Beautiful Thought

Thanks Manish for referral to this excellent post.

very...nice....really good thought....thanx for sharing

very good article, thnks for referring

Mr Kumbakonam, Srinivas ji, Murthy sir, the exercise attempted by Mr Kumbakonam was well-intentioned and every one must appreciate this. No "Sorry" is owed by anyone to anyone. Keep up the good work folks. Value addition to a post always is and should be welcome. Thanks to all the players in this little cameo started off by Ms Pooja.

very true and practical too.

good

A Nice posting. Shri Venkatraman added color to it. Rajeevji with his quote made it precious. Srinivasji, the most humble man, gave the finishing touch !!

REALLY NICE POST

Mr. Kumbakonam S Venkataraman, you need not say sorry to me or Mr. Rajeev. If there is something, its me to say sorry to you.  But, I have no intention to demean anyone here.  I was just kidding..  If I hurt the feelings of you and Mr. Rajeev with my comments, I am so sorry.  

awsme post mam.....

Dear Mr. Rajeev Sharma and Srinivas, 










Sorry. I certainly did not mean to berate the presentation of Ms. Pooja Joshi. Only because it is very good, I sought to construct upon it further. 

My only intention was that nobody should think that the story justifies inaction or timid 'peace at any cost' approach towards life.

Very good article mam,thanks for inspiring story Ms.Pooja.

Sonia and her party are doing the same with the Telangana Agitation

Great thought by Lord Buddha.
Thanks for referral, Manish.

even i have tried this approach many times and it really works.Not only it helps bring calmness to your mind but it protects the loss of work also.However i am having aquestion related to the story that how did the river knew that it should now settle the mud?really does this happens?So lets hope for the most polluted rivers of the country the same...Best of luck to Damodar and Yamuna

Rajeev ji, I got the message.  Thanks for the suggestion. When Mr. Kumbakonam mentioned that it is "misleading", I put those comments. 

While Mr Kumbakonam's inputs are valuable, I think one should look at the offered piece the way it is. Ms Pooja's story is beautiful as it is. At the same time if someone takes out time to present his/her own version as Mr Kumbakonam has done, there is no harm in that exercise either. Let me quote the great American poet in this context: DO I CONTRADICT MYSELF? VERY WELL, THEN I DO. I AM VAST. I CONTAIN MULTITUDES.

Editor ji, seems to have habituated to editing the write ups and try to put his finger and alter the entire write up. Lol.  

As it is, this is misleading. Just leaving things to settle down is not always correct. For example, let me alter the story a little:

"Just when the disciple was about to take water, a man sitting nearby threw a big stone in the lake and water became muddy. The disciple returned and came back after half an hour when the water had settled down. But when he was about to take water, alas, the rogue committed the mischief again; and this went on for the whole day..."
 
Buddha would have told his disciple in the first time itself, "I preached right action with love. You have wrongly chosen inaction with fear. Go back, do what is necessary to correct the fellow; making sure that your love for him never diminishes."

Rama killed Ravana only like this; without becoming angry with Ravana, without hating him in the least; without losing his charming, affectionate smile even for a moment.

Here the time is not the remedy. The real solution is human action; right intervention; objective performance.
 
If it came to that, the disciple should have beaten the rogue and driven him away. Only thing is that while doing so, he should have kept his mind unruffled.
 
The mind should be calm, without being disturbed by anger or enmity; should be spurred only by the sense of duty. Duty discharged in this manner is described as Dharma.

It is important for the global youth to understand Buddha in proper perspective.

This is a beautiful thought indeed !! Thanks for sharing it with us.. :)

Wow.  What a great explanation.  Madam Pooja you made your presence yet again here with a wonderful post. 

Time is the only remedy for many problems.  Keeping quiet would be the better strategy, especially when there is no immediate solution for any problem.   Any intervention in between will further deepen the problem some times.  Thank you very much for the post.

Really a nice article.... Thanks Pooja mam for sharing with us. 

Thanks for sharing ma'am:) a lovely insight :)Beautiful Thought 
by Lord Buddha

Great thoughts. Thanks for sharing.

great thought for life!!! thanks for sharing..

Hi its really amazing and quite inspirational me,i must thankfull Pooja,keep provide such kind of articles.nice one

Our polluted thought requires some cleansing agent, i.e. TIME!  Give your negative thought a sufficient time to get a crystal clear thought!  Thanks Pooja for sharing this wonderful story!

certainly makes an interesting and inspiring reading 

Excellent post