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Once in old times young king of country thought that old people are unnecessary and burden to country as they are weak and unable to do any productive work. All his courtiers consisted of young people and they agreed with him. Soon King passed an order that all people above sixty must be killed as they have already lived their lifetime. So all the old people of the country were killed. In the country lived a young man who had great respect and love for his father and he didn’t wanted him to get killed. So before soldier came he hid his father into a cellar. After some years a terrible drought overtook a country and people had to suffer from troubles and sickness. Famine was so severe that even stores of food grains were fully exhausted and not a single grain of seed was left to sow in land. Everyone in the country looked worried but no one could think of anything to better country situation. Young man who hid his father.. used to go his father for advice whenever anything troubled him....

Once upon a time there lived a generous, kind – hearted king. He was fond of birds and animals and had a huge bird sanctuary in his reign. He disliked harming the animals and birds and even did not kill them for the sake of eating meat. Owing to his generosity and kindness towards birds, he was gifted two beautiful falcons by his fellow businessman. Those two falcons belonged to a different place and lived in a different climatic condition. The king thanked the businessman and ordered the head of the bird trainer to provide all the facilities to those beautiful falcons and make them feel comfortable in their country. The head trainer took the birds and provided all essentials to help the birds adapt to the atmosphere. Gradually, the birds got adapted to the country’s atmosphere. One day the king wanted to see the falcons fly as he heard that one of those falcons fly to great heights at a very high speed. The king was quite surprised and rewarded the bird trainer with handful of gold co...

Once in a village lived a farmer who used to work in a big field. In middle of his field there was boulder stuck in land which used to get in farmer’s way while working. Farmer would work cautiously around that boulder but still there were time he would stumble because of that boulder and fell. Whenever farmer fell, he would think of getting that boulder remove from his field but then got scared of thinking how big that stone was and how deep it might be stuck in land. He thought he couldn’t do it alone and it would take lot of time. Thinking all that he would leave that stone as it is. Like everyday, in morning farmer went to his fields to work but again same thing happened, once again farmer’s foot got stuck on that boulder and he stumbled and fell over. His plow also broke because of that stone. Farmer got very angry as for years he had to face loss of his tools many time because of that stone. This time he thought that, he would dig out that boulder from that land and throw it out ...

Once in village lived a man who was very lazy and didn’t liked to work. So he would always look for easiest way to feed himself. One day he found a fruit farm and looked around. Not seeing any one guarding farm, he decided to steal some fruits but as soon as he climbed tree, farm owner saw him. Owner ran toward him to catch him. Seeing him that man got afraid and ran towards forest and went inside forest to hide. After sometime passed, he started to walk toward village. While passing by he saw that there was fox who had only two legs and was crawling on those two legs. Man thought to himself, “How can this fox is still alive in such condition? This fox can’t run then how it is able to feed himself as well as save itself from other animals?” Just then man saw a lion coming in his direction, He ran and climbed up tree. From there he saw that lion was holding a piece of meat in his mouth and seeing lion all other animals ran away except for that fox as it wasn’t able to run. Man was surpr...

Once a mighty King ruled a kingdom. He didn’t have any children and because of his age, he was worried about future heir of kingdom. So, he decided to hand over the reins of his kingdom to a qualified youth. He conducted a merit test for selection of future successor. For test, a magnificent palace was built and a puzzle was written on closed door of that palace. It was announced in whole kingdom that all the youth of kingdom are invited to solve that puzzle and open the door of palace. One who is successful in opening the door will be given that palace as gift and will also be declared the heir of kingdom. From the day of announcement, there was an influx of young people in front of that newly built palace. From morning till evening, young men used to come there and tried to solve the puzzle written on the door but no one was able to solve it. Many days passed. Even most intelligent were unable to find a solution to that puzzle and gave up. One day young from other kingdom were invite...

  Once there was very wealthy man who was suffering from severe eye pain. He consulted many doctors and tried their treatments but nothing helped. Even after consuming so many drugs to treat his eye, he still suffered from pain and that pain in eye persisted more than before. At last, he heard about a monk who was famous for being an expert in treating such problems. He went to him and told him about his problem. Monk understood his problem and said that, “You should concentrate only on green colors and try not to let your eyes fall on any other color.” Man found this kinda prescription strange but he was desperate to find cure and decided to try it. Wealthy man called for group of painters and purchased loads of green paint and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall to be painted green just as the monk had directed. Just in few days everything around that man was in green. Wealthy man made sure that nothing around would in any other color. After some days, monk came...

Once a scientific researcher came to know about a tribe which lived in deep forest and consisted of only 300 people but all blind. So, he went to forest and lived with tribe to understand them. He realized that they had no idea that they were blind as they had not known anybody with eyes, who can see. Researcher pretended that he was also like them. Soon, he found the reason for their blindness. He found that there was a certain insect. If this insect sting an infant, he/she will become blind. Insect was common and was there in every house, so it was impossible for any child to get away. Nobody could remember that they could see when they were born. So, whole tribe lived normally. They managed to farm, bring water from well and do everything needed. They became adopted to this life. Researcher remained with that tribe for long. There he fell in love with woman. He wanted to marry her so he asked head of tribe for permission to marry her. But by that time tribe became suspicious of rese...

It’s story of a boy who has just finished his college and hadn’t had got any job yet and was living in a small rented room. One day his cousin came to him and asked him to help with some concepts. Boy had good hold of knowledge over that subject so boy helped his cousin without any difficulty. Soon boy by joined by some more friends for help in studies and were also willing to pay him fee for teaching them. However, House owner was not happy with all the crowd coming to his house. So he asked boy to leave that rented room or look for some place to continue his teaching activities. Boy really wanted to continue teaching as he loved that and also helped him to earn some money so he looked for another place to teach his students. By luck he found out a place. It was a big hall where a saint used to live alone. Boy went to saint and asked him for permission to use that hall for teaching his students. Saint agreed and allow him to take classes in the corner of that hall but on one condition...

Once there was a wandering dervish (members of a Sufi fraternity) was lost in desert and was starving. He had nothing with him. As he was walking along an old pathway in desert, in search of something to eat, he found an empty sack that had been thrown there on road by previous passer by. Dervish picked that sack up and swing it over his shoulder, praying loudly, “Thank you God for giving a starving man an empty sack.” and continued walking. After walking some distance, he came across an old hunting bow whose string were broken. He picked it up and put it in sack and prayed loudly, “Thank God for giving a starving man a hunting bow with broken string.” A bit further down the road, he saw an old tree that was dry and dead and bore no fruit. He broke a few branches off that old tree and put them in his sack and again loudly he prayed, “Thank you God for leading a starving man to a old dry and dead tree.” After walking some more, he found a dented old dusted cooking pot. He picked it up a...

Once a scholar was passing through a village where his childhood friend used to live. He decided to visit his friend’s house. When he arrived at his friend’s house, he saw that his friend was living in poverty, along with his two brothers. Scholar met his friend and after a talking for a while. He got up to leave as he didn’t want to put burden on him but his friend asked him to stay. Because his friend insisted, he decided to stay for night. In evening, while talking to his friend, scholar noticed that his brothers went to backyard of their house and started smashing out legumes from the legume tree present there. After that both his friend’s brothers took those legume and went to market to sell it, to earn some money. Scholar asked his friend about it and came to know that his friend and brothers are living like that for long time. They would just sell those legume every time they needed money. Later evening when brothers returned, they bought some pluses and flour to make food. Quan...

Once in a far away place lived a man who had faith in God. One night, a man was sleeping soundly. Suddenly a huge sound woke him up. When he opened his eyes, he saw that his room was filled with light. Just then God appeared before him, showed him a large rock outside his house and told him to push that rock with all his might. Next morning when man woke up, he remembered what he saw that night. He got outside and pushed it with all his might but wasn’t able to move it. Despite it man didn’t give up and from that day he made his routine to push that rock daily with all his might. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of that large rock, pushing with all of his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain as that rock never moved a bit even after many years. Not seeing any progress, man started to get discourage and just then devil showed up in...

One day, a little boy asked his father, “What does word Great means?” Boy said, “I have read many time that this person is great, he did this and that. Please explain me who are these great people and how they become great?” Father said, “Okay.” Father thought of a idea to teach his son about being Great. Father asked his son to bring two plants and then told him to plant one of them inside house and other outside house. Boy did as his father said. Now, father called his son and asked, “What do you think? Which one of these two plants will be bigger and safe?” Boy replied, “Papa, plant which is inside our house will be safe, therefore it will grow big where as plant outside house is not safe at all, it will have to withstand many season and no one will be there to take care of it. It can be eaten by animals.” Father smiled and said, “We will know this at right time and at same that time i will give you answer for your question.” Boy left for higher studies and after four years he came ...

  Once in a village, a rich man built a grand temple at center of village. When temple was ready, many visitors started reaching the temple to worship. Seeing the grandeur of temple, people would praise it for beauty. With time, temple became popular. People from far and wide started reaching temple to worship and would admire its beauty. Seeing increasing number of devotees, rich man made arrangements for food and lodging for the devotees in temple itself. Now, rich man needed a person who would look after all the arrangement in temple, so he put up a notice outside temple – Need an administrator. Seeing notice, many people started coming to that rich man. People knew that if they get job as admin of this temple then the salary will also be good. But rich man returned every applicant after interview and would say, “I need a qualified person for this work, who can manage temple properly.” Many people would call him fool or mad but he didn’t pay heed to anyone’s comment and kept on ...

Once a farmer found an egg of a bird and he took it to his farm and put it with hen’s egg. Hen started incubating that egg with it’s other eggs. In few days chicks came out of hen’s egg and falcon baby came out of that egg. Falcon baby started growing up with chicks. It would eat, drink and play with chicks jumping here and there. While living with chicks he never realized that he was not a chick but a falcon. He lived like a chick happily. When it was time to learn to fly, it would fly small heights just like chicks and then come back to ground. It wanted to fly high but seeing that other chicks would fly only a little high and then come back to ground, he would imitate them and never tried to fly higher than that. One day, a falcon was flying above that farm in the sky, when falcon baby saw it, he asked hen,”Who is that bird, which is flying so high?” Hen replied, “He is a falcon, king of birds. He flies at that highest altitude. No other bird can match him.” Baby falcon said, “If i ...

Rohan was a greedy and a selfish man. He always desired to have lots and lots of wealth and never hesitated to cheat others to earn money. Also, he never wished to share anything with the others. He was so selfish that he would like to own everything for himself.  The selfish man used to calculate each and every small aspect. He paid a very little amount of wages to his servants. Where ever he went, he calculated a lot to save money by deceiving others. He also told a lot of lies to protect his wealth. Simply, Rohan was the antonym for the word HONESTY. However, he was taught a nice lesson by his own act. One day, he missed a small bag, which contained 50 gold coins. He was searching for the bag of gold coins day and night. He sent his workers in search of the bag, but none could find it. He told his friends and neighbors that he had lost a bag of gold coins and requested them to inform if they found it. Rohan was so sad that he had lost so many gold coins. After a couple of days, ...

Once a young girl was very fond of gardening. She used to love flowers and had maintained herself a very beautiful garden. One day while looking through a flower catalogue, she found a very beautiful flower. She thought to herself, “I want to have it in my garden.” She looked through the details of flower and ordered it’s seed and other planting thing necessary for it. After this she looked through the garden and decided for a place to plant those seeds. When it arrived, she took every thing to the back of her house and there she planted it at the base of wall. Plant grew vigorously with beautiful leaves all over the wall but there were no flowers. Just to see that beautiful flower bloom.. she continued to cultivate it, water it and took great care of it. She tried every thing yet there was no sign of even a single flower in between those beautiful leaves and vines on the wall. Weeks went by but still no flower bloom. One morning she stood in front of that plant and felt disappointed a...

Once a wise man bought a very big and beautiful house. This house had a huge orchard in front and it filled with trees bearing lots of fruits. Wise man was good by nature and greeted everyone with love and respect. Everyone in his neighbor liked him except one of his neighbor. This neighbor was an old man who used to live just next door to him was envious of him. He was jealous of him because everyone else liked him and old man didn’t like that. Old man wanted him to leave that neighborhood and for this he thought of irritating his new neighbor to make his every day miserable by one or other way. For some days old man tried many tricks but he didn’t got any reaction from his new neighbor. He got irritated by it and then one day old man took all his garbage and threw it in his neighbor’s porch at night. Next morning when wise man woke up and came to his porch, he saw that loads of garbage was thrown there. He cleaned his porch and collected all that garbage in a bucket. He knew that it ...

There was a big tree more than hundred years old located in the middle of a dry land. It gave rest and shelter to hundreds and thousands of travelers. The tree was located at the center of four different towns, act as a connection point of all towns and villages in the nearby area. However, except the big old tree, there was no other tree that can offer rest to the people. The tree has a huge and broad trunk with innumerable branches which spread the shadow covering a wide space. One day, two travelers were traveling from a distant place and tried to reach a town located at the east of the tree. They were walking for several miles on a hot and sunny day. They started their journey from early morning and it was almost mid noon. The sun was too hot and they could not walk anymore due to the heat. They were completely exhausted! Fortunately, they reached the place where the tree was located. They were very happy to see such a big tree with breezing wind. They decided to take rest under th...

Once upon a time in a kingdom, a King’s advisor was famous for his wisdom. One day while going to palace with one of his friend and on his way, he saw a dead mouse.. Seeing that mouse he said to his friend, “Even from such small beginnings as this dead mouse, an energetic young fellow could build a fortune. If he worked hard and used his intelligence, he could start a business and support a wife and family.” There was a young man who heard that and knew about king’s advisor. So he decided to follow his advice and then picked up that mouse and went off with it. As luck would have it, son a shopkeeper stopped him and said, “Can i buy that mouse?? My cat has been pestering for a mouse. I will give you two copper coins for it..” Young man happily accepted and left off with those two coins. On his way he saw a cake shop and bought cake worth 2 copper coins. He took some water and those cake, and sat on road side at road crossing. As he expected, some people were returning from their work. S...

  Once in a far away village, lived a young boy who used to live with his step-family. There was scarcity of water in the village so people had to go stream of water at end of village to fetch water. Young boy used to wake up early in morning to get water from the stream for himself and his family. Sadly for him it was difficult task as the way was long and he alone had to walk there in morning and evening. While he was given such difficult task his siblings were given lenient task or none Yet young boy had no hard feelings for his step-family members. Once boy was coming back home from stream with pot of water. On his way back he saw an old man resting under a tree. Seeing boy holding water pots, old man begged him for water to quench his thirst. Boy gave him water from the pot. Later on his way he met a lady who asked for water, boy gave water to her too and walked to home. Boy’s water pot got half empty because of it his step-mother got angry with him for bringing only half fill...

  Once in a kingdom, it was habit of a King to disguise and make visits, to keep check on needs of his people. One day while he was out with his minister, he reached edge of city where he saw a man lying. King saw that many people passed by but no one came to help that man. So, King himself went to that lying man and tried to wake him, then he realized that man was dead. Seeing this, King called out to people and asked for help but still no one came near him. People couldn’t recognized King. At last King stopped one of man passing by and asked, “I asked people to help but still no one came, why doesn’t anyone want come near this man?” At this that person replied, “He does bad deeds and is sinful. Everyone around here knows that, therefore no one wants to go near him.” Seeing people response, King and his ministers picked up dead body of that man and brought it to his home. His wife started crying after seeing dead body of her husband. Just then King told her about people attitude t...

A wealthy merchant from the east passed away. In his will, the man stated equally division of his wealth to three sons but his most treasured camels were divided in rather challenging way. According to the will the eldest son was to be given half of the camels, the middle son was to be given one third of the camels, and the youngest son was to be given one ninth of the camels. The merchant had seventeen cattle. As it was not possible to divide 17 camels into half, one third or even into one ninth. The three son started fighting with each other for their fair share of the camels. Since the sons were not able distribute the camel among them, they went to a wise man for advice. The wise man patiently listened about the sons’ dilemma. After carefully understanding the situation the wise man brought one of his camels and added to the the seventeen camels of the merchant. That increased the total to eighteen (18) camels. Now, he started reading the deceased father’s will and divided the came...

There were two men, both seriously ill, who shared the same hospital room. One man got a seat next to the room’s only window. The man was also allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help him drain fluids from his lungs. The other man spent all his time lying flat on his back. The two roommates quickly bonded and started talking for hours on end. They talked about their lives, their job, children and wives. Then, one day the man on the other side of the window expressed how he envied the man near the window. From that day, the man near the window started describing all the things he could see outside the window. The window overlooked a lovely park with a lake. Ducks played on the lake while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. The man on the other bed began to live for those one hour where he could hear and visualize the world outside the ho...

One beautiful afternoon, a young man was taking a stroll around his garden when he noticed a cocoon of a butterfly on a leaf. Thrilled to see a fantastic transformation of nature, he watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through a little hole in its cocoon. After a while, the butterfly seemed to stop making any progress. It was struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn’t break free! It looked desperate! It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no further. The kind-hearted man decided to help the butterfly. He got a pair of scissors and tweaked the cocoon to make a larger opening for the butterfly. The butterfly emerged quickly without any struggle. But unlike any other butterflies in his garden, it had a swollen body with tiny, withered wings. The man was happy that he made the butterfly come out of its cocoon without much struggle. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings woul...

A young woman struggling with life, went to her mother and told her how her life was miserable and hard for her. She was tired of fighting and struggling with her problems and wanted to give up. Her mother, without saying much, took the young lady to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first pot, she placed carrots, in the second one she placed eggs, and the last she placed some ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word to her daughter. The daughter wondered what her mother was trying to do while she was complaining about her life. After some time the mother turned down the burner, fished the carrots and the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out into a cup. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Dear, Tell me what do you see?". "A Carrot, egg and coffee." she replied. "Look closer and feel the carrots" said the mother. The daughter noted that they were soft. The mother then aske...

Many years ago there were a group of brilliant young men at the University of Wisconsin. The group of men seemed to have an amazing creative literary talent and were extraordinary in their ability to put their literary skills to its best use. These promising young men met regularly to read and critique each other’s literary works./nThese men were merciless while they criticized one another. They dissected the most minute of the expressions and offered tough and even mean criticism to each others work. Their meeting sessions became arenas of literary criticism and the members of this exclusive club called themselves the "Stranglers."/nNot to be excluded to the opportunity to level up there literary skills, the women of literary interest in the university started a club of their own, one comparable to Stranglers. The members called themselves the " Wranglers." The member of the lub too presented their literary pieces in front of each another. But the feedback from the...

Once an old man and a young man were sitting on the shore of a wild and stormy river. "Master," the student asked, "why does the time flow straight, but always ripples, either slowing down to a complete stop, or racing like a cow with a thistle under her tail?" The teacher looked at the seething water and answered: "You see there are a few large stones in the river and a lot of small pebbles. Imagine that the river is your life. If you will only rejoice over big occasions – like your wedding that will happen next month, or like a new baby that you will have after one year, or new business that you will start after five years… – then you will cross your life in a few jumps, like jumping from one stone to another. Otherwise, if you will move in small paces over the pebbles, taking joy in small things: a sunny day, the beauty of autumn forest, a good conversation, then later looking back at your life you won’t see ten big stones, but lots of your own traces, and ...

One businessman was in debt and couldn’t figure out a way out of it. Creditors were pressing him. Suppliers were demanding for a payment. He was sitting on a bench in the park with his head down, thinking what could save the company from bankruptcy. Suddenly, an old man appeared in front of him. – I see that something is bothering you, – he said. After listening to the businessman, the old man said: – I think I can help you. He asked the businessman, what his name was, wrote him a check and said: – Take this money. We will meet here exactly in one year, and you will be able to return it to me at that time. After that, he turned around and disappeared just as suddenly as he appeared. The businessman saw a check in his hands for an amount of 500 thousand dollars, signed by John Rockefeller, one of the richest people in the world at that time! 'I could end all of my problems in no time!’ – He thought. But instead, the businessman decided to put the check into his safe. Only one though...

One cowardly person came to a master of martial arts and asked to teach him bravery. The master looked at him and said: – I will teach you only with one condition: one month you will have to live in a big city and tell every person that you meet on your way that you are a coward. You will have to say it loudly, openly and looking straight into the person’s eyes. The person got really sad, because this task seemed very scary to him. For a couple of days he was very sad and thoughtful, but to live with his cowardice was so unbearable that he travelled to the city to accomplish his mission. At first, when meeting the passers, he quailed, lost his speech and couldn’t contact anyone. But he needed to finish the master’s task, so he began to overcome himself. When he came up to his first passer to tell about his cowardice, it seemed to him that he would die from fear. But his voice sounded louder and more confident with every passing day. Suddenly came a moment, when the man caught himself t...