Desire and anger

Thatha was very tired that day but his little darlings never left him at peace. They went near him and shouted , “Story, story” Thatha started, “There is a place called Koramangala in Bangalore. Lot of rich people live there. All the children in Koramangala went to very good schools. The teachers in those schools taught them everything .Vikram and Arjun were two intelligent boys living in nearby houses. Both of them were studying in 5th standard of a very famous school. Both of them normally scored good marks. Always Vikram scored slightly less than Arjun, Vikram’s mother got very angry with him and always shouted at him. “You do not have desire to come first and that is why Arjun is always coming first.” Vikram felt that his mother was right. He developed lot of desire to come first. He was always jealous of Arjun. He always asked Arjun what he was studying, after that he would study the same subjects. When he does not understand he will get angry. When he became angry he became confused. Since he was confused he got still lower marks. “

Vikram’s teacher told him, “How come Vikram, you are scoring less marks?” This made Vikram angrier and slowly the intelligent Vikram became a very poor student.”

Thatha then asked “Maithree what is the moral of the story. Maithree replied “Thatha it is very clear. You should not have too much desire”