Owe To Each Other

   In one way or the other we are in a position to owe to each other either directly or indirectly.But many times,we take many things granted,and comfortably forget the act of giving back happily in the same way or the possible,available way.This attitude is totally wrong and it leads to shrink our boundaries where a good
rapport among any sort of relationship surely get deteriorated.Deteriorating relationship is dangerous where
" Need in Indeed " act and fact would vanish in the thin air.Then everyone get isolated and the unwanted guest " Depression " would lead a permanent " Agony " in the life of every individual.

    To understand the concept " We Tend to Owe to Each Other " we shall go through the following parable.
In a village where there was no electricity.Every family in that village were using only earthen lamps as lights
to brighten their house after the Sun set.Usually in the villages,every house has a open front yard for various purposes.

   The front yard of one such house had been used by an alms seeker for quite a long time to have his meals and to sleep.The owner of that house was also quite generous as that of the whole village.So every night before the bedtime they had been waiting for the alms seeker to have his meals and to make his bed.It means they never closed the front door before the man settle down.It means, they had been helping the man to have the same light from the earthen lamp from their house to finish his cores.

     The time came for the alms seeker to leave this world to reach God's abode.He was waiting in front of the God along with the others to know his next project and the instructions from the God  for the related project.His turn came.God said," My dear friend!I am quite pleased to see you again after completing your assigned project successfully without giving any sort of wounds to any one else.I bless you.Here is your next project.i.e.Thanks giving project ".The man was with all his ears.The God continued, " As being an alms seeker in your previous incarnation and as you had been getting some place and light for your cores from that particular family in that village,I think now it is the time for you to pay back them ". The man was still in keen attention.

   " You may wonder how to pay back them? I will tell you.They have their own farm land.As the house owner became so old and their sons are far away from their home town on their occupation purpose,the owner of the land finds it difficult to find a servant to govern his far away farm land.And you are the person to guard that farm land as an invisible creature".

   The man happily accepted the God's project and came back to this world to pursue his duty as a thanks-
giving gesture.One day while he was on his duty,he happened to hear a boiling conversation between a father and his son.They seemed to be working in a family for three generations to govern their farm land belonged to some other village .The invisible man with all his curiosity  lent his ears to them.

   Father,"Son! It is totally unfair! We have been working for this kind and good family for three generations.They have a good faith on us.So, as usual, they have sent us to market their huge harvested grains.For their generosity they have got good money for their good grains.If you want to lay your hand on this money,it would be sin forever for our whole family.I never allow you to do this evil thing at any cost ". Son, " My dear father ! I think you are unnecessarily worrying about all this simple matter.If we take a part of money for our well being from this huge amount how come they know? In fact we deserve to have a bit more as we have been working for them for three generations.So stop worrying and start acting as a clever man ".But his father was not at all ready to go against his good master.

    At that time the arguing father and the adamant son could hear a chuckling.They looked for the person
all around.Nobody was there.They got bewildered.Again the same voice continued." Friends! Don't get scared.If you are kind enough, please lend your ears to me to tell my story ". He narrated his story and finally finished saying," As I utilized the house owner's open front yard and the light from his earthen lamp,the God assigned me the job to govern his farm land in an invisible manner, as a gesture of gratitude .If so, I am afraid to think about your next project that is going to be assigned by the God for your ingratitude to your kind master ".

  So it is the time for us to think about ourselves.We tend to owe each other for umpteen times for umpteen good reasons.So let us start it with our parents,our siblings,our education,our teachers and mentors,our life-partners,our business partners,our children,our relatives,our friends,our neighbors,our location,our carrier,our society,our nation and so on.We shall honor this owing to each other gesture throughout our life in a graceful manner.


   

4.Happy giving is the Godliness.

   Happy giving in its simple version, seems to be easy.But in real life the easiness depends on the depth of the love and respect prevailing between the donors as well as the recipients.Some episodes on this topic are unbelievable.The amazing intimacy between the two concerned side, is nothing else but based on the welfare of the each other.This sort of relation is very closely related to the greatness of Godliness.

    There was a Kingdom where a warm atmosphere was being experienced by the subjects of that Kingdom.In the King's Court of that Kingdom, there was an eminent wise Astrologer who had the power to predict every forth coming events.So the Kingdom followed his humble suggestions for the welfare of the Kingdom.As every thing was predicted well in advance and as the measures were taken according to the humble suggestions of the Astrologer,every thing was going on as usual and people were in their comfort Zone.

    One day as usual,the King's court proceedings were on their way.As usual,the King asked the revered Astrologer,"Our honorable Astrologer of this blessed court! is there any prediction for the welfare of our State?Is there any good suggestions from your side to be followed for the same welfare of the State".The
Astrologer with all smiling face," Our honorable King! No problem with our state.Everything is quite all right. But,".....the Astrologer did hesitate a lot.

   The King raised his eyebrows with big question mark on his face,"What is the matter wise man? What ever it is please let the matter come out".The Astrologer in his humble voice," Your Majesty! Still I have no idea about revealing my personal wish.My Lord! personally I have a queer wish.And at the same time I dare not to come out with it".He stopped for a while.After a good and kind persuasions the Astrologer came out of it with great hesitation." Your Majesty!our great festival falls on tomorrow where pulling the big Chariot would be the prime event.But according to our custom, the King only has the right to hold the rope along with the divine people to draw the Chariot.But with your permission I would like to draw the Chariot.So Kindly  honor me as a 'King'for that event alone".

   The whole court was shell shocked.After a while,the King came to his consciousness and uttered with all his kind voice," Our honorable Astrologer!No problem with it.You deserve it".Then the ceremony of making the astrologer as the King of the nation was done and this news had been announced to the whole nation which became perplexed.

   The next day the event came.The Astrologer as the king was made to stand in an honorable position near the Chariot.When at the time of good omen,the Chariot was being drawn on his usual path.But Alas!
unexpectedly some sort of mishap happened.The next moment the new King was happened to be under the
big wheel of the Chariot and his fate ended there itself.

   The next day,there was a messenger came to meet the King.He handed a message to the sad King.The message went like this.

   "Our honorable King!
                                     Let God bless you a long life for the welfare of our state.I would like to disclose the truth to you.As usual when I examine the welfare of our Honorable king and our State through Astrology,I came to know that on our festival day, the king of this State would be under that big wheel of the Chariot.
On behalf of people of our state I don,t want to lose of our great,kind honorable King with whom the whole state has been blessed with his humble rule.So I took this decision.
                                                                                                                  Yours sincerely,
                                                                                                                    The Astrologer.

3.Happy Giving is the Godliness.

   Giving is good.Happy giving is so good.Hence it is termed as Godliness.Here one more example to enlighten that Godliness from our ancient History.

   There was a Kingdom.The King was really a good king.His subjects had a happy living and were pleased to be ruled under this King.In ancient days it was a custom that poets were to be revered and honored through various ways.Some were placed in the high office in the King's court which was more or less equal to the the minister cum adviser to the King which was considered to be a prime post in the King's court.Many were honored by the whole territory of the many kingdoms, by offering them so many valuables of different kinds.

   In this particular Kingdom the King was ruling well and he was in the good books of his subjects.His fame and name were impeccable.But the Kings's younger brother,who had a corrupt mind and no heart was jealous over his elder brother's name and fame.He decided to grab the kingdom from his elder brother through unethical measures.

   So he decided to kill his brother.With the help of the same corrupt minded and having no hearts associates,he came out with a wicked plan.Knowing his plot,the King's loyal courtiers helped the King to have a good escape and made him to live in the forest with some basic facilities for some period to place the things back in order in the Kingdom.The enraged younger brother announced a hefty reward for his elder brother's,the absconding King's head.Then,the younger one started ruling the Kingdom.

   After some period,a poet who had no knowledge about all these ill health atmosphere of the Kingdom,had come to pay his usual visit.At that Kingdom's boundary itself he came to know about the ill fate of the country.With the help of one loyal friend of the former King,he reached the King's dwelling place.

   On seeing the good royal King's very ordinary state,the poet was so sad and kept on lamenting about the present state of the King with real concern.But the Great King brushed all the laments of the poet aside,
and told,"My dear friend! I don't bother about my present state.All my bothering are about my position of inability to offer you something".His watering eyes were glaring the ground.

   After a little while, the Kings's face enlightened with good happiness.He turned to the poet," My friend! by God's grace,I have something to offer you.My younger brother has announced a good reward for my head.Through beheading my head you can get a good reward which may help you to bring some comfort into your life ".

   The next moment,the great poet headed towards the ruling king's courtyard and uttered," My respectful regards to the present King.I would like to present some special gift to the present King.Without having any knowledge I visited your place as usual.I came to know about the present position of your country.With the help of one reliable person I went to meet your brother.With all his good heart,your brother offered his head to me in order to get a good reward from you to bring some comforts into my life ".

   The court was awestruck.The poet in a very ordinary tone," My Highness! Still you want such a great soul's head means,I will be back with the same ".The younger brother understood his grave mistake and with all his remorse he accompanied the great poet cum the great saviour,to bring back the real king,his elder brother to honor him. 

2.The blessed fruit.

   In one of the Indian regional language literature,some episodes based on happy giving were wonderful.The real  intensity of the intention of giving is spectacular.Through those good people's righteousness only,the earth could survive for millions and millions of years even though it has to face with so many natural and man made disasters.

   Here one such episode. One King and he was known and honored  and was celebrated  for his high generosity.He was such a good king who ruled his country as well as the heart of his subjects.

   Once, by chance the king got a fruit of an ordinary kind but with a special future.i.e.Whoever eats that fruit they would be blessed with long life.The king saved and gave that special fruit to a ripe,revered poetess of his period.The poetess asked the good king, for the reason why she has been given that special fruit instead of having it himself.

   The high generous King answered," My honorable poetess!This is what I feel.King may and King may go;But revered poet, and poetess like you are treasures for our kingdom and our subjects.We are blessed with you people to guide our Kingdom and our subjects to lead a value based life,through your immortal writings.Your writings bring peace and prosperity to every one's life.So I feel you are right person to have this special fruit and you deserve it".

  When we think ourselves that we must be in the family to make it as a whole means we are ready to pay a special care on the welfare of the every member of the family.Like this the King was of in the opinion that any King may rule a Kingdom.But the subjects' peace and prosperity depends on a serene atmosphere.He felt that revered poets can create and maintain that serene atmosphere better than a king, in a kingdom and the places where ever they visit,through their thought provoking and immortal poems.So let their works rule the earth for its welfare.Hence they need a long life to keep going with their humble works.So he offered that special fruit to that revered poetess.   

1.Happy Giving is the Godliness.

   Giving is the process of goodness.Happy giving is the process of Godliness.But to many of us giving seems to be a wrong process.To their perspective getting is only the right process.More than that they are of in the opinion that those who are on the giving process are not sensible.But you see, ' Giving ' and especially 'Happy Giving ' is the feeling of contentment which is possible only for the " God's Children ",who are adding good respect to their names and their lives.

   In one of the Indian epics " Mahabharata " the character named  " Karna " is ever known for his " Happy giving " as his identity.It is narrated that once his brothers were not happy with  Karna's name and fame for his nature of happy giving.Once they had a debate with their family friend, " Lord Krishna ", that it wouldn't be fare to give that " Great Pride"  to Karna as the happiest giver to anything to anyone.If anyone has the things sufficient,then there would be no problem in "Happy Giving".

   Then Lord Krishna took them to a hill side where they could spot two golden hills.Lord Krishna asked them to dispose the whole gold of that golden hills by Sunset.They were very happy.They tried their best to give those gold to as much people as possible.Even after the Sunset,they were not able to dispose even a smaller part of the gold.They challenged Lord Krishna,that using all the efforts of all those brothers' they tried their best to dispose the gold before Sunset.But in vain means,how could Karna would do all alone?.Lard Krishna assured them that it would be possible for Karna. Karna's brothers were curious.

   Lord Krishna called Karna and explained the task to him with the same condition. Karna told," Why would I want that much time "?.He called two passersby and asked them to take the golden hills for one each and left the place.Lord Krishna could not help smiling at Karna"s brothers.

  Still in India when one is with good generosity,he would be called in the name of Karna. It means Karna's name has been blessed with immortality for his happy giving.