Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Advice from a thief !

                                         Advice from a thief !
Long ago, in a village there lived a man called Ramanna. He is rich. But on the same time, he is miser. Though he is having everything, he leads a life of a poor. He kept all his valuables in a secret place that even his wife don't know.
His wife has to live like a poor woman. She had tried several times saying to her husband about living comfortably not luxuriously. But  Ramanna didn't listen. Then she stopped saying to her husband about what is right and what is not.
Ramanna though he had several acres of land, he didnt't use it because of laziness. If someone comes saying that they will plough the land for free, then he will gladly give the work. But the yield must be given to him since it is his land.
Ramanna didn't plough his land. All of it turned to barren land. But Ramanna didnt changed his mind. One day at night , a thief broke into his house. He had hoped that he will find some property to steal. But to his dismay, he didn't find anything. Instead Ramanna woke up and saw a thief who was searching for property. Soon, he started to shout "thief , thief".
Hearing this, thief came near Ramanna and said "I came to steal your house . But I could not find anything. Still you are shouting in order to wake others. I think you are a lazy person who didn't work so that I can steal something. Nothing comes if you sit not doing anything. Atleast earn something so that you can live ". After saying this, thief left the place.
Ramanna prepared to go to police station with a complaint. Then his wife stopped him and said "Thief said true thing. Today itself we will go to our land and grow something useful. Then no one can point to us. Thief has given a good advice".
Hearing this, Ramanna realised it is true. He was ashamed that from a thief he had to get an advice. That moment itself, he vowed that he will change himself.

1 comment:

  1. excellent advice, every one who got free land from govt's rule "tiller gets the land" in the 60s and 70s, now either left the land barren, or sold it for 50 times higher prices ! shortly in 10 to 20 years we in India will be net importers of food, even more than fuel

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