Bonala Mahesh

Sunday, November 8, 2015

A story of Old Parents

Story of Old Parents

After his father's death, the Son decided to leave his mother at an old age home and visited her on and off.
Once he received a call from the old age home. Your mom is very serious please come and visit her.
So the son went and saw that his mom was very critical and on her dying bed.
He asked: Mom what can I do for you.

Mom replied : "Please install fans in the old age home, as there are none. Also put a fridge for betterment of food because many times I slept without food".

The son was surprised and asked : Mom, while you were here you never complained, but now you have few hours left and you are telling me all this, why?

Mom replied : "It's OK dear, I've managed with the heat, hunger pain, but when your children will send you here, I am afraid you will not be able to manage.!

Worth Pondering!!!

The Cow with the Owner- a story

The Cow with the Owner

The Teacher was walking through the market place with his students. They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope. Teacher told the man to wait and asked his disciples to surround them. "I am going to teach you something" and continued...
"Tell me who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man or the man is bound to the cow?
The students said without hesitation "Of course the cow is bound to the man!. The man is the master. He is holding the rope. The cow has to follow him wherever he goes. The man is the master and the cow is the slave."
"Now watch this", said the teacher and took a pair of scissors from his bag and cut the rope. The cow ran away from the master and the man ran after his cow. "Look, what is happening", said the Teacher .
"Do you see who the Master is? The cow is not at all interested in this man. The cow in fact, is trying to escape from this man." This is the case with our mind.
Like the cow, all the non-sense that we carry inside is not interested in us. We are interested in it, we are keeping it together somehow or the other. We are going crazy trying to keep it all together under our control.
The moment we lose interest in all the garbage filled in our head, and the moment we understand the futility of it, it will start to disappear. Like the cow, it will escape and disappear." We can allow disappearing of all the unwanted things from our mind and feel relaxed.