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lost, then these illustrations help us retain our mental balance and peace of mind.
Our mind does not have the capacity to bear even a small loss caused by disfigurement of a beautiful rangoli or a painting created with a lot of efforts or a painting just completed or a piece of cloth which is being embroidered. We are owners of such a petty mind, that we rebuke and shame a person, when an insignificant handicraft done merely on thermocol is damaged accidentally by him. To strengthen our tolerance levels we need to continuously think about the above incidents, where those great men have so easily forgiven the persons who caused them such colossal damage. Both, buildings which crash and those that remain stable during an earthquake, look alike from outside. The difference lies in their foundation only!
Gowardhanram Tripathi, the author of the legendary novel "Saraswatichandra" was a lawyer by profession. Once, in his absence, his little daughter went into his room. She took some important papers, cut them and made a beautiful kite with those pages. She showed the kite with great enthusiasm to her father, when he returned home in the evening. "Look father ! I have made such a beautiful kite from these useless pages. I have made it myself !". Tripathi was absolutely dumb struck. But now that the damage was already done, he had no choice but to accept his misfortune. Lovingly caressing his daughter's head with oceanful of love, he exclaimed : "Wow ! Excellent! But dear, henceforth do not take any papers without asking me, ok !"
While flying the kite in the evening, the little daughter again asked her father : "this kite is flying so beautifully, isn't it?" With a smile on his face, he had affirmed: "Wow ! My dear daughter ! You have made my play reach the skies !".
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