This story
happened in a recent period, on a day I still remember. This is not a messy story
of heroes and villains; not a fanciful description of fairies and magic world.
This is real, a flesh and blood happening; a conversation between a grandpa and
his grandchild. As we all aware, Grandpas are full of wisdom. They have their
own way to impart it into their descendents. Children should grow learning from
Grandparents otherwise they will miss the wisdom to live.
The Child
in our story, like all other children around the world had many doubts about
life and its needs. He had only doubts that were never answered. One of the
irritating things about this life was hunger. He felt hungry often. He felt
hungry when he woke up from sleep; he felt hungry after playing with his
friends; and he felt hungry and hungry so that he could not continue with any
work from morn till the end of the day without a break for a snack. He dreamed
of a life without hunger.
Like a
great philosopher unwinding the mysterious knots of life, he meditated on
hunger and its causes. He was sure that a cause preceded an effect. Hunger was
an effect; the cause was a mystery for him. Though he spent many days
meditating on the subject, he was not enlightened about the cause. So he deiced
to approach his grandpa with the question.
His
grandpa was his father’s father, a man with white beard, bald head, shining
eyes and wrinkled skin. He knew many things, many mysteries and knew how to
convey them in simple manner to his grandchildren. Children felt often that
there is nothing hidden from him. But they had heard their father speaking
different at many times. Grandpa was not worried about it. He seemed to be sure
of the truth he spoke.
The boy
approached the Grandpa with his big question on life: “What is the cause of
hunger?”
The
grandpa smiled at him and his question. Then he assumed a serious appearance.
He thought for a while before he started to speak.
“There are
two bears in your stomach. They constantly fight with each other. Their fight
causes hunger” said the Grandpa to his Grandchild. “The first bear”, he
continued, “is covetousness, treachery, falsehood, cruelty, murder, jealousy,
despair, frustration, intolerance and other characteristics that can be grouped
together. The second bear is kindness, generosity, truthfulness, happiness,
hope, lovingness, sympathy, tolerance and other characteristics that can be
grouped together.”
The
Grandpa attributed evil to the first bear and good to the second bear. He
shortened his list of evil for the sake of the boy. They boy may not be
familiar with names of other evils that man practice.
The boy
had one more doubt. The Grandpa was ready to answer more questions.
“Who is
the victor?”
“The one
you feed”, answered the Grandpa.
Professor
Jacob Abraham
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