spend the night at his Haveli. Hariprakash had a daughter.During their conversation, Hariprakash made a persopal of his daughter's marriage with Govind Naryan's son.As usual Govind naryan  asked the same question to the merchant's daughter - "Which is the best season of the year ? "
The girl answered - "If the environment of the family is peaceful,the younger members of the family have respect for their elders and the elder members have affection for the younger ones and all the members of the family are cooperative,for that family every season is the best season."
Seth Govind Naryan was impressed and satisfied with the girl's answer and accepted the proposal of her marriage with his son.

Other stories you will like to read -
(12.1.1) Duty
(12.1.2) The best season of the year
(12.1.3) The examinee challenged the examiner
(12.3.4) That makes all the difference
(12.1.5) When Lalbahadur jumped into the river
(12.1.6) The sensitiveness of Lalbahadur
(12.1.7) Three questions
(12.1.8) Tenzing Norgay
(12.1.9) Simplicity of Einstine
(12.1.10) The wisest person

12-1-1 Duty

 DUTY
There was a rich shepherd in a village. Once he hired two boys to take care of his sheep. He divided the herd of sheep in two groups and assigned one boy to each. After a few days he observed that some of the sheep had died and others had lost weight in both the groups. The owner found the two boys guilty.
Both of them used to take the sheep along with them every morning but used to let them just roam around here and there and spent time in the 'hobbies' they were addicted to. One of them was used to gossiping He would just sit with a gang of other boys and gossip .  The sheep used to just move around in the surrounding area whether there was sufficient  stuff for grazing or not. Similar was the case with the other group; the boy in-charge of this had 'addiction' of spending time in worship and religious rituals.

The farmer lodged a complaint against both of them. Both were presented in the court of Village Judge. Although there was a great qualitative difference in their addictions, both were given the same penalty being found guilty of neglect of assigned duty.
The judicial verdict conveyed was- whatever is done by neglecting the assigned duties is wrong; whether it is the bad habit of gossiping or the good practice of worship; both are addictions in this case. Both are equally punishable because the immediate duty was fully ignored in each.

Other stories you will like to read -
(12.1.1) Duty
(12.1.2) The best season of the year
(12.1.3) The examinee challenged the examiner
(12.3.4) That makes all the difference
(12.1.5) When Lalbahadur jumped into the river
(12.1.6) The sensitiveness of Lalbahadur
(12.1.7) Three questions
(12.1.8) Tenzing Norgay
(12.1.9) Simplicity of Einstine
(12.1.10) The wisest person