Moral Stories - Peaceful Mind

Once there was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the farm. It was not an ordinary watch because it had
sentimental value for him.
After searching the hay for a long while, he gave up and call the help of a group of children playing outside the barn.
He promised them that, the person who found it, would be rewarded.
Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up
looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not.? After all, this kid looks sincere enough.”
So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand.
The farmer was happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.
The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.”
MESSAGE : A Peaceful mind can think better than a Worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of Silence to your mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps u to set
your life the way you expect it to be.

MORAL : The soul always knows what to do to heal itself...
The challenge is to silence the mind….........

Moral Stories - Consequences of our own Actions

Once a king ordered his three ministers to take a bag and go to the forest and fill up the bag with fruits.

The first minister thought that since the king has ordered for collection of fruits,
he must collect the best of the fruits in the bag.


The second minister thought that since the king is a very busy person,
he may not look very thoroughly into the bag what has been collected and hence he collected whatever he could lay his hands.

Thus his bag was filled up with a mixture of good and rotten fruits.


The third minister thought that the king would see only externally how big the bag is and ,
hence he just filled up the bag with all dried leaves and dust.


All the three ministers came back to the court with their respective bags,
having executed the order of collecting the fruits.


The King,
without even seeing what their bags contained,
just ordered that now the three ministers must be sent to separate jails for
a month,

where they will not be provided with any food and they were only allowed to carry the respective bags wherein they had collected the fruits.


The first minister could spend the month in the jail by eating the very nice fruits he had collected.


The second one could survive for some time with the good fruits in the bag and later
he developed diseases
by eating the rotten fruits he had collected.


The Third minister had nothing to eat and hence could not survive.


Moral of the story:
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From the above story we understand that we have to undergo the consequences of our own activities.

“You will be suffering or enjoying your own reactions after your karmas,

Any single karma you perform,
Good and bad, everything,
you have to have the respective reaction.