The power of a good company - a story

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Sai Ram to all

I would like to share a little story with you all. I got it from

someone else in Telugu in a poetic style and now i am trying to

translate it.

Once upon a time there was a little Ant. One early morning she wished

to have a dip in Ganga waters (River Ganges ) caught -up in the dense

curls of Lord Shiva's head. But she did not know how to get fulfilled

that desire. She thought for a good time in her mind to find a

solution for it. After some time she got a good idea and decided to

execute her idea using her intelligence and fulfill her desire.

And went to a nice flower garden with beautiful flowers on the branches

of the plants and creeped along one of the branches till it reached to

a very beautiful flower and entered in between the petals of the flower

and kept hide herself.

Who could guess what was the plan of the little ant is!?

On that early morning Lord Shiva's wife came to the garden to collect

beautiful flowers to adore Her Lord and filled Her flower basket with

many many beautiful flowers and at last plucked too the flower where

the little ant kept hide herself.

And the Goddess took all the flowers and adored Shiva, Her Lord keeping

the flowers She collected on His head. There was the flower in which

our little ant was hide, She put on Her Lord's head. The little ant,

then used her best chance of being there on the head of Lord Shiva had

her so much desired dip in the waters of River Ganga, on the head of

The Lord of Universe.

In this way such a little being like an Ant could fulfill her desire

using her intelligence and aquiring a good compnay to realize it.

Good company always leads to good results.

The poetic story in Telugu goes more or less like this :

Aashraya Mahima :

Cheema yokati Shivuni Siramu pai nalararu

Ganga loona munu-ganga dalache;

Tanadu koorke etlu Konasaaguna yani

Chitta-mandu chaala chinta cheese;

Chivari-koka yukthi che tana koorke

Teerchu konaga nenche telivitooda;

Tvara tvara ga cheeri Puula toota yandu

Churukuga prakenu chakkani puulu gala kommapai;

Cheeri-nantane sundara kusumaala kadaku

Nakki kuurchunde-nokka kusumambu nandu,

Cheema yukthi yeemo cheppalemu!

Shivuni puja koraku Shiva Patni aa proddu

Butta ninda meeli puulu nimpi,

Kosaku Cheema yunna kusumambu koosi;

Shivuni Puja chese aa puula tooda;

Ivvidhambuga okka nalusanta aa Cheema

Buddhi balamu tooda koorke teerchukona-galige!

Puula too kuudi Bhuteshu Siramu cheri,

Ganga neeti lona koori munige!

Manaku aashrayambu manchidai-nappudu,

Cheppanela kaarya siddhi kalugu!!

Author unknown

Hope all enjoyed

Sai Ram.

sesha maheswari