Greetings to you this Monday Morning!!
Last week a college student was referred to me by one of the line manager, with a request to assess her spoken English skills. To do this, it was essential to have her speak in English and I simply asked her to narrate a story. I did observe her English language skills as she told me the story but more importantly I though that I should share her story with you.
The young lady told me a story that she had read in the Sanskrit language as a school student, about a bird that had two faces but one body. I must admit that I cannot recollect the name of this bird. The story goes that the 2 faced bird once came across some tempting food grains lying on the ground near a hut. As soon as the bird saw it, one of face said "Wow. These grains look tempting. Let me go ahead and eat them". However the other face said "Don't eat it.it is very likely to be laced with poison by the humans staying in the hut. It may be a trap."The first face did not take any heed of the other, went ahead and ate the grains.
To its horror the grains were indeed poisoned. The bird died and along with it, both the faces died too.
The moral of the story, the young lady said, is that we all are like the bird. We all have two faces. One of them does things that are in our interest, while the other may not. However we need to understand that at a deeper level both of them are connected. They both enjoy the good fruits of positive actions and they both suffer the ill effects of negative ones.
What is important is - which face do we listen to?
Have a great week!!
Monday, August 29, 2005
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