Panchatantra Punches Part 5

Animation films like Ice Age series and Ratatouille are under my favorite animation movie list. I would wonder what clicks those movies to be a tremendous reach to the entire audience of the world. It is like every main character from the movie delivers a message to our minds or brains. For example, message from Ratatouille would be that sentence "Any body can cook". 

It keeps us thinking,keeps us busy, keeps us entertaining,keeps us laughing, keeps us sit and watch them till the movie ends and keeps us to watch them over and over again at any time.So the fundamental aspects from the movie are sense of humor and thoughts. It is the same feeling I had while reading Panchatantra or some children fairy tales. Though some may tease like still you are reading kid's stories or watching kid's movies, for them I would say enjoy the humor and thought process from anybody - no matter it comes from a 3 year old kid or 80 year old grandpa.

So today's panchatantra punches continues as below:

21. The good servant at his lord's command fears nothing on hand.He crosses uncharted seas and gladly steps into a fire, if his master wishes so.

22. A servant who has been spurned by a king, though born and brought up by him, will still be eager to destroy him.

23.The trustful strong men are caught easily by their weaker enemies, while the careful strong men stays safe even from their deadliest enemies.

24. Just as the healthy man has no use for medicines to restore him to good health. so also does a king, free from troubles, no use for advisers.

25.Whoever speaks even small untruths to a king, invites certain ruin on his gods and on his teacher too. So always speak the truth to the loyal who in turn expects loyalty from you.

Panchatantra Punches Part 4

Let us sharpen our skills smart as sharp as an eagle's eye.
If you just start reading thought provoking stories try to learn the positive message it delivers to your real life. No matter whether it is from a school kid's English text book or from a science fiction fantasy novel or historical fiction article or spy thriller blogs. 

Now let us roll our sleeves and get back to Punches Part 4:

16. You find relief amidst great disaster in telling things to a powerful master, honest servant, a faithful friend or a wife who loves you till the end.

17. Water breaks the dams, love disappears when bad feelings enter, secrets vanish when people start babbling and simple words melt even cruel hearts.

18. Wisely move one foot, while the other holds firmly, for until assured of some new home, do not desert the old.

19. If you are brave and bold, no matter how fierce the enemy, no defeat or sorrow would touch you. Brave hearts do not fear even threats from heavens.

Let me make the next point as a puzzle from the same panchatantra story book. Let me see how many sharp eagles can give an answer to it.

20. "I thought at first it was full of fat,
        I crept within,
        There I did not find a thing,
        Except some wood and skin". What is it?

Answers are expected within 1 week from today. If not , It will be added as comment by myself.

Panchatantra Punches Part 3

Most of the stories from panchatantra will have some specific characters like Jackals, wolves and foxes coming under the category of cunning and trickier beings, camels, bulls, oxen, cows, donkeys under the honest , dumb or ignorant category and the lions, tigers, leopards or elephants playing the brave, majestic and commanding roles. We can compare those behavioral pattern mapping of these characters in real life too.Let us continue on to Part 3 of the punches:

11. A good servant will give master good or bad news and then help him in the decision making process with a touch of humor. The man who does not want his master's fall will advise him, though uninvited.

12. To clean a tooth or scratch an ear, a straw may serve a king, but a man of speech & action is a higher kind of thing.

13. The usefulness of a horse,book,sword,woman, flute or word depends entirely on the quality of the user.

14. Does not gold come from a stone?
      Does not water lily spring from mud?
      Does not lotus bud sprout from cow dung?
      So men of distinction become so by their attainments, not by birth.

15. The wise who have mastered the universal law, do not care either for money or position. They are like the bull which cannot be restrained by an chain when it is in rage.

Panchatantra Punches Part 2

Whenever we read some stories,novels or articles especially like Panchatantra or Five Principles - it draws our attention to think in the character's pursuit and it gets so interesting to read till the end. Also the moral of the story triggers the awareness and common sense to the readers. So lets move on to the part 2 of the punches from panchatantra tales.

6. From a mere gesture, walk, twitch or word, from the eye and look,
   the wise can read one's thoughts.

7. No burden weakens the strong,
   To the enterprising no road is long,
   To the well informed, nothing is strange,
  To the flatterer, no man is a stranger.

8. A gentleman will never interrupt during a conversation,
    a fight or when the monarch is consulting a psychic,
   is with his barber, flirting with a woman or when he is devouring his favorite food.

9. Students should not meddle with their teachers things. 
    Destruction - fast & sure waits on such meddlers.

10. A loved & beloved one is who never gives a painful reply or laughs loudly teasing others, who pretends not to hear the goings on in the king's household & keeps his mouth shut in women's quarters, who hates gambling, avoids liquor and treats other's wives as if they were statues.

Panchatantra Punches Part 1

During my childhood days, I used to read a lot of Panchatantra stories, Jataka tales, Akbar Birbal tales, Aesop fables etc. Most of them I used to read from my school library itself. While reading those stories, I would quote down the catchy quotes or rather I feel them as punch dialogues or punches in short. Thought of moving those scribbled notes into my blog as many parts. The best part of these punches is it makes you keep thinking and it would imply the actions, happenings and messages to your various stages of life. Though most of them may be contradictory or for and against the normal human thoughts, we always have the right to debate on such topics. So here it goes:

1.Unborn or dead sons will cause a little grief for sometime, no doubt, but foolish sons will cause one much sadness throughout.

2.Of what use is a cow, which neither gives a calf nor yields milk. Similarly why beget a son who is an idiot and disobedient.

3.Re-employ the money you have earned like releasing the surplus water from a reservoir.

4.Wise serve the kings by hurting his foes and helping his friends. Life is indeed life when many lives depend on it.

5. Vice and Virtue are like an effort to carry stones uphill, but they are tumbling down in a jiffy.Honor or disgrace of a man  will decide his inner worth.