Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Positive Vision

One teacher had two disciples. One of them had an auspicious positive vision and he always foun
out good points from anything he observed while the other one had an inauspicious vision and always found out some faults and negative from his observations.

One day teacher went out to a Park with both the disciples and while wandering in the garden they came across a mango tree from which ripe and juicy mangoes were seen hanging. On seeing this, teacher thought of testing both of his students so he called them besides and asked them to observe the tree with mangoes very carefully. Then he asked the first one, “My dear child, what do you think of this mango tree?”

The disciple answered instantly “Teacher, in spite of people hitting this tree with stones, it gives us sweet and juicy mangoes, it feels hurt but still it gives us fruits. I wish if all human beings learn this from mango tree and share their belongings even if they have to suffer for this.”

After that, the teacher asked the same question to the other disciple, “My dear child what do you think of this mango tree?” The student aggressively answered “teacher, this mango tree is no good and will not give mangoes by itself but we will get only when we hit it with stones and sticks so we should hit it hard to get sweet mangoes from it and that is the only way to get this mangoes. It is also clear from this tree that to get good fruits from others we need to be violent and also one needs to be violent then and then will get happiness.”

Teacher was delighted with the answer given by the first student because he had an admirable vision and  appreciated the tree with positive vision while on the other hand the second student’s answer dissatisfied him because he saw the tree with negative vision and insisted on learning wrong way of getting fruits in life. It showered its blessings on the first disciple whole-heartedly.

So friends, even though the situation is same it still depends on how we interpret it, which show our mental status and the way we think of others. Let’s take an example of lovely roses that have thrones around them. A person with inauspicious vision will say, “Oh God! Even these beautiful roses have thrones around them”, while a person with auspicious vision will say, “Wow! What a wonderful creation of nature – a beautiful rose amongst thrones.”
Always develop a vision that can find out something good even from a bad thing or person. And by doing so, slowly your mind & intellect will become pure day by day.

DEVELOP A POSITIVE VISION AND ALWAYS FIND OUT SOMETHING GOOD FROM EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE.

Positivity is biggest strength in life. Success follows who are positive in all situations. Many great celebrities had one or the other weakness, but they were always positive for self, others & situations and hence became successful by overcoming all sorts of obstacles. As rightly said, ‘Failure is the stepping stone to Success’ but do not get used to it, but learn from it and keep improving from past experiences.

Being positive about others is equally important. A little poison of negativity about others in our mind will destroy our relationships with them. Everybody has something or the other to appreciate for, only we need to do is applying positive vision and appreciating others.

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