Two Moral Stories

Stories are liked by every one of all ages. Some stories have good ending while others are tragic. Most stories has so much to tell us. Most of them have a message that make us think and act accordingly.

Two stories that  interested me and inspired me a lot is narrated below.

Story1:

Once a eagle was hungry and was flying searching for food. While flying high in the sky and searching the ground for food, he spotted a fox keeping some fleshy worms in custody. He was quite hungry and decided to stop at fox. Eagle pleaded for few worms to feed on. Fox then said, your feathers are very beautiful, give me ten them in exchange. Eagle agreed for the trade. When the eagle ate one worm, he wanted more and more. The trade thus continued between eagle and fox. 

After some time, eagle lost most of his feathers, thus making him almost impossible to fly. Suddenly fox jumped over the poor eagle and killed the eagle to fill his belly.

Moral of this story is that, we should not trade precious gifts given by GOD for momentarily pleasures in the world.

Story 2:

There was a King who ruled a mighty country. He was extremely rich, always happy and spent lot for enjoyment and fun. One day a Sanyasi(guru) visited his palace. Seeing the attitude and life style of the king he decided to warn him not to be irresponsible in duty. Instead directly delivering the message, the Sanyasi presented the King a ring. He informed the King that there is a message inscribed inside the ring, and in difficult times in life he may read the hidden message.

After some years there was an unexpected war with a neighboring enemy country. King was poorly prepared for the war, but took all his army to the battle field to defend his country. However, his army was ill prepared and was getting defeated in the war. Highly disappointed, the King sat down on his chariot for a moment. That time, he remembered about the old Gurus gift. That moment he decided to explore what is there inside that gift. He removed the ring from his fingers and read what was written. It said " this moment shall also pass".

Suddenly he realized the present moment of sadness will also pass-by naturally, just like the earlier happy and joyful moments. This thought rejuvenated him. Once again he gathered his spirits, and fought bravely leaving behind all discouraging thoughts. His warriors also got inspired seeing their King fighting strongly and charging ahead. Finally, their efforts emerged as a team and eventually managed to defeat the opponents.

Moral of this story is that we should not be tied to the fun filled (short) present, but must be prepared and looking forward.