ON AGE AND SIZE

Be ashamed of your self for all these. So I warn you hereby, Take care! Do not meddle with others, or interfere with their affairs. You deserve mending ..........." Obviously the listening mountain stood gagged, confused and confounded. As the mountain stood stupefied and petrified at the torrential out flow of such thunderous declamatory counter charges, the lively, yet mighty little squirrel wended its way towards its bough with a majestic gait befitting the occasion.

What an interesting quarrel! How fine is the charge? Finer still is the countercharge! And the finest is the composition. A grand legend! Nay, a marvel, lesson indeed!

If we dig deep into this episode, we are sure to get an invaluable gem of a truth. Whoever erred, or whatever might be the outcome of such error, one thing is certain. The world is composed of all kinds of things-small and big, good and bad, useful and useless, visible and invisible, living and non- living, and lastly movable and immovable. But each has its place and each of them has a distinct quality and hence a utility of its own.

In the general scheme of creation, nothing is useless. Littleness need not be despised, nor the hugeness be unnecessarily adored.

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