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Ashok Banerji
Oct 24, 2009, 2:35:54 PM10/24/09
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I got the following by mail created by an unknown author. It is so
good an analogy and I am sure you will enjoy it too. Please read
on ...
Simple Analogy
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had
never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire
class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be
poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class
on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive
the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a
free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all
resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of
anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that
socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great,
the effort to succeed is great but when government takes the reward
away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.
What a profound short little paragraph that says it all
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy
out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to
anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody
else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when
the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because
somebody else is going to get what they work for,that my dear friend,
is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing
it."
~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
good an analogy and I am sure you will enjoy it too. Please read
on ...
Simple Analogy
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had
never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire
class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be
poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class
on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive
the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a
free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all
resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of
anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that
socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great,
the effort to succeed is great but when government takes the reward
away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.
What a profound short little paragraph that says it all
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy
out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to
anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody
else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when
the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because
somebody else is going to get what they work for,that my dear friend,
is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing
it."
~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
Ashok Banerji
Nov 21, 2009, 1:09:14 PM11/21/09
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Here is another Gem from an unknown author circulated through the
Internet.
Doors of Wisdom
A King had an only son, a young Prince, brave, skillful and
intelligent. To perfect his knowledge of Life, he sent him to an Old
Wise Man.
"Bring Light to my Path of Life", the Prince asked.
"My words will faint away like the prints of your steps in the sand,
the Wise Man answered. However, I want to give you some indications.
On your Path, you will find 3 doors. Read the rules written on each of
them.
An irresistible need will urge you to follow them.
Don't try and get away from them, because you would be condemned to
live again, ceaselessly, what you have avoided. I may tell you no
more.
You have to feel all this deep in your heart and in your flesh. Go,
now. Follow this path, right in front of you. "
The Old Wise Man disappeared and the Prince entered the Path of Life.
He was soon in front of a big door, on which one could read:"CHANGE
THE WORLD".
"It was my intention indeed the Prince thought, because if some things
please me in this world, others greatly displease me."
And he began his first fight. His ideal, his ardour and his power
urged him to confront himself to the world, to undertake, to conquer,
to model reality according to his desires.
He found there the pleasure and the dizziness of the conqueror, but no
peace in his heart. He managed to change some things but many others
resisted to him. Many years passed.
One day, he met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learn on your path?"
"I have learnt," the Prince answered, how to discern what is within
my power and what is without, what depends on me and what does not
depend on me".
"That's good! the Old Man said. Use your strength to act on what is
within your power. Forget what's beyond your power." And he
disappeared.
A bit later, the Prince was in front of a second door.
He could read on it : "CHANGE OTHERS".
"It was my intention indeed, he thought. The others are a source of
pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction, but also, of pain, bitterness
and frustration."
And he rebelled against everything that could disturb him or displease
him in his fellow men. He tried to bend their characters and to
extirpate their defects.
It was there his second fight.
Many years passed.
One day, as he was meditating on the utility of the attempts to change
the others, he met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learn on your path?"
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that the others are not the
cause or the source of my joys and my punishments, my satisfactions
and my setbacks. They are only opportunities for all of them to be
revealed.
It is in myself that all these things have their roots."
"You are right, the Wise Man said. According to what they wake up in
you, the others reveal you to yourself. Be grateful to those who make
your enjoyment and pleasure vibrate.
But be also grateful to those who create in you suffering or
frustration, because, through them, life teaches you what is left in
you to learn and the path that you still have to walk."
And the Old Man disappeared.
A bit further, the Prince arrived in front of a door, on which these
words were written: "CHANGE YOURSELF".
"If I am myself the cause of my problems, it is indeed what's left in
me to work on", he said to himself.
And he began his 3rd fight. He tried to bend his character, to fight
his imperfections, to abolish his defects, to change everything that
did not please him in himself, everything that did not correspond to
his ideal.
After many years of this fight, in which he met some success, but
also, some failures and some resistances, the Prince met the Wise Man
who asked him: "What have you learn on your path?"
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that there are things that we
can improve, others that resist us and that we can't manage to break."
"That's good!" the Wise Man said.
"Yes, the Prince went on, but I am beginning to be tired of fighting
against everything, against everybody, against myself. Won't there be
an end to it one day? When shall I find a rest? I want to stop
fighting, to give up, to abandon everything, I want to let go !"
"It is precisely your next lesson, the Old Wise Man said. But before
going any further, turn round and behold the path covered."
And he disappeared.
On looking back, the Prince saw in the distance the 3rd door, and
noticed that it was carrying a text on its back, saying : "ACCEPT
YOURSELF."
The Prince was surprised not to have seen this writing when he went
through the door, the other way.
"When one fights, one becomes blind, he said to himself. He also saw,
lying on the ground, scattered around him, everything he had thrown
away and fought against in him: his defects, his shadows, his fears,
his limits, all his old worries. He had learnt then how to recognize
them, to accept them, to love them. He had learnt how to love himself
without comparing himself to the others any more, without judging
himself, without reprimanding himself.
He met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learnt on your path?"
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that hating or refusing a part
of myself, it is to condemn myself never to be in agreement with
myself. I learnt how to accept myself, totally, unconditionally."
"That's good!", the Old Man said, "it is the first rule in Wisdom. Now
you can go back through the 3rd door."
He had no sooner reached the other side, that the Prince perceived far
away the back of the second door, on which he could read: "ACCEPT
OTHERS".
All around him, he could recognize the persons he had been with all
his life through; those he had loved as well as those he had hated.
Those he had supported and those he had fought.
But the biggest surprise of all for him was that now, he was
absolutely unable to see their imperfections, their defects, what
formerly had embarrassed him so much, and against which he had fought.
He met the Old Wise Man again.
"What have you learnt on your path?" he asked him.
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that by being in agreement with
myself, I had no more anything to blame in the others, no more
anything to be afraid of in them. I have learnt how to accept and to
love the others, totally, unconditionally."
"That's good!", the Old Wise Man said. "It is the second rule in
Wisdom. You can go back through the second door."
On reaching the other side of the second door, the Prince perceived in
the distance the back of the first door, on which he could read:
"ACCEPT THE WORLD".
Strangely enough, he said to himself, that I did not see these words
on the first time. He looked all around him and recognized this world
which he had tried to conquer, to transform, to change. He was struck
by the brightness and the beauty of every thing. By their perfection.
Nevertheless, it was the same world as before. Was it the world which
had changed ?
He met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learnt on your path?"
"I have learnt, the Prince said, that the world is a mirror for my
soul. That my soul can't see the world, it sees itself in the world.
When my soul is cheerful, the world seems cheerful to it.
When it is overcome, the world seems sad to it. The world itself is
neither sad nor cheerful. It IS there; it exists; it is everything. It
was Not the world that disturbed me, but the idea that I had of it. I
have learnt to accept it without judging it, to accept it totally,
unconditionally. "
It is 3rd rule of Wisdom, the Old Man said. You are here now in
agreement with yourself, with others and with the World.
A profound feeling of peace, serenity, plenitude, filled the Prince.
Silence was in him.
"Now, you are ready to go past the last Threshold" the Old Wise Man
said, "the one that goes from the silence of Plenitude to the
Plenitude of Silence ".
Internet.
Doors of Wisdom
A King had an only son, a young Prince, brave, skillful and
intelligent. To perfect his knowledge of Life, he sent him to an Old
Wise Man.
"Bring Light to my Path of Life", the Prince asked.
"My words will faint away like the prints of your steps in the sand,
the Wise Man answered. However, I want to give you some indications.
On your Path, you will find 3 doors. Read the rules written on each of
them.
An irresistible need will urge you to follow them.
Don't try and get away from them, because you would be condemned to
live again, ceaselessly, what you have avoided. I may tell you no
more.
You have to feel all this deep in your heart and in your flesh. Go,
now. Follow this path, right in front of you. "
The Old Wise Man disappeared and the Prince entered the Path of Life.
He was soon in front of a big door, on which one could read:"CHANGE
THE WORLD".
"It was my intention indeed the Prince thought, because if some things
please me in this world, others greatly displease me."
And he began his first fight. His ideal, his ardour and his power
urged him to confront himself to the world, to undertake, to conquer,
to model reality according to his desires.
He found there the pleasure and the dizziness of the conqueror, but no
peace in his heart. He managed to change some things but many others
resisted to him. Many years passed.
One day, he met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learn on your path?"
"I have learnt," the Prince answered, how to discern what is within
my power and what is without, what depends on me and what does not
depend on me".
"That's good! the Old Man said. Use your strength to act on what is
within your power. Forget what's beyond your power." And he
disappeared.
A bit later, the Prince was in front of a second door.
He could read on it : "CHANGE OTHERS".
"It was my intention indeed, he thought. The others are a source of
pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction, but also, of pain, bitterness
and frustration."
And he rebelled against everything that could disturb him or displease
him in his fellow men. He tried to bend their characters and to
extirpate their defects.
It was there his second fight.
Many years passed.
One day, as he was meditating on the utility of the attempts to change
the others, he met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learn on your path?"
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that the others are not the
cause or the source of my joys and my punishments, my satisfactions
and my setbacks. They are only opportunities for all of them to be
revealed.
It is in myself that all these things have their roots."
"You are right, the Wise Man said. According to what they wake up in
you, the others reveal you to yourself. Be grateful to those who make
your enjoyment and pleasure vibrate.
But be also grateful to those who create in you suffering or
frustration, because, through them, life teaches you what is left in
you to learn and the path that you still have to walk."
And the Old Man disappeared.
A bit further, the Prince arrived in front of a door, on which these
words were written: "CHANGE YOURSELF".
"If I am myself the cause of my problems, it is indeed what's left in
me to work on", he said to himself.
And he began his 3rd fight. He tried to bend his character, to fight
his imperfections, to abolish his defects, to change everything that
did not please him in himself, everything that did not correspond to
his ideal.
After many years of this fight, in which he met some success, but
also, some failures and some resistances, the Prince met the Wise Man
who asked him: "What have you learn on your path?"
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that there are things that we
can improve, others that resist us and that we can't manage to break."
"That's good!" the Wise Man said.
"Yes, the Prince went on, but I am beginning to be tired of fighting
against everything, against everybody, against myself. Won't there be
an end to it one day? When shall I find a rest? I want to stop
fighting, to give up, to abandon everything, I want to let go !"
"It is precisely your next lesson, the Old Wise Man said. But before
going any further, turn round and behold the path covered."
And he disappeared.
On looking back, the Prince saw in the distance the 3rd door, and
noticed that it was carrying a text on its back, saying : "ACCEPT
YOURSELF."
The Prince was surprised not to have seen this writing when he went
through the door, the other way.
"When one fights, one becomes blind, he said to himself. He also saw,
lying on the ground, scattered around him, everything he had thrown
away and fought against in him: his defects, his shadows, his fears,
his limits, all his old worries. He had learnt then how to recognize
them, to accept them, to love them. He had learnt how to love himself
without comparing himself to the others any more, without judging
himself, without reprimanding himself.
He met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learnt on your path?"
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that hating or refusing a part
of myself, it is to condemn myself never to be in agreement with
myself. I learnt how to accept myself, totally, unconditionally."
"That's good!", the Old Man said, "it is the first rule in Wisdom. Now
you can go back through the 3rd door."
He had no sooner reached the other side, that the Prince perceived far
away the back of the second door, on which he could read: "ACCEPT
OTHERS".
All around him, he could recognize the persons he had been with all
his life through; those he had loved as well as those he had hated.
Those he had supported and those he had fought.
But the biggest surprise of all for him was that now, he was
absolutely unable to see their imperfections, their defects, what
formerly had embarrassed him so much, and against which he had fought.
He met the Old Wise Man again.
"What have you learnt on your path?" he asked him.
"I have learnt", the Prince answered, "that by being in agreement with
myself, I had no more anything to blame in the others, no more
anything to be afraid of in them. I have learnt how to accept and to
love the others, totally, unconditionally."
"That's good!", the Old Wise Man said. "It is the second rule in
Wisdom. You can go back through the second door."
On reaching the other side of the second door, the Prince perceived in
the distance the back of the first door, on which he could read:
"ACCEPT THE WORLD".
Strangely enough, he said to himself, that I did not see these words
on the first time. He looked all around him and recognized this world
which he had tried to conquer, to transform, to change. He was struck
by the brightness and the beauty of every thing. By their perfection.
Nevertheless, it was the same world as before. Was it the world which
had changed ?
He met the Old Wise Man who asked him:
"What have you learnt on your path?"
"I have learnt, the Prince said, that the world is a mirror for my
soul. That my soul can't see the world, it sees itself in the world.
When my soul is cheerful, the world seems cheerful to it.
When it is overcome, the world seems sad to it. The world itself is
neither sad nor cheerful. It IS there; it exists; it is everything. It
was Not the world that disturbed me, but the idea that I had of it. I
have learnt to accept it without judging it, to accept it totally,
unconditionally. "
It is 3rd rule of Wisdom, the Old Man said. You are here now in
agreement with yourself, with others and with the World.
A profound feeling of peace, serenity, plenitude, filled the Prince.
Silence was in him.
"Now, you are ready to go past the last Threshold" the Old Wise Man
said, "the one that goes from the silence of Plenitude to the
Plenitude of Silence ".
Ashok Banerji
Nov 26, 2009, 12:07:24 PM11/26/09
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Today is 26/11
the day Mumbai was under siege a year ago (in 2008).
Senseless terrorists took about 174 innocent lives
and seriously injuring 5 time more people.
Today is 26/11
in many parts of the world
you might be celebrating
celebrating the Thanksgiving day or other
but remember the human pain and anguish
caused by sinister minds.
LET US STAND AGAINST THE EVIL DESIGN.
Let there be peace on earth
let there be peace in every human mind.
Let us cry with resolute determination
as it came from a Poet spontaneously
"iss baar nahin" – 'not this time'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QszK7W0E54
the day Mumbai was under siege a year ago (in 2008).
Senseless terrorists took about 174 innocent lives
and seriously injuring 5 time more people.
Today is 26/11
in many parts of the world
you might be celebrating
celebrating the Thanksgiving day or other
but remember the human pain and anguish
caused by sinister minds.
LET US STAND AGAINST THE EVIL DESIGN.
Let there be peace on earth
let there be peace in every human mind.
Let us cry with resolute determination
as it came from a Poet spontaneously
"iss baar nahin" – 'not this time'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QszK7W0E54
Ashok Banerji
Dec 10, 2009, 8:35:57 AM12/10/09
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Remembering Bhopal
In the middle of the night of December 2-3, 1984, residents living
near the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India awoke
coughing, choking, gasping, and in the case of thousands, slowly
dying. Half a day later, half a world away, company executives
sleeping soundly near the Danbury, CT headquarters of Union Carbide
Corporation awoke in the middle of the night yawning and grumbling at
the sound of telephones ringing… shortcuts taken in the name of profit
— authorized by the highest executives within the company — had just
killed thousands of innocent citizens. It was the worst industrial
disaster of the 20th century, forever changing the public’s trust of
the chemical industry. Union Carbide claimed it was sabotage by a
disgruntled employee that led to the disaster, but how much did the
company already know about the dangerous conditions its shortcuts and
bottom-line focus had created?
Read: http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/bhopal/index.asp
Bhopal disaster lingers, 25 years later
Activists and residents protested Thursday to mark the 1984 Bhopal
disaster in which a gas leak killed 4,000 Indians in one day. New
Delhi researchers say water in the area is still contaminated, though
the state government says it is safe.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1203/p06s04-wosc.html
In the middle of the night of December 2-3, 1984, residents living
near the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India awoke
coughing, choking, gasping, and in the case of thousands, slowly
dying. Half a day later, half a world away, company executives
sleeping soundly near the Danbury, CT headquarters of Union Carbide
Corporation awoke in the middle of the night yawning and grumbling at
the sound of telephones ringing… shortcuts taken in the name of profit
— authorized by the highest executives within the company — had just
killed thousands of innocent citizens. It was the worst industrial
disaster of the 20th century, forever changing the public’s trust of
the chemical industry. Union Carbide claimed it was sabotage by a
disgruntled employee that led to the disaster, but how much did the
company already know about the dangerous conditions its shortcuts and
bottom-line focus had created?
Read: http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/bhopal/index.asp
Bhopal disaster lingers, 25 years later
Activists and residents protested Thursday to mark the 1984 Bhopal
disaster in which a gas leak killed 4,000 Indians in one day. New
Delhi researchers say water in the area is still contaminated, though
the state government says it is safe.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1203/p06s04-wosc.html
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