Satyam Shivam Sundaram: THE PLEASURES OF READING

Satyam Shivam Sundaram: THE PLEASURES OF READING:                                                       (jai ma kali)           THE PLEASURES OF READING         ***************************...

THE PLEASURES OF READING

                                                      (jai ma kali)
          THE PLEASURES OF READING
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    It cannot be impugned that one of the best forms of recreation is Reading books. It is easily available, conducive to the health of body as well as health of mind and elevation of the spirit.
   "Books,"said Milton,"Are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them so active as the soul whose progeny they are." Indeed books are our best companion, guide and adviser. Reading books gives us great pleasure.
  Reading is a pleasure that pays its own way.It is the cheapest mode of recreation.The briefest interval of leisure can be made delightful bu it. The obscurest village offers opportunities for the gratification of this taste.
   Reading is a recreation of which the pleasures and the profits are out of all proportion to the amount of time we devote to it. It is a pleasure which is absolutely innocent, free from the faintest taint of vice or wrong, strong and thrilling while it lasts, soothing and elevating when it is dropped.
          ------------DEVENDRA SRIVASTAVA
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WHEN I FELT INNER HAPPINESS

                                                              jai ma kali
  WHEN I FELT INNER HAPPINESS
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  Once I went to a small restaurant for taking my lunch. As my order arrived I happened to notice a pair of small eyes peeping wishfully through the outside window at the victuals served on the various tables.I gesticulated to the small boy to come inside. He came in hesitatingly. I made him sit and asked him what he wanted to eat. The poor chap pointed at the plate full of scrumptious victuals at my table.
   I ordered another plateful. When the food was served, he could not contain his excitement and started gulping down the nosh. When he finished, a winsome smile beamed on his lips.Casting a thankful glance at me, he quit happily. I really felt inner happiness. I had not eaten my food, but I felt myself full to the brim.
  I asked for the bill. My eyes filled with tears to see that the bill had no amount but a message that read," We don't have a machine that can bill humanity. May good happen to you !"
-------------------(DEVENDRA SRIVASTAVA)
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