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AUM SHANTHI
Second shortcut to Sivaloga
Points
to Ponder - 002
In a village called Mathagal, Jaffna, Sri
Lanka. There lived a miser called
Eachchappi. He hoarded lot of money. Because of his intense greed for accumulating
wealth, he could not trust anyone on Earth, not even his wife or children. As
the saying goes, every law has its own exception; this miser also had one
reliable friend named Sivapalan. Because of the fear of Government
Investigation, he buried a box of gold jewellery, in Sivapalan's backyard under
the cattle shed.
So lived the man, until his age of 77. One day he got an attack of pneumonia, he
could hardly breathe. He realized he is going to die soon. At that moment also,
this avaricious person's mind was indulged in money and worried about the
buried box of jewels. So he called his son to explain this secret that he had
hidden a treasure in Sivapalan's cattle shed. The son was standing by his bed
side, the old man started saying, "Listen carefully son, .....
I....have.....Siva...." He could not complete the sentence but succumbed
to the disease and croaked.
On the same day, his neigbour named
Punnyiamoorthy also died. This gentleman was an Ayurvedic physician. All his
adult life, he served his community by treating all patients, free of charge.
He was taken aback to see the miser, Eachchappi coming to heaven. So he asked
Sithraputhar - the deity in charge of admission to heaven, "This guy is
the worst miser in the history of our village Mathagal. Nobody likes him at
all. How is it possible for him to have earned, enough virtue, to be admitted here?"
The deity
replied, "I know Mr. Punnya, every thing about the miser is in my
computer. I can't help it, I have to play by the rules. There is a small loop
hole in the constitution of heaven. The clause number 4 section 7 states that
anyone saying the Lord's name in his last breath is automatically eligible for
heavenly life. Eachchappi's last words were Siva. Although he was not praying
but was trying to say that Sivapalan's backyard is where the treasure is
buried."
Point to
Ponder:
Every law has
its own exception, is also a law;
So what is
the exception for that law? again another exception? and again?..........
AUM SHANTHI
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