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Expert tips: How you process yourself now, changes your future prospects.
A mother took her son to a saint. “Swami…! My son is studying intermediate. He is intelligent but the problem with him is that he is interested in everything except studies. Please tell him something.” Swami asked the boy, “About what should I tell you?” The naughty boy showed the newly carpeted road and playfully smiled, “Tell me about that”.
The Swami was well educated and knowledgeable. He asked him to bring the round shaped tar-ball lying by the side. “Can you tell me what would be cost of the tar in this ball?” he enquired. The boy replied, “May be five to ten rupees.”
“But if the petroleum is processed in a different form, the same tar would become a synthetic product from which small threads can be manufactured. These threads are thinner than human hair, and are used in our heart operation for stitching. This small quantity of tar can yield around thousand such threads, each costing around ten thousand rupees. In another sense, the value of this ten-rupee worth tar-ball would have increased to 10,000,000 rupees if properly processed.”
Sensing the enthusiasm in the boy’s eyes, the swami continued. “How you process yourself now, changes your future prospects. You are in the intermediate stage of life.
“Intermedius” in Latin means “In the middle”. It’s like a railway junction. A train takes you to Kashmir and another to Jaisalmer. Whether you want to spend the rest of your life in a flowery garden or desert sand is decided at this stage. Think.” Realising the morale, the boy bowed his head before Swami in reverence.
Riddle
Due to continuous war there was a decline of male population. To equate the ratio, the king set down a law that required every couple to continue giving birth to children until they had their first female child. In another words, if the first baby is female, they cannot opt for second one, as there is a possibility of that child also being a female.
The idea of the king appears to be logical. After two generations how much would have been the growth of males compared to females? Double? Triple?
Write your answers within three days to the mail address below. Ten winning student’s names would be published in the English version of my recently released Telugu puzzles book. Winners are selected on the basis of brevity, logic and expression.
YANDAMOORI VEERENDRANATH
yveerendranath@gmail.com
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