The story of Ganesh and the cat

Ganesh is the son of the Mother Goddess, Parvati. Like all children, he was sent to school to become clever.

On the first day, he learnt the first three letters of the alphabet: A, B, C. He was very excited when he came home. He ran to his mother saying, ‘Mum, mum, play with me.’ But mum was busy. She asked him to play by himself in the garden. Ganesh went into the garden, and there he saw the neighbour’s cat. Ganesh said, ‘Cat, play with me. We are going to play the game of School. I am going to be the teacher, and you will be my student. I will teach you the alphabet.’


In wobbly writing he wrote on the board ‘A B C’. Then he pointed at ‘A’ and said to the cat, ‘Repeat after me, A…’ The cat just went ‘Meow’. Ganesh said, ‘Cat, that is not very clever. Repeat after me, ‘A, B...’. The cat went ‘Meow, meow….’ Ganesh was getting annoyed with the cat. He said, ‘Cat! You must learn the alphabet properly, otherwise I will be angry with you!’ He then pointed at the letters on the board and said, ‘Repeat after me, A B C…’. The cat went ‘Meow, meow, meow.’ Ganesh felt very annoyed and told the cat off, waving his finger at it. The cat did not like being told off, and ran away feeling sad. Ganesh decided to go back into his house. When he returned, he was surprised to see mum looking very sad. Ganesh asked, ‘Mum, why do you look so sad?’ Parvati said, ‘Come here my boy, and tell me, what were you doing just now?’ Ganesh said, ‘I was just playing in the garden with the cat.’ Mum asked, ‘Were you angry with the cat?’ Ganesh thought oh oh! He replied, ‘Just a little.’

The Mother Goddess said, ‘Listen to me my boy, and listen carefully. This is the most important lesson you will learn in your life. I, the Mother Goddess, am the mother of the whole universe, and live in everything. It is me who lives in the cat, so when you are angry with anyone, you are angry with me my boy. Do you now understand why I feel sad?’ Ganesh now understood. It is God alone who lives in all living things, so if we hurt or harm anything, we hurt God. From that day on, Ganesh would never hurt any living thing.

Just like Ganesh, Hindus must not hurt or harm anyone or anything. God lives in everything and in everyone. That is why Hindus greet each other by putting their hands together, giving a gentle bow and saying, ‘Namaste,’ which means ‘There is God in you’.

Believe It Or Not!

Believe It Or Not!

• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All Polar bears are left-handed.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
• If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
• If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
• Starfish haven't got brains.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
• The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

8 Harsh Truths that Will Improve Your Life

1. Friends Come and Go
Friends will always come and go in your life; It can be a hard thing to accept, but many of the friends you spend time with now, might not be around in the next few years.

2. You Won't Always Get What You Want
You won't always get what you want in life: people are going to be late, people will let you down, items you want won't always be available.

Important Lesson: Don't look for happiness in material possessions and if things don't go your way, learn to accept them. Life's too short to stay miserable.

3. Many People Will Love You, but Many Will Not
Whether you are a celebrity, a charity worker or just a normal guy, there are going to be people that love you and what you do, but there's also going to be plenty people that don't like you. There are many possible reasons such as jealousy, similarities to them, or just not being someone's 'type'.

Important Lesson: Not everyone is always going to like you, and that's fine. If people want to spend time talking about you then that is their problem. You are perfect as you are. You shouldn't need everyone to like you to have some form of self-esteem.

4. Nobody Can Transform Your Life Like You Can
The support and help of others can only take you so far, you're going to have to do your own thing to make big changes in your life situation.

Important Lesson: Do things for yourself and learn to stand on your own two feet. People you rely on won't be around forever, and you don't want to have to use others as a crutch to get anywhere in life.

5. Mistakes are part of Life
As the saying goes - "Only those who are asleep make no mistakes". or "Those who don't make mistakes, usually don't do anything!"

Important Lesson: You can learn a lot from others, but it is your own failures that are going to teach you the most valuable lessons in life. Learn from your failures, embrace them, and use them to drive you on to success.

6. Not everyday is Perfect
Don't stress about the things that you can't control. Learn to live with things that happen. You can't change the past, but you can change how you react to things.

7. There May Be No Tomorrow
At least, not for you anyway. We never know what is around the corner, a car crash, a heart attack; heck...even the end of the world is possible. Let's face it, although we would all like to live till we are 70 years old, that's certainly not always the case. There will be one day that is our last.

Important Lesson: Make the most of each day. Make sure the people you care about actually know it, don't worry about little matters, just make sure you spend time doing the things you love.

8. Someone Else Will Always Have More
Whether it is money, partners, friends or even blog subscribers, there will always be areas where other people have more than you. That isn't to say you can't become abundant in whatever you want..

Important Lesson: Just because someone has 'more', that doesn't mean they are happy.

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