Some stories convey a lot

Some stories convey a lot

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Possessive

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A mother and her daughter were walking by the sea on the verdant beach. The daughter was soon to be married. The mother was explaining the daughter about ups and downs of life, how she kept the family together by compromising and judiciously taking decisions. The daughter listened to her mother’s wise words.

The mother bent down and grabbed some sand. She said, “Look at my hand.” She held the sand in her open palm; the sand slowly blew away by the gust of wind. She said, “Relationship is like this sand, the moment it is taken for granted then like the sand it just flies off.”

Again she picked up some sand and tried holding the sand in a tight fist. All the sands started falling through the gap between the fingers. She said,” In a relationship more you try to possess more you lose like this sand slipping out of my fist as I make my fist tighter.”

The daughter said, “Yes mother I understand now. It has to balance between freedom and control, like this.” She bent down and picked up sand, she held the sand by making a loose fist to protect it from flying way and not too tight to force the sand slip out of hand.

Samaranandji was telling the story to his disciple as some of them told him how in the modern age relationships are falling apart. He is a modern Guru who conveys his sermons through parables like usually done by management gurus. He has stock of stories for all occasions.

Through the above story he explained how over possessiveness causes problem in work place too.

He said

In a work place you will come across people who don’t want to part with their knowledge which they acquired during their service period to new entrants. They seldom share but are quick to blame the subordinates and as a result of this the organization does not move further. The younger employees feel isolated and inadequate, they start looking for opportunity to get out of such suffocating work atmosphere.

The possessiveness of ideas is another big spoiler while trying to crack a problem as a team. There will be someone who would be fixed with his idea of solution and will keep on trying his possessed knowledge without heeding to the advice of others. If that individual happened to be a boss then you really had it. A transparent friendly colleague with a lesser knowledge gets a work executed smoothly without any hiccups.