Ganesha and the Little Boat of Faith

Madhav was a little boy who lived near a beautiful river. Every day, he crossed the river in a small wooden boat to go to school.

One evening, as Madhav was returning home, dark clouds covered the sky. Suddenly, it began to rain heavily.

The wind became strong, and the little boat started moving from side to side.

Madhav became frightened. “What should I do? What if the boat turns over?”

He held the oar tightly, but the more frightened he became, the harder it was to think.

Then he remembered what his grandmother always told him:

“When you are afraid, don't let fear make your decisions. First, become calm.”

Madhav closed his eyes. He folded his hands and prayed, “Ganesha, please give me courage and wisdom.”

He took a deep breath. Then he remembered his mother's teaching:

“When the river becomes rough, don't fight it. Watch the water and guide the boat carefully.”

Madhav opened his eyes.

The storm was still there.

But now he was calm.

He slowly guided the boat towards the riverbank.

One stroke of the oar…

Then another…

Soon, Madhav reached the shore safely.

His mother was waiting for him.

Madhav hugged her and said,

“Amma, I was very scared. I prayed to Ganesha, and then I remembered what you taught me.”

His mother smiled.

“That is the strength of prayer, Madhav. God does not always remove the storm. Sometimes, He gives us the courage and wisdom to cross it.”

That night, Madhav stood before Ganesha and smiled.

“Ganesha, You didn't stop the rain.”

“But You helped me stay calm.”

“And You reminded me what to do.”

Madhav finally understood:

Prayer does not always change the situation.

Sometimes, prayer changes us.

It gives us a calm mind, a brave heart and the faith to take the next step.

🙏 A Little Prayer

Dear Ganesha,

When I am afraid, make me calm.
When I am confused, give me wisdom.
When life is difficult, give me courage.
Help me trust You and do what is right.

Sharanam Ganesha. 🙏 

Today's Lesson

When life gets difficult, stop worrying, start praying with trust in Ganesha.🙏 

Wish You All A Very Happy Independence Day!!!!!!!

 

Beautiful Sunrise

Chirping of Lovely Birds

Kids In White Dresses

Indian Flags In Their Hands. 

All Age Population

Singing National Anthem

Conveying Salutation 

To All Freedom Fighters

And Offering Prayers 

For Well Being of Our Nation. 

Many Kids Happily Dancing

Singing Many Patriotic Songs

Spreading Awareness of 

How Our Freedom Fighters

Fought For The Freedom of Our Country. 

Lets All Stand For A Moment

Salute & Respect All Our Martyrs

And With Proud & Pride Say,

Happy To Be Born As An Indian.

Mother Earth I Bow To You

For All Your Love, Care & 

For Supporting Us In All Calamities. 

Mahatma Gandhiji Always 

Stressed On Peace &Non-Violence

Lets All Bow To Such A Great Legend.

He Is Been Such A Great Idol For All Of Us :) :)

  Lets All Hoist Indian Flag Along With National Anthem!!!!!!!!

Jai Janardhana Krishna

A Song Sung By 3 Year Old Girl. Beautiful Fantastic Melodious Gifted Girl :) :)

Beautiful Story of Friends :) :)

Anchal was a sweet, soft-natured and a charming girl. Every evening, she would go to the park, feed the ducks by the pond, sit on her favorite bench with a book in hand and greet all the passers-by. People loved her for her charm. They would compliment her for that and say that it made their day. Even gloomy looking people would go back happy after having a look at her. On one such evening, Anchal saw a girl sitting aloof and crying. Anchal felt sorry for her. She went across to her, introduced herself and sat down beside her. The girl looked back and introduced herself as Toya, meaning water. Anchal told her not to be sad and asked her to look at the evening sky with all of its myriad colors, so that she could see the Hope-Fairy. Sure enough, Toya found the Hope Fairy (the tiny patches that look like rainbows when the eyes are moist)  and smiled. Toya started to like Anchal. From that day onwards, Toya wold join Anchal in feeding the ducks and greeting people. For them, the day would seem incomplete till they spent time with each other. They became really close to each other.
 
One fine day, Anchal started getting hate mails. The mails would just not stop. Every day a new one would pop-in in her inbox and this started to upset her. She shared this with Toya and asked her who would hate her so much. Toya said she was equally surprised and shocked. They both decided to ignore those mails. After a few days, Anchal broke the news that she would be getting married in a few weeks time. From the next day, the amount of hate mails simply doubled. Then Anchal got pre-occupied with her wedding celebrations and stopped going to the park. Toya would sit alone on the bench each day and feed the ducks thinking of good times. 
 
Next morning, there were more hate mails in Anchal's inbox. Anchal showed all of those mails to her husband and they decided to go to a different country.  That evening, Anchal met Toya to tell her that she wouldn't be able to join her from the next day as they would be relocating. Toya was upset and cried. Anchal reminded her to look up at the sky for the Hope Fairy whenever she felt like crying as that would make situations a lot simpler. Toya promised her that she would follow that.

After a few years, even after a couple of new mail id's and a couple more of relocation's, the amount of hate mails had only increased. To Anchal, it was like a routine. As long as she didn't receive a hate mail, she couldn't sleep peacefully. To her, it was like a part and parcel of life. She had stopped worrying about them. She infact, had started looking forward to them. Then one fine day, she decided to meet her old friend, Toya and visited their old place, the bench in the park and sat down there, feeding the ducks. Suddenly, there was a gasp and she looked back to see Toya standing there. They both were happy to have met after such a long time. Then, they shared their anecdotes in life and updated each other on the happenings in their lives. 

Anchal handed over an envelope to Toya before she left and asked her to read it by the weekend and made her promise that she wouldn't open it early.
That weekend, Toya opened the letter, and began to read through. It read,
    Dear Toya,
    By the time, you read this letter, I might have finished my days on Earth. I came to meet you because I was counting the days in my life. I was suffering from cancer, the first time when I met you.
    It only got advanced with time. We changed locations to meet different doctors so that we could look for a cure, but in vain. Do you remember the hate mails that I would keep getting everyday? It     only became more in number. You know, that was the only thing that kept me going till now. Things like that can happen only when you do something right and there is someone who is jealous of that.
    I got to know who that was, the day I received the mails even when I changed my mail-id. I knew it was you, Toya, all the time. So, I stopped feeling scared and started looking forward to it     because that would mean that you are fine and things are going on great with you. Why were you jealous of me, Toya? What had I done to you? It might be too late for an apology now since you     cannot reach me in the place where I am. I hope you give up that attitude in you and change for the better. Now, please stop crying, there is still hope for you. Change for the better and whenever     you feel like crying, look up at the sky and find the Hope Fairy.
    Love,
    Anchal
Toya was filled to the brim, with pangs of guilt. She just couldn't forgive herself for the mistake that she had committed. She couldn't stop crying. She looked up at the sky to find the Hope Fairy but instead saw a Rainbow, the one that Anchal used to believe that would appear when you decide to change for the better !!! She missed Anchal....

PS :- Dearies, This Story Is Composed By My Friend Sowmya :) :)

Ugadi Greetings :) :)

Wish You All A Very Happy New Year :) :)

SECOND CHANCE!!

Sia was a simple and sweet-natured girl with an attitude that was very different from others. She never used to involve herself in the kind of stuff that girls of her age would usually indulge in. She was very daring and straight-forward in her approach to situations in life. She was a very happy-go-lucky kind of girl. She was very confident in her approach towards life and believed that everything happened for a reason and so she never felt the need to plan anything. She would just let things happen and then take the situation to her advantage. In short, she believed in living life at the moment for she felt the next moment was uncertain. She only believed in herself and never relied on anything or anybody other than her. She had a lot of acquaintances but very few friends. She could sacrifice her life for her friends and her friends were ready to do the same for her. So she never had the need to look up to anybody else. She always felt that she would never fall for any guy in life. 

One day, there came a guy, called Swayam, who was very much like Sia in everything. Since their attitudes matched, and their thinking resonated each other, they soon became best friends. Sia never wanted any other feelings to develop between them but Swayam was ready to give his life for her, or so she felt. Not even once, did they think of putting a toe out of the line. One day, they realised they loved each other beyond words and were very happy in their life when, like a storm in the sea, Swayam suddenly said he was never serious about her. She had never imagined staying without him even in her wildest dreams and he accused her of using him for her selfish motive. Sia was shocked beyond everything else. She went into a depression and was treated by a psychiatrist for two months. 

During that time, one of her relative, a guy called Sukhi, a guy with a smile like his name, came forward to marry her at the cost of his parents' happiness but Sia was scared of going to the psychiatrist again in her life. So she stepped back from the proposal. By then Sia's parents got her married to a guy who was initially the soft-spoken, sweet-natured, humble guy but after the bethrotal, he changed a lot. He gave her mental tension to the extent that she thought of committing suicide twice. She felt that all the happiness in her life was no longer real. It was all an illusion. She tried to find happiness but in vain. Sia started getting nightmares in her sleep. She was losing her cool. She was getting weaker by the day. She cursed herself for having considered Swayam as her best friend. He never deserved the respect or emotion that she had showered upon him. She was not able to get adjusted to the new guy in her life. She realised how much she hated guys all her life, but now she was feeling was getting only stronger by the day. She started losing trust and hope in everything. She felt she would lose whatever she considered close to her. 

One night, she had a dream. A dream about a monkey and a running horse. She could figure out what it was. Two days later, the dream repeated but this time in a different way. She dreamt that her soul was taken away from her body and was in queue to be decided whether it must be sent up or down. When it was almost her turn, a monkey appeared out of nowhere and threw a stick at her and woke her up. Sia was very confused. She couldnt understand. She had set aside some time every day as realisation time during which she would recollect the previous day's events and conversation with different people. It was then that she understood her dreams. She had read in one of the holy scriptures that every night when a person sleeps their soul is collected by the God of Death who takes it to his kingdom and checks with his books whether the soul has completed its time on Earth or not. If yes, then it would be sent for further scrutiny, to decide whether the soul must be kept with him or sent to heaven. If not, he returns it back to the body. Probably that is what happened to Sia. It was her turn in the queue, when suddenly the monkey-God appeared and stopped her from going inside. It said Sia still had something to do in life and returned her back to her body. It was then that realisatio dawned upon Sia that in the dream about the monkey and the running horse, the monkey was trying to make her look back at the running horse as if to tell that she should not be running away from her problems but instead face it by making her turn and look at the running horse. The running horse meant that she has to put more efforts into her life at present to achieve her goal and that she should not give up and continue to run like the horse. The whole picture dawned on her. It was the beginning of a new life for Sia. It was her second chance. She remembered the words of a wise old turtle "Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery but TODAY is a gift. That is why is called as PRESENT." She understood the meaning of her life. She decided to forget her past and work towards a new beginning and carve a niche little place among the stars. All she had to do was believe in herself. The dream just brought back the old Sia, the happy-go-lucky and brave Sia who only believed in herself. When she woke up from her dream, she made coffee for her husband, Samarth, who like his name had completed her jigsaw puzzle of life. He simply looked at her, smiled and said "Sia, Sweet Innocent And my LOVE." For the first time in a long while, she blushed.....

PS :- Dearies, Thanks A Lot For All Your Cherishable Compliments For Previous Post "Hesitant Smile"

PPS :- This Second Chance Is Composed By Sia!!

Hesitant Smile :) :)

 Today While Me & My Friend Were On Our Way To Mumbai Central, Through Churchgate Fast Local,  Me & My Friend Were Happily Conversing About Our Old Memories With A Extreme Broad Smiley Faces :) 

A Lady Approached & Asked Which IS The Next Station?? When She Was In The Process Of Questioning I Clearly Observed Her Way of Asking Question, With A Strict Face, Strict Voice, Strict Tone & Was Standing As A Statue. 

I Understand That, She Might Have Forgotten The Station Names Or She Might Be Tensed Whatsoever Her Situation May Be......But She Could Have Asked In A Melodious Tone......Atleast With A Smile!!!!!!

Seeing Her Tensed Face, I Gave Her A Broad Smile & Said, Aunt Its Vileparle!! Then, While Getting Down At Andheri, To Greet Me Gave A Hesitant Smile......I Didn't Ask Her To Smile. Even When I Gave A Broad Smile, She Didn't Even Think Of Hesitant Smile, But, While Getting Down, She Could Have Given A Pure Smile, But She Gave A Hesitant Smile!!!!!

I Am Not Making Out Other's Mistakes. I Just Shared This Incident, Since There Are/Might Have Happened[Both In Present & Past Tense] That, We Too Face Tensed Situation..But Being, Strict & Tensed Doesn't Help To Overcome Our Problem. So, Better & Best Way Is To Smile, SO That Self Confidence Will Increase[According To Me]!!

PS :- Many More Experiences In Local Trains, In Next Post :)