Story of Two Screws

Story of Two Screws

 

 

Once upon a time there were two screws fastening a vital part of a gasoline engine. One of the screws was haughty and proud of it's shining head. The second screw was quiet, intent only on doing its job to the best of its ability.

One day a speck of rust appeared on the head of the second screw. Filled with vain pride of its own beauty, the first screw began to laugh at the second. "Your head is tarnished," the first said to the second. "Look at you. Your perfect luster is gone."

The second screw said nothing. Instead, it concentrated on what it was doing. "How ugly you have become," the first screw chortled, "and how beautiful I have remained." Then it began to laugh so hard at the second screw that it failed to notice that it was working itself loose. Finally it dropped off the engine and plunged into a small pool of dirty oil below.

With the first screw no longer holding up its end of the load, the second was faced with doing the work of two. Meanwhile the first screw, now covered with grimy oil, wailed and lamented. "Just look at me! I'm dirty and filthy and all my beauty is gone. By laughing at the blemish on my friend the second screw, I worked myself loose and fell into the muck. Now I'm doomed."

Now, it just so happened that a short time later the owner of the engine started it up. He immediately noticed that something didn't sound right -- the engine was running rough. When he checked, he instantly saw that one of the two screws holding the vital part was missing. "Ah ha!" the owner said. "One of the screws must have worked itself loose and fell to the ground, but I don't see it. Maybe it fell into that puddle of old oil."

The owner reached into the oil and found the missing screw. "Look at you," the owner said. "You're all covered with grime and oil. How ugly you are. But I will fix that right away." The owner reached for a nearby rag and wiped all the oil and grime off the first screw until it shone even brighter than before. Then he replaced it on the part. Before he turned away, he noticed a little speck of tarnish on the head of the second screw. With the second rag, he wiped the head clean and bright. Then the owner walked away.

Finally the engine was started. The two screws, now equally beautiful, held the part tight. "Forgive me, my friend," the first screw said to the second. "In my vanity, I was so busy laughing at your blemish that I did not notice that I was working myself loose."

"And what have you learned?" the second screw quietly asked.
"I learned not to judge others because I have my own sins to deal with."
"Then," the second screw said, "I forgive you."

"Thank you, my friend. And rest assured, my vanity will remain forever at the bottom of that dirty puddle of oil."

Honesty

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, "ur Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter" The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker."

What is the moral of the story? We get back in life what we give to others.

Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this question - Am I giving fair value for the wages or money I hope to make ?

Honesty and dishonesty become a habit. Some people practice dishonesty and can lie with a straight face. Others lie so much that they don't even know what the truth is anymore. But who are they deceiving ? Themselves -- more than anyone else.

Honesty can be put across gently. Some people take pride in being brutally honest. It seems they are getting a bigger kick out of the brutality than the honesty. Choice of words and tact are important.

The Master

 

The Master       When one Guru  was dying, one of his deciple asked him "Guruji, who was your master?"He said, "I had thousands of masters. If I just relate their names it will take months, years and it is too late. But three masters I will certainly tell you about. One was a thief. Once I got lost in the desert, and when I reached a village it was very late, everything was closed. But at last I found one man who was trying to make a hole in t he wall of a house. I asked him where I could stay and he said 'At this time of night it will be difficult, but you can say with me - if you can stay with a thief'.And the man was so beautiful. I stayed for one month! And each night he would say to me, 'Now I am going to my work. You rest, you pray.' When he came back I would ask 'Could you get anything?' He would say, 'Not tonight. But tomorrow I will try again, God willing.' He was never in a state of hopelessness, he was always happy. When I was meditating and meditating for years on end and nothing was happening, many times the moment came when I was so desperate, so hopeless,that I thought to stop all this nonsense. And suddenly I would remember the thief who would say every night, 'God willing, tomorrow it is going to happen.' And my second master was a dog. I was going to the river, thirsty and a dog came. He was also thirsty. He looked into the river, he saw another dog there -- his own image -- and became afraid. He would bard and run away, but his thirst was so much that he would come back. Finally, despite his fear, he just jumped into the water, and the image disappeared. And I knew that a message had come to me from God: one has to jump in spite of all fears. And the third master was a small child. I entered a town and a child was carrying a lit candle. He was going to the mosque to put the candle there. 'Just joking,' I asked the boy, 'Have you lit the candle yourself?' He said, 'Yes sir.' And I asked, 'There was a moment when the candle was unlit, then there was a moment when the candle was lit. Can you show me the source from which the light came?' And the boy laughed, blew out the candle, and said, 'Now you have seen the light going. Where has it gone? You will tell me!' My ego was shattered, my whole knowledge was shattered. And that moment I felt my own stupidity. Since then I dropped all my knowledgeability. It is true that I had no master. That does not mean that I was not a disciple -- I accepted the whole existence as my master. My Disciplehood was a greater involvement than yours is. I trusted the clouds, the trees. I trusted existence as such. I had no master because I had millions of masters I learned from every possible source. To be a disciple is a must on the path. What does it mean to be a disciple? It means to be able to learn. To be available to learn to be vulnerable to existence. With a master you start learning to learn. The master is a swimming pool where you can learn how to swim. Once you have learned, all the oceans are yours." ******       ************ ********* ********* *****

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Gujarati Letter

 

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ગુજરાતીમાં એક ટપાલ 

તારીખ : આજની જ

પ્રતિ,   

તમોને જ

વિષય: જિંદગી અને તમે !

ભાઈશ્રી/બહેનશ્રી,

હું, ભગવાન – આજે તમને બે શબ્દો લખવા માંગું છું. ધ્યાનથી વાંચજો. આજે તમારી જિંદગીના બધા જ પ્રશ્નોનું નિરાકરણ કરી શકાય તેવો રસ્તો તમને બતાવવાનો છું. એટલું યાદ રાખજો કે મારે તમારી મદદથી કોઈ પણ જગ્યાએ જરૂર પડવાની નથી. હું તમારી પાસે સીધો આવવાનો પણ નથી. તમારે ફક્ત નીચેના મુદ્દાઓ યાદ રાખવાના છે અને એ મુજબ પાલન કરવાનો પ્રયત્ન કરવાનો છે.

 [૧]    જિંદગી તરફથી એવી કોઈ સમસ્યા ઊભી થાય કે જે તમારાથી હલ ન થઈ શકે તો એને મારા નામની પ્રાર્થનાના પોસ્ટબૉક્સમાં મૂકી દેવી. એના ઉપર – ભગવાનને માટે – એવું અવશ્ય લખવું. એક વખત આ બૉક્સમાં સમસ્યા મૂક્યા પછી વારંવાર એને બહાર કાઢીને તપાસ્યા ન કરવું.. એનું નિરાકરણ ચોક્કસ થશે, પણ હા, મારા સમયે, તમારા સમયે નહીં!

[૨]    તમે ધંધાની કોઈ આફતમાં ઘેરાઈ જાવ તો મૂંઝવણ ન અનુભવશો. ફકત એવા માણસોને યાદ કરજો કે જેની પાસે ધંધો જ નથી.

[૩]    ટ્રાફિકમાં ક્યારેય પણ ફસાવ તો અધીરા ન થશો, એવા લોકોને યાદ કરજો કે જેને માટે કાર ચલાવવી એ એક પરીકથાની વસ્તુ જેવું હોય.

[૪]    તમારા શેઠ કે સાહેબ તમને ક્યારેક ખિજાય તો એવા માણસોનો વિચાર કરજો કે જેમના નસીબમાં કામ કે નોકરી લખાયા જ ન હોય. જે સાવ બેકાર હોય.

[૫]   તમારો એકાદ રવિવાર કે રજા ખરાબ જાય તો દુ:ખી થવાને બદલે એવા લોકોનું સ્મરણ કરી લેજો કે જેને કુટુંબનું પેટ ભરવા માટે રોજેરોજ કપરી મજૂરી કરવી પડતી હોય. જેનો એક પણ રવિવાર રજાનો દિવસ જ ન હોય..

[૬]    ક્યારેક વાહન વગર ચાલવાનું થાય તો અફસોસના બદલે બંને પગે જેને પૅરાલિસિસ કે લકવો થયો હોય તેવી વ્યક્તિને યાદ કરજો. એમને એકાદ ડગલું પણ ચાલવા મળે તો એ લોકો કેટલો આનંદ પામે એનો વિચાર કરજો.

[૭]   તમારી જિંદગીએ તમને શું આપ્યું છે એવો વિચાર ક્યારેક આવે તો એવા લોકોને યાદ કરજો જે તમારા જેટલી ઉંમરે પહોંચ્યા જ ન હોય. એ પહેલાં જ જેને મૃત્યુ આંબી ગયું હોય.

[૮]    કોઈ તમારી સાથે ખૂબ જ ખરાબ વર્તન કરે , તમારું અપમાન કરે, તમને નુકશાન પહોંચાડે તોપણ ખુશ એ વાતથી થજો કે તમે એ વ્યક્તિ નથી !

[૯]    કોઈ દિવસ અરીસામાં એકાદ સફેદ વાળ જોઈ જાવ તો કૅન્સરથી પીડાતાં નાનાં બાળકો કે નાની ઉંમરની વ્યક્તિઓને યાદ કરજો જે પોતાને વાળ હોય તેવી આશા રાખતાં હોય.

અને છેલ્લે…

  હું તમારા બધા પ્રશ્નોનું નિરાકરણ કરીશ જ, વિશ્વાસ રાખજો પણ ત્યાં સુધીમાં જો તમને આ બાબતો ગમી હોય તો મારા મિત્રોને સગાંવહાલાંને મોકલજો અને એમનો દિવસ પણ સુધારજો અને એ લોકો પણ નિશ્ચિંત થઈ જાય તેવું કરજો.

એ જ લિ,

ભગવાનના આશિષ.

 

 

 

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN "M A R C H "

A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN "M A R C H "

Have you been in a neighborhood park during one of these days ?
If not, just spare some time, preferably in the morning around seven.

You will find plants laden with colorful flowers, trees shedding old, dry leaves and beginning to adorn fresh new ones, and the divine morning breezeenergizing every mind, body and soul. There is transformation for the good all around.

The Mother Nature is at Her cheerful best to celebrate and welcome theupcoming new year.

A new year ? In March ? Yes ! THE HINDU NEW YEAR.

Exactly fifteen days after HOLI celebrations, comes the first day of the HINDU CALENDER – VIKRAM SAMVAT named after the legendary King Vikramaditya who ushered in the golden era of the Indian history.

So, on 16th March of 2010 AD, we enter into the first day of the first month i.e. CHAITRA of Vikram Samvat 2067.

This day signifies a "NEW AUSPICIOUS BEGINNING" in the true sense andnot merely a change of date.

This day was chosen by the wiserly to coronate LORD RAM on the throne of Ayodhya after HE had laid to rest, permanently, the terrorism unleashed by demon king Ravan. In the modern times, Swami Dayanand laid the foundation of the ARYA SAMAJ on this day, to infuse new vitality in the Hindu society.

NAVRATRA celebrations also begin on this very day marked by seven days of fasting---a scientific way of switchover of dietary pattern from winter to summers.

I wish you and your family a Nav Samvat full of peace and prosperity.

Let us resolve to align our New Year festivities with Vikram Samvat and I promise, you aren't going to be alone----NATURE IS WITH YOU.

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just u decide

just u decide

 

 

 

 

A man feared his wife wasn't hearing as well a s she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem.



The doctor told him there is a simple test the he could perform to give the doctor a better idea about her hearing loss.

 

 

"Here's what you do," said the Doctor, "stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response."

That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he was in the den. He says to himself, "I'm about 40 Feet away, let's see what happens." Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for dinner?"



No response. So the husband moves to closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey, what's for dinner?" Still no response.

 

 

Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, "Honey, what's for dinner?" Again he gets no response.



So, he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for dinner?" Again there is no response. So he walks right up behind her. "Honey, what's for dinner?"




"Good Lord, Ralph, are you deaf? I said for the FIFTH time, CHICKEN !"

Khedut Sibir , Sewadham Dang , Ahva