The Club 99

 Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content.

One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked.  This fascinated the King; why was he, the Supreme Ruler of the Land, unhappy

and gloomy, while a lowly servant had so much joy.

The King asked the servant, 'Why are you so happy?'

The man replied, 'Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my family and I don't need too much - just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill

our  tummies.'

The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King's woes and the servant's

story, the advisor said, 'Your Majesty, I believe that the servant Has not been made part of The 99 Club.'

  

'The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?' the King inquired.

The advisor replied, 'Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is, place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant's doorstep.'

When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy... So many gold coins!

  

He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that there were 99 coins. He wondered, 'What could've happened to that last gold

coin?  Surely, no one would leave 99 coins!'

  

He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally, exhausted he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn

that gold coin and complete his collection.

  

From that day, the servant's life was changed. He was overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold coin.

He stopped singing while he worked.

  

Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled. When he sought his advisor's help, the advisor said, 'Your Majesty, the servant has now officially

joined The 99 Club.'

He continued, 'The 99 Club is a name given to those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented, because they're always yearning and Striving

for that extra 1, saying to themselves: 'Let me get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life.' We can be happy, even with very little in

our lives, but the minute we're given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our sleep, our happiness, we hurt the people around us; all

these as a price for our growing needs and desires.  

That's the "Club 99".

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The Chapati Story

A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever

would take it away. Every day, a hunchback

came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you:

The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words:

“The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday

this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she

said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him!

As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire,

prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains

with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”

The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window

sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his

safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His

garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile

away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was

kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater

than mine!”

” As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made

that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life!

It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t

ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.

My Concert links

Below are the links for my concert in R.T. Nagar Bangalore, on 19/8/2012, Sunday, in the Vivekananda Hall of Adarsh College, conducted by R.T. Nagar Cultural Sabha.




Sharanu hari priye:



http://youtu.be/A9SpN-yz1PI



Arumugane



http://youtu.be/zuZzq40AFBE



Bho Shambo

http://youtu.be/ynduvJZGzxk



Bramham okate



http://youtu.be/s9ekx8NoJi4

The Unfilled Bowl

An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he met a


beggar. He asked the beggar, "What do you want?"The beggar laughed and

said, "You are asking me as though you can fulfill my desire!"



The king was offended. He said, "Of course I can fulfill your desire. What

is it? Just tell me."

And the beggar said, "Think twice before you promise anything."



The beggar was no ordinary beggar, he was the emporers past life master. He

had promised in that life, "I will come and try to wake you in your next

life. This life you have missed but I will come again." But the king had

forgotten completely. Who remembers past lives after all? So he insisted, "I will

fulfill anything you ask. I am a very powerful emperor, what can you

possibly desire that I can not give to you?"

The beggar said, "It is a very simple desire. You see this begging bowl?

Can you fill it with something?"



The emperor said, "Of course!" He called one of his viziers and told him,

"Fill this mans begging bowl with money." The vizier went and got some

money and poured it into the bowl, and it disappeared. And he poured more

and more, and the moment he would pour it, it would disappear. And the

beggging bowl remained always empty.



The whole palace gathered. By and by the rumor went throughout the whole

capital, and a huge crowd gathered. The prestige of the emperor was at

stake.



He said to his viziers, "If the whole kingdom is lost, I am ready to lose

it, but I cannot be defeated by this beggar."



Diamonds and pearls and emeralds, his treasuries were becoming empty.The

begging bowl seemed to be bottomless. Everything that was put into it

--everything! --immediately disappeared, went out of existence. Finally it

was the evening, and the people were standing there in utter silence. The

king dropped at the feet of the beggar and admitted his defeat. he said,

"Just tell me one thing. You are victorious - but before you leave, just

fulfill my curiosity. What is the begging bowl made of?"



The beggar laughed and said, "It is made up of the human mind. There is no

secret. It is simply made up of human desires!!"



*Summary*



There is no end of fulfilling our material sense desire. Everyone has to

engage himself in service of others. Hence serving own sense desire keeps

him in engage in serving his own material senses. A person should find the

means to end this whirpool of desires caught in material sense

gratification. Soul suffers in repeated cycle of birth and death in Lord

material energy.



While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops,

attachment for them. From such attachment comes lust, then anger, illusion,

bewilderment of memory and loss of intelligence, and then one falls down

into the material cycle of birth and death. ---- Bhagavath Geetha.