Thursday 30 May 2013

Draw Bigger Line …

 According to a fable of Akbar and Birbal, Akbar drew a line on a wall and asked to all subjects to make this line shorter without touching or removing any portion of this line. All people thought at every angle, but did not get any clue how to make it shorter without touching it. Birbal was a witty minister; he was well-known for his presence of mind and providing the solution of the complex problems. At last, Birbal took this challenge to make the line shorter without touching or removing any part of the line. Everyone was surprised how Birbal would do that. Birbal took a chalk and drew a bigger line parallel to the existing line. In comparison to the bigger line, the existing line was looking short. Birbal did it, without touching or harming the existing line. 

This small fable gives a good lesson to our life. If you are determined to excel someone in your life, do not harm that person. Generally, callous people try to pull leg or harm or disturb their competitor to excel from them. This is middling and malicious approach, to excel and soar in the life. In this way, you are preventing your advancement; you are just squandering your power and energy in a wrong way. You have capability to get entire gold mine, but you are getting satisfied yourself with nugget. You are trying to show, you are bigger not is positive way but in negative way. You want draw your competitor lower than your level, so that, you can visible bigger than your competitors. In this process, you did not progress at all; you are there, where you were. Do not think you become bigger. You again, will compare with someone, will try to use the same process. It is not sure that your competitor is getting impacted or not, but, it is sure that you become self-destructive of your growth and success. If you want to get grand success in your life, soar and excel in your life, do not try to pull leg and climb, it is not going to work. Slog more, learn more, think more, implement more, and do more than others do. You will achieve any height you think of, without violating anyone`s right. You will acquire your grand satisfaction and happiness in this process. If you want to take revenge from someone, take with grand success without harming that person. If you want to respond your criticism, do not respond with argument or verbal involvement, rather respond with those with your activities and success, and prove the critics wrong.


3 comments:

  1. Hi Manoj,
    The fable you mentioned, I am trying to find some source of it.
    Although I agree it doesnt matters where it comes from, rather matters is what does it mean, still during childhood i remember reading it from stories of Guru Nanak.
    You have any idea ?

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  2. Hi Himanshu,
    You are true.. the authenticity of these fables cannot be guaranteed. These kinds of fables are created to put the idea forward.
    However, you can get these fables from Akabr and Birbal stories book.

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  3. Quite interesting and thought provoking

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