To Pakistan with Love

Here is a tale which I would like to most lovingly relate to Pakistan....

once upon a time in a village a satsang was organised. Aman took the responsibility of serving the Sanits & the seers. He performed his duties most enthusiastically..He also attended satsang daily.But even after listening to the preachings of saints he could not free himself of the vices of ego, envy and greed and it was not hidden from the eyes of seers.

Satsang over, the saints and the seers decided to depart. Now was the time for seeing off the saints and also to seek their 'blessings'....so the man went to them touched their feet ...the pleased saints told him to ask for anything he desired... The man at once asked them to give him a mantra which would give him anything he wanted. The saints were wise people .They gave him the mantra but at the same time told him that this mantra will give him anything but the condition is that whatever he gets his neighbours would also get double that....and he must not do anything with envy and with grudge against others.

Now the man reached home and chanting the mantra, asked for nice food, clothes ,jewellery and a palatial house for his family...He got all but just then he heard a noise... He rushed out only to see his neighbours dancing and shouting with joy ....afterall they had got nice food ,clothes ,jewellery (double) and two palatial houses each.....This filled the man with envy, He thought It was I who served those saints to get the boon but my neighbours are getting its fruit for free...He stopped using the mantra .after some days he met his friend who told him how to use his mantra so as to bring satisfaction to him by harming his neighbours.......He went back home and chanting the mantra, demanded that there be a well just in front of his house gate...and there were two in front of all neighbours' houses....Happy...he asked for another wish forgetting all about the warning of the saints that he shouldnt use it with illwill against others. he demanded that he should become blind of an eye...but the neighbours would become totally blind....and then they will fall in any of so many wells and die...and then he would enjoy his boon alone....But lo! what happened॥He became blind of an eye alright.....but all the boons given to  him by the mantra were withdrawn.....To crown the things his neighbours were still hail and healthy still enjoying the boons they had got earlier....The man was left repenting in vain....

Now what is the connection between this tale and Pakistan? Only this that it is something Pakistan can draw a lesson from....

Pakistan got help from India at the time of partition...but that was used to support insugency in India....It has been getting help from US also but instead of focussing on development issues it continued to focus on Kashmir and giving strategic and monetary support to terrorist outfits(just like the man in the present story)...

so much so that Pakistan harboured them in PoK and other parts of Pakistan(demanding that it should become blind of an eye so that the neighbour becomes totally blind)......India is a powerful nation its people have made up their mind to fight terrorism and not to Kneel down before the terrorists ...and it has been braving all the small and big attacks of these terrorists(HATS OFF TO SECURITY FORCES)...but its situation is still firm and stable......People stand united in condemning terrorism sponsored by Pakistan.

Now turn your eyes towards the pathetic condition of Pakistan....So helpless that it cannot guarantee the SriLankan cricket team(which agreed to visit Pak even after India's refusal to do so) ....has to take fresh instructins and warnings from US...is facing Talibani threats in various regions and its government far from stable(caught between Obama & Osama)....with fresh rumours of power change and millitary rule arising daily.....

The moral to be learnt thus is that one should not envy one's neighbours for their prosperity and happiness but instead enjoy the little he gets or possesses...this contentment (which always remains absent in Pakistan's dealings with India) could have won true friends for Pakistan .....if only it had not chosen to nestling and nurturing foes inside its territory.........

But we still hope that we will rise above our diffrences ....as we know if true happiness is to be won it is to be won for one and all......