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Monday, June 27, 2005

The rolling stone

Once there was marble, which was able to roll fast and decided to go around the world. It completed several rounds around the world. It paid little attention to the fellow marbles on its way and did not bother to acknowledge the greetings of trees, plants and grass etc. They all became angry and complained to god that the marble is not paying due respects to them. God decided to teach the marble a lesson. So he flattened a portion of the marble so that he could not roll fast. Marble became very sad and still continued its journey.

It was rolling slowly. It could see the green grass, yellow corn fields etc. It enjoyed the chirping of birds and dancing of peacocks on its way. It never realized earth is such a beautiful place and it thanked god for His punishment. God appeared in front of the marble and told that he punished it only for its betterment.

posted by P B at 8:51 AM

19 Comments:

  • indha mathiti kutti kutti kathaigal appo appo eduthu vida vendiyadhu than.

    By Blogger P B, at 2:22 PM  

  • அன்புள்ள முத்துகுமார் அவர்களுக்கு,

    அருமையான கருத்து......

    'பறந்து பறந்து' நாட்களை மறக்கும் மனிதர்கள் மனதில் பதிந்தால் சரிதான்...

    வாழ்த்துக்கள்...

    என்றும் அன்புடன்,
    ரங்கநாதன்

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:17 PM  

  • Nalla kutti kadhai ! Continue on !

    By Blogger dinesh, at 9:36 AM  

  • PB,
    good one. ippo dhan ungala blogroll pannen. vithiyasamana sindhanai konda aala irukeenga :-)

    By Blogger sb, at 10:21 AM  

  • umesh:
    Another thing to notice is when we are in mad rush for anything, we fail to notice finer details of life. When God interfers by placing hurdles in our path, we check ourselves back and seek for guidence.

    By Blogger P B, at 10:37 AM  

  • Rnaganathan, SB and dinesh:
    Thanks, aana it is not my original story. Must have studied something like this somewhere. I don't remeber what and where I exactly studied. Just used this story to convey some thot of mine. Hope you all know how "Indran" clipped off the wings the "mountains" possessed. Athu kooda idhu mathiriyana kadhai than.

    - PB

    By Blogger P B, at 10:39 AM  

  • Enaku idha accept pannika konjam kashtama iruku.

    Marble adhu pattuku adhoda objective-a follow pannitu iruku. Adhoda aim is to roll fast and to go around several times. meaning it is experimenting with itself. Mathadhu complaint pannadhuku kadavul punish panradhu sariya illanu thonudhu.

    When marble is doing its work/duty ( ie. rolling as fast as he could to see the world several times) should not other elements understand this? I would probably think that they should acknowledge that.

    -vv

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:49 AM  

  • GOd solradhu than final..here God is the author :=). Still, this story tells that when you feel like you are punished, instead of lamenting, one must feel, the higher forces intervened to give you right direction. Goals and Means are known only to God not to human beings. This is the essence of devotion.

    By Blogger P B, at 12:42 PM  

  • Still, this story tells that when you feel like you are punished, instead of lamenting, one must feel, the higher forces intervened to give you right direction. Goals and Means are known only to God not to human beings. This is the essence of devotion.

    baley !

    -Vasu

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:25 PM  

  • Most of us are like this marble. We fail to realise the beauty of the world and are in a mad rush for materialistic aim. As robert pirsig eaplains in this book the zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, we climb a hill to reach there. But when we reach there, we realise that our "there" is not here but shifted to there.

    And the beauty is when your god comes and "punish" us, we try even more to roll faster in the name of overcoming failure and because of friction, the rolling marble becomes sphere again albeit after some hardwork and its on the roll yet again!!!!!!!!!

    By Blogger The Soul Doctor, at 4:42 PM  

  • Karthik
    That is wat god exactly wants..I think the stone did not stop. He wanted it to understand HIM better.

    By Blogger P B, at 4:51 PM  

  • Super, PB. I liked this very much.

    By Blogger The Doodler, at 5:41 PM  

  • All that I could make out from this story is that over-confidence leads to arrogance...
    sari thaane PB? Or is there more to it?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:34 PM  

  • nice one muthukumar !

    By Blogger Viji Sundararajan, at 3:50 AM  

  • If all of god's punishments are for one's betterment, then isnt the word "punishment" a misnomer?

    By Blogger Prabhu, at 9:46 AM  

  • Very true, God is with full of compassion. He is the greatest teacher. A good teacher punishes the student for his own betterment. Untill student does not know that, he keeps lamenting teacher is unfair to him. When he gets the fruit of his mentored ways he praises his HIM. (say when a poor student because of rigorous training gets through the exam - he knows teacher was actualy so kind to him). GOd comes to man as Guru.

    By Blogger P B, at 9:50 AM  

  • yeh..its a nice one pb!!!

    By Blogger Maayaa, at 5:44 PM  

  • PB, Nice one .. I liked very much ..Podra aasaamingala nambathey !

    Blog-a padikamyayey Comment adikaraanga ! Ennala mudinja udaviya seyarain !

    -Vasu

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:25 PM  

  • aww this is real nice

    most of us are similar to theb marble...we fail to understand and see what is in front of us..all of us rush thro this madenning rat race sadly...its goto change

    By Blogger Irritating specimen, at 11:45 PM  

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