Hari
OM
Story-day is for cultural exploration, puraanas and
parables and finding out about leading lights in spiritual philosophy.
One of the traps of life is having to balance everything. Whether at
family level or national. Aesop had this to say:
The Father and His Two Daughters
A MAN had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the
other to a tile-maker. After a time he
went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and
how all things went with her. She said,
"All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there
may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well
watered." Not long after, he went
to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how
she fared; she replied, "I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that
the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks
might be dried." He said to her,
"If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of
the two am I to join my wishes?'
It is just not possible to please all of the people all of the time.
We sometimes have to make hard choices, at the risk of causing upset or
hostility. What is important is that we make our decisions based upon the best
available information and allowing for local 'climate'.
