1.The Five Elements.

The Earth.

The first element of the Universe

Called by the name " The Earth ";

We blessed with it by Almighty,

Just let us protect it with our all " Mighty.

The Earth is so beautiful,

Filled with nature.so colorful.

It is not only with the pleasing nature

but with many resources to nurture.

The Earth's plain message clears;

The " Fact " to us with all it's cheers;

It's version " You live and let me live".

Or " By letting me die,let you die".

Why don't we heed its humble request,

To mend our ways as loving gesture;

The easiest thing in the world is being " Happy" 

When we understand the moral not " I " but " We ".

Being " We ", let me remind you the ways,

To be followed to keep our earth in its gay.

The ways are so simple to follow, no doubt;

If we are ready to be as " We " with no drought.

Here the ways one by one to remember,

The first step is to enroll yourself as firm member;

Make our firm " We " be a good reformer,

To bring a good awareness to every nook and corner. 

The next step,

                                      To be continued......

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.    

9.The Smart Strides of Small kids.

   When we talk with our kids,I think,we are not supposed to create an atmosphere that our kids  can act like elders on some occasions.Here is one such incident related to my elder angel daughter.

     When my elder daughter was in her third standard,one day my husband took her to a film.After getting the tickets,as they had some time to roam,they were watching the  film posters of the same film on the wall outside the theatre. While they were watching and roaming here and there my daughter lost the grip of her hand with her father and she held the hand of an unknown man without her knowledge.Usually my husband takes extra care on children at home as well as in the public places.However on that particular day something went wrong.

   After some seconds,my daughter realized that she was holding an unknown person without her knowledge.
She was bewildered.She looked around for her father and was in good relief that her father was still enjoyed watching the posters the other side.The second she found out her father, the same second, something brought my husband back to his world and his eyes happened to meet the eyes of his loving daughter.The panic in her eyes made him to repent a lot for his big mistake.

   He grabbed his daughter from the crowd,and put her on his shoulder and tried his best to minimize her bewilderment.He started saying something in the name of fun.You see my wise husband's dialogues with his sweet innocent daughter.

My Husband : "Honey! Where have you been?You are not supposed to leave Dad's hand you know!".

My daughter : "Bad Dad!Why did you let my hand off from yours?.

My Husband; "I am so sorry love!I should have been very careful ".

 She was yet to come out of her fear.

My Daughter : "What happened if I was not able to find you in this huge crowd?"

Pat came the wise answer.
     
My Husband : "As a matter of fact,it is so simple; You just go out and hire an Auto.As you know the

location and direction of our home,you just lead the Auto Man to our home ".(My daughter was made to

know about the  location and direction of our home for some good reasons ).

My Daughter : "What if I have no money to give him?".

My Husband : " Nothing to worry! After reaching home you get money from Mom and pay the Auto Man ".

    After the matter got cleared, I think she became so confident.So she did the same act in the same way
on some other day.

   Once,for some unexpected reason,her school had a half day session.i.e.Morning session was upto 12:30.Around 2:30 or so, by God's grace I happened to come out of the house for some reason.I saw some children of her school were roaming around with the school uniforms.After inquiring them,I got the matter.With much more horrified feelings I got back into home.My younger angel was about to sleep and she was waiting for me to accompany her.I told her the matter and left her to our nice neighbors and hired an Auto and went to school.Actually it happened like this.After hearing the announcement about the cancellation of one session, my daughter started playing with something in her class.So she failed to notice the deserted class.

   She got amused and headed towards the place where the school buses were usually made to wait for the school children.She couldn't spot even one bus.The bus assistant failed to notice my daughter's absence.My daughter waited there for some time.An Auto Man who seemed to be a regular Auto Man to a teacher who worked as the physical director, in the same school.So he was a known man to the most of the children of the school.On seeing a primary section girl playing all alone,he came near to her and inquired.

     He was a known man to my daughter too.Then, the Good and  Blessed Auto man told my daughter that he could help her to reach her home if she knew the location and direction of the house.My daughter agreed happily.The distance was around five kilo meters.More over she promised him to get his money from her Mother.When I reached the school no child was in the school premises.I went to the office of the school.It was locked.I searched around for some time and decided to come back home.If she was not there it would be better to inform my Husband.But I felt something that she would be at home.

   When I reached my neighbor house to take my younger one back,my elder one was also playing there with her sister.Could you imagine my huge, Himalayan relief on seeing my daughter back?.Then I came to know that as she promised to the Auto Man to get his money,she looked for me at our place.Knowing that I was off to school to take her back,she got the money from the same nice neighbor with profuse thanks and paid the same to the Auto Man with the same profuse thanks. And at the same time she didn't forget to promise our neighbor to pay back their money as soon as her mother arrived.  
       

8.The Smart strides of Small kids.

   As I observed we have a lot to learn from the kids's smartness to make our self as smarter as them.It looks like fun but it is the fact.

   One of my niece when she was in her primary section,she made her present at our place to celebrate her summer holidays with her other cousins.As usual they were enjoying themselves very well especially with water.At that time we were in my husband's office quarters where there was no water scarcity.The 24 hour water supply helped the kids to play with the water in various way through variety of noises.While they were playing they used to waste the cakes of soaps by dropping them in the bucket of water and never cared to take them back and keep them in their places.

One such occasion, I visited the bathroom to keep the things in order after the kids works got done in the bathroom.At that time my this particular niece was there.As usual I saw a cake of soap in a quarter bucket of water and the bucket  was in the corner of the bathroom.I thought that on hearing my foot steps, she might have dragged the bucket to the corner.Imagine the efficiency of our mind that it can fabricate the things comfortably in the wrong way,sometimes in the negative way with the apparent atmosphere, to convince ourselves that our assumptions are right.But you see! 90% of our assumptions would go wrong.

   That was one such wrong assumption of mine.I scolded her with some raised voice.With a perplexed face and with a confused voice she answered me with all her real innocent drawling voice," Aunt! I didn't do that.In fact I didn't see that.As you told to keep the soap in its place,I am following your instructions.You see! this is the soap I have used.I kept back in its place".I felt as if she slammed back with her real innocence.Still she has been with the same coolness even after having two kids to manage.But I have to learn that coolness all through my life.

    The other day of the same summer holidays we were at our native place.In one sweet morning,the same cool niece asked her grand mother for some small ropes.When she was asked for the reason she told in the same admirable innocent drawling voice," I would like to go with my friends to bring one bundle oftwigs".Her grand mother was so happy and with so many instructions to her and to her friends,her grand mother let her go.I thought all grand mothers of those kids might have given the same sort of instructions to their grand daughters and to their friends.

   Nearly lunch time arrived.But the kids didn't turn up.My niece's grand mother kept lamenting," Why didn't the kids turn up yet?.With their starving stomach are they roaming around?.Some one else must go to take them back.They might have gone to (Mentioned a place where kids used to go to collect their twigs ) and on and on.When my niece's uncle was about to go to give a good search for the kids,we could here the sweet voices of the kids.We all assembled them.It was quite a lovely view of that small butterflies like kids with their variety of colors and pattern of dresses fluttering all around,having their small small bundles of twigs on their heads, kept moving on for their places.My sweet niece put down her sweet bundle of twigs on the floor.It was such an elegant bundle.She was so happy but was not proud.But her grand mother poked her nose up in the air and hugged her grand daughter to her heart.