1 line humor no fun, its serious

[1] Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.

[2] Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

[3] Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!

[4] I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.

[5] A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.

[6] Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.

[7] Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without, but whatever you do, you'll regret it later.

[8] You can't buy love, but you pay heavily for it.

[9] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

[10] Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

[11] Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

[12] My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.

[13] Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

[14] Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.

[15] A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

[16] You're getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.

[17] It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

[18] Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books.

[19] Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

[20] Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something

[21] They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak!

[22] Man: Is there any way for long life?

Dr: Get married.

Man: Will it help?

Dr: No, but then the thought of long life will never come.

[23]Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before the fight begins!

[24]Wife: Darling today is our anniversary, what should we do?

Husband: Let us stand in silence for 2 minutes.

[25]It's funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.

[26]There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.

[27]There is only one perfect wife in the world and every neighbor has it!

Why do we light a lamp?

In almost every Indian home a lamp is lit daily before the altar of the Lord. Insome houses it is lit at dawn, in some, twice a day – at dawn and dusk – and in a few it ismaintained continuously (Akhanda Deepa).

All auspicious functions commence with thelighting of the lamp, which is often maintained right through the occasion.Light symbolizes knowledge, and darkness, ignorance.

The Lord is the"Knowledge Principle" (Chaitanya) who is the source, the enlivener and the illuminatorof all knowledge. Hence light is worshiped as the Lord himself.

Knowledge removes ignorance just as light removes darkness. Also knowledge isa lasting inner wealth by which all outer achievement can be accomplished. Hence welight the lamp to bow down to knowledge as the greatest of all forms of wealth.

Why not light a bulb or tube light? That too would remove darkness. But thetraditional oil lamp has a further spiritual significance. The oil or ghee in the lampsymbolizes our vaasanas or negative tendencies and the wick, the ego. When lit by spiritual knowledge, the vaasanas get slowly exhausted and the ego too finally perishes.

The flame of a lamp always burns upwards. Similarly we should acquire such knowledgeas to take us towards higher ideals.

Whilst lighting the lamp we thus pray:
Deepajyothi parabrahma
Deepa sarva tamopahaha
Deepena saadhyate saram
Sandhyaa deepo namostute

I prostrate to the dawn/dusk lamp;
whose light is the Knowledge Principle (theSupreme Lord), which removes the darkness of ignorance and by which all can beachieved in life

HAPPY DISSATISFACTIONS

How have such ordinary and basic qualities become qualities that are looked up to? I have heard about the disciple who asked the master, “How come everything that is precious in the world is so rare? To his query, the Master replied, “It is actually the other way round. Because they are rare, they are considered precious”.

In the process of human evolution, unable to handle his materialistic burdens, man has lost most of his natural human tendencies, including those as simple as laughter, sleep, kindness, joy etc. they have become rare and hence, precious. So, people with these qualities are considered precious and are looked up to as rare people.

Let us be aware. Let us be happy that we are amongst the rarest of rare, for we have held on to our inherent human abilities and basic character traits, but all the same, let us not get too satisfied with them. Else, we shall become blind to higher possibilities. When we are dissatisfied with the small, we achieve the big. When we are dissatisfied with the big, we strive to achieve the bigger. When we are dissatisfied with the bigger, we work harder for the biggest.

Ordinary satisfaction cannot create extraordinary success. Let us be happily dissatisfied for that is the way to the top.

That’s Wisdom

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job with a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work.

To first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees. Congratulations, the boss said. “Go on that way”.

Very motivated by those words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day but he could only bring down 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder but he could only bring down 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing lesser and lesser number of trees.

I must be losing my strength, the woodcutter thought, he went to his boss and apologized saying that he could not understand what was going on.

When was the last time you sharpened your axe? The boss asked.

Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe? I have been very busy trying to cut trees.

Have you sharpened your axes or still working busy with your Broken Edges?