NEITHER TOTALLY GOOD NOR TOTALLY BAD

                                                 (jai ma kali )
                        NEITHER TOTALLY GOOD
                         NOR TOTALLY BAD.
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 Once a young lad seeking admission to university was filling up the required application form. In reply to a request to 'list your personal strength', he very honestly scribbled," Sometimes I am
 trustworthy,
 loyal,
 helpful,
 friendly,
 courageous,
 clean,
 thrifty,
 brave,
 reverent."
   Further down the form, he came across a column requiring him to jot down his weaknesses. He doodled truthfully, "Sometimes I am not--
trustworthy,
loyal,
helpful,
friendly,
courageous,
clean,
thrifty,
brave,
reverent."
   This is actually more or less the case with most of the ordinary masses !!
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    No one is totally strong nor totally weak
                              &
No one is totally good nor totally bad .
               ----(DEVENDRA SRIVASTAVA)
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WORTH EMULATING

                                                       (jai ma kali)
                    WORTH  EMULATING
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   An eagle very well knows when a storm is going to break. To cope with the raging storm, it flutters to some high spot and wait for the winds to hit. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above the storm. The eagle does not escape the storm but it simply uses the storm to lift it higher.It rises on the winds that brings the storm.
  LESSON TO BE LEARNT----
     When the storms of life confront us, we, like eagle,ought to rise above them and ride the winds of storm that inflict upon us sickness, tragedy, failure and disappointment. Jot down your greatest challenge and then let it lift you higher !!
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NO GAIN SANS PAIN

                                                     (jai ma kali)
               NO GAIN SANS PAIN
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      It was bone-chilling winter. Many unfortunate critters gave up the ghost owing to intense algid. The hedgehogs chewed the cud for a way to be safe. They decided to huddle together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves.
    But the quills of each one wounded its closet companion. After a while, they distanced themselves , one from the other and they began succumbing to algid, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice-either to bear the quills of their pals or evanesce from the Earth. Wisely they decided to being huddled again. They learnt to live with the minor wounds caused by the close contact each shared with his companion in order to survive.
         Let us learn a lesson from the hedgehogs !!
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BEST POSITION

                                                        (jai ma kali)
                      BEST POSITION
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  Once upon a time a priest, a minister and a saint were engrossed in discussing about the best position for prayer while a telephone repairman worked nearby.
   " Kneeling is the best position for offering the prayer,"echoed the priest.
 "Nay,"trilled the minister,"The best way to pray is by standing with hands outstretched to Heaven."
  "You are both wrong,"interjected the saint,"The best way is by lying down on the floor."
  The telephone man butted," The best way for prayer is by hanging upside down from a telephone pole.
      All the three were speechless.
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EMPTY- HANDED

                                                       (jai ma kali)
                     EMPTY-HANDED
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  Once a grandson along with his spouse was making a jaunt to his granny's residence. His granny directed him,"You come to the front door of the apartment. I am in flat no 401. There is a big panel at the front door.Jab at the push button 401with your elbow.I will buzz you in. Come inside and the lift is on right. Enter the lift and press the button 401with your elbow. When you emerge out, I am on the left. With your elbow jab at my door bell button. Okay?"
    The grandson was a tad flummoxed. He trilled," But why I have to hit all the buttons by my elbow?Why not by hand?"
   The granny exploded,"What? Are you coming empty-handed ?"
         The grandson was speechless !
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I M P R O V E M E N T

                                                       (jai ma kali)

                      I M P R O V E M E N T

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     Once a little colleen was sitting on her grandfather's lap who was reading her a bedtime story. From time to time she would feel her grandpa's wrinkled cheeks. She was alternately stroking her own cheeks and then his again. Finally she blurted out," Grandpa, who made you ?"

  He answered," God made me.He made me a long time ago."

   " Did God made me too?," she chimed in.

" Yes indeed, He made you just a while ago."

 Feeling their respective faces again, she crooned," God is really improving at it.Is not HE?"

     The grandpa was speechless !

SHE WAS SPEECHLESS

                                                      (jai ma kali)
           SHE WAS SPEECHLESS
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    Once a docent was testing the children in her class whether they comprehended the concept of getting into the zion. She asked them," If I disposed off all my belongings and donated all my gelt for charity, would that get me into the zion ?"
   "No," chorused the chijdren.
Then she asked again," If I titivated the church everyday, mowed the yard and kept everything spic and span,would that make me entitled for getting into the paradise?"
 Again the answer was"No"
 The teacher was thinking her students were getting it!
  "Well,then,if I was compassionate to critters, gave candy to children, would that get me into the heaven.?, She asked again.
 Once again the answer was "No".
She was just bursting with pride for them."Well," she continued,"Then how can I get into the eden?"
   A five year old trilled," YOU HAVE TO BE DEAD."
       The docent was speechless !
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  ---------(DEVENDRA SRIVASTAVA)
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