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.   Once there was a butterfly. It had a child who was very young. The child crossed the larva stage and became a pupa. The child wanted to prolong its pupa stage and rest while the parent wanted it to come out of the pupa stage and spread its wings. The parent butterfly was upset because the child does not want to spread its wings in the right time which may limit the flying capacity of the child when it becomes a butterfly. The pupa wanted to feed more because it believed that feeding more would make its body more powerful. The butterfly was deeply concerned about the child.  Out of concern and desperation, the butterfly scolded the pupa saying “Do not become a parasite, you are becoming my liability”. The pupa out of anger told the parent, “You have no concern for me. I do not want to be your liability. I will fly away from the home once I get freedom and strength in the wings". The butterfly explained its child with a smile "My dear child we both want the same thi...

  In Ramayana there was a very powerful King called Vali who used to rule Kishkindha. He had a quarrel with his brother Sugriva. Vali abused and dethroned Sugriva and also seized Sugriva's wife. On the request of Sugriva, Lord Rama came for Sugriva's help. It was mentioned that Vali had special powers in combat. When any opponent comes face to face with him, Vali used to drain off half of his opponents energy and merged it with his energy and used to grow more powerful. Rama knew about this very well and he made sure that he doesn't fight face to face with the King Vali. He shot an arrow standing behind a tree aiming the back of the Vali and killed him. Even a great warrior like Rama has to change his approach while dealing with the one who grab off opponents energy.  When our attention comes across a thing outside us or a thought arising within us two things happen parallelly. We experience a thing or a thought . At the same time we  give off some energy to it in...

  There was a fisherman who used to catch a lot of fish from an ocean. He used to throw a fistful of bait in the water. The fishes used to rush to the surface water to get the bait and the fisherman used to throw the net over them. A lot of fish were being taken away from the ocean. The fishes in the ocean were deeply upset because daily they used to lose their near and dear to the net of the fisherman. The helpless fishes finally went to a turtle at the bottom of the sea telling them about their problem and requested it to save them. The wise turtle who is well acquainted with the human beings reassured them and gave them an idea.  One fine morning the fisherman came in his vessel for fishing. The fishes started executing their plan. The first shoal of small fish appeared in front of the fisherman even before he threw the bait. The fisherman was happy to throw the net and he captured them. He felt this catch is enough to fulfil his hunger for the day. He thought of returnin...

  A Raja Guru was asked to train the five princes in Archery. He placed a toy bird on the branch of a tree and asked each one of them to aim at the eye of the bird. The Guru asked each one of them to tell what they could see. The eldest prince said that he could see the tree, its branches, the bird and its eye. The next one told he can see the branch on which the bird is sitting, along with the bird. The third prince told he can see the bird and its eye. The fourth one told he can see only the head of the bird and its eye. Finally, the fifth one told that he can see only the eye of the bird and nothing but the eye. The fifth prince hit the bird's eye while other princes missed their target.  The Guru asked what was running in their mind when they were aiming at the bird. The eldest of them told that he was concerned that the arrow may disturb other birds sitting on the tree. The second one was wondering how good the fruit hanging besides the bird would taste.  Another p...

Once there was a powerful King X. The King Y of the neighboring kingdom wanted to conquer King X’s kingdom. He knows that King X is too powerful to wage war against him. The King Y was struggling about how to plan an invasion. Meanwhile an astrologer visited the King X. He told that his predictions can change the fate of King X and expand his kingdom. King X wanted to give a try and he asked the astrologer to stay in the palace. One day the astrologer predicted that 3 thieves would be attempting a theft in the royal treasury to night. The soldiers protecting the treasury were alerted. As told by the astrologer the thieves came and were caught. The King was surprised. Few days later the astrologer predicted that there would be attack on the eastern border of the kingdom by King Y’s army. The border security was beefed up and the attempt was effectively curbed by King X. The King X felt very happy with the astrologer. The astrologer told that an assassin was sent by King Y. His plan was ...

     There was drought in a village. People were worried because there was no water source for the village. Years of suffering continued. A young man in a village had a plan to solve this problem. He convinced the people of the village to help him in executing the plan. As per the plan the people of the village built a check dam across the nearby river. Each person in the village was asked to give hundred digs per day into the soil with spades. With each day of digging the paths through which the water flows started taking shape.  Finally, the canals were dug towards the village into the channels in the fields. When reservoir of the dam got filled. The water reached the fields through canals and channels. The village became prosperous.     Visible  karma is just the replica of invisible karma: Even before the visible karma (digging of irrigation canals) took place there was an invisible karma (imagining a blue print and having a conviction to execu...