Saturday, August 14, 2010

Leaking pot

Ones upon a time, an Indian man lives on the hill.He brings water from a stream at the bottom of the hill for use at home. He fetch the water regularly-so used to it that he doesn't feel the weight of it. Indian people use a pair of pot to fetch water.When he purchased the pair of  pot, one has a crack and the other one is in perfect condition. The perfect pot always brings a full water to the family, but the pot with the crack has only half of the water when getting to home, because the other half has leaked on way.Therefore he managed to fill only half water. In this way two years have passed. The perfect pot is not only proud of its achievement, but has complete sense of pride.But the other pot with a crack was very embarrassed of its inborn blemish, and a sense of sadness descended on it.  One day , the leaking pot said to the Indian man when he is  at a river bank. " I feel very embarrassed and I would like to apologize'.


The water-man asked " Why are you so embarrassed. ?"

The pot replied " During the past two year, I managed to bring only half full water pot. On the way to your home, water escaped from the  crack on my belly and by the time reaching home only half of water is left. You have used energy to carry two pots of water, but ended up with gaining only one pot of water. "
Having heard what the pot said, the water man felt touched and sad. He said to the pot in a sense of pity
"I want you to pay close attention along the path. Look at those beautiful flowers along side the road".
As they walked down the path, just then the pot saw the golden light of the sun brighly shone on those fabalous flowers along side the road.
This beautiful sight scene make the pot feel comfortable and relaxed. But when they reached the end of the road, the pot again felt unhappy, as then only half of the water from the leaking pot escaped along path.
As when the pot  wants to again apologize for this inconvenience, to the waterman. But waterman sensed it and responded:

"Have you not noticed those beautiful flowers on the road, those grow on your side but have not grown on the other side of the path. I already knew that you have a crack on the other side, and I have properly used that to its best. I have sow seeds along the side you face toward, and then each time when I fetch water from the stream, the flower bed had its share of water and properly watered.
There are many paths on the hill, yet only along your side grows flowers and nowhere else. Isnt that so"?

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