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THE PRODIGY
Tenali Raman was a great devotee of goddess Kalika, bestowed with immense wit and intelligence. When he was a boy and lived in Tumuluru near Tenali, his neighbor Rajmouli once took him to the house of a well-off landlord named Nagendra Rao.
"This boy is Tenali Raman. He is genius," Rajmouli told Nagendra, "I've never seen a brighter boy then Raman. He has an answer for everything!" Rajmouli continues to tell Nagendra.
Nagendra was an arrogant and snobbish man full of pride who thought himself to be the only intelligent person in the whole empire. He was not at all pleased to hear Raman's praise from Rajmouli.
"He doesn't look very intelligent," Nagendra said glancing at Raman. "In any case the more clever the boy is, the more duller is becomes as a man!"
"Is that true?" asked Raman, with an air of innocence. "Then, sir, as a boy you must have been even more intelligent than I am!"
Nagendra stood awestruck and defeated at Raman's quick and witty reply.
MORAL - NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A CHILD'S ABILITY TO GET INTO MORE TROUBLE.
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LIFE'S LESSON
"The truly great are generally humble. They know how little they know. However as Josh Billings says, 'Most men are like eggs, too full of themselves to hold anything else.' Pride goes before downfall."
WISE CRACKS
- Pride is the general root of all harm.
- All the passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its work, everything goes wrong.
- Man can get better only if he guards himself against pride, otherwise he has to face ridicule and insult.
QUOTABLE NUGGETS
"Pride, like the magnet constantly points to one object, SELF, but unlike the magnet it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels." ~ C. Colton
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