There was a man with four wives. 

He loved his 4th wife the most and took a great care of her and gave her the best. He also loved his 3rd wife and always wanted to show her off to his friends. However, he always had a fear that she might run away with someone.

He loved his 2nd wife too. Whenever he faced some problems, he always turned to his 2nd wife & she would always help him out.  He did not love his 1st wife though she loved him deeply, was very loyal to him and took great care of him.

One day the man fell very ill and knew that he is going to die soon.

He told himself, "I have four wives with me. I will take one of them along
with me when I die to keep company in my death." Thus, he asked the 4th wife to die along with him and keep company. "No way!" she replied and walked away without another word.

He asked his 3rd wife. She said "Life is so good over here. I'm going to
remarry when you die".  He then asked his 2nd wife. She said "I'm Sorry. I can't help you this time. At the most I can only accompany you till your grave."  By now his heart sank and turned cold.

Then a voice called out: "I will leave with you. I will follow you no matter
where you go." the man looked up and there was his 1st wife. She was so
skinny, almost like she suffered from malnutrition. Greatly grieved, the
man said, "I should have taken much better care of you while I could have!"

Actually, we all have four wives in our lives.

1. The 4th wife is our body. No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it will leave us when we die.

2. The 3rd wife is our possessions, status and wealth. When we die, they go to others.

3. The 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how close they
had been there for us when we're alive, the furthest they can stay by us is
up to the grave.

4. The 1st wife is our GOOD DEEDS, neglected in our pursuit of material
wealth and pleasure. It is actually the only thing that follows us wherever we go.....

People say that there is no Difference between

COMPLETE & FINISHED.

But there is a difference.

When you marry the Right One you are COMPLETE

And

When you marry the Wrong One you are FINISHED

And

When the Right One catches you with the Wrong One 

you are COMPLETELY FINISHED.....

Nice Story…...

A keen immigrant Indian lad applied for a salesman's job at London 's premier downtown department store. In fact, it was the biggest store in the world - you could get anything there.

The boss asked him, "Have you ever been a salesman before?" 

"Yes sir, I was a salesman in India", replied the lad. The boss liked the guts of him and said, "You can start tomorrow and I'll come and see you."

The day was long and arduous for the young man, but he got through it.
And finally 6:00 PM came around.
The boss duly fronted up and asked, "How many sales did you make today?"

"Sir, Just ONE sale." said the young salesman.

"Only one sale?" blurted the boss.

"No! No! You see here, most of my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day.
"If you want to keep this job, you'd better be doing better than just one sale.

By the way "How much was the sale worth?"

"3,37,000 pounds" said the young man.

"What"," How did you manage that?" asked the flabbergasted boss. 

"Well", said the salesman,

"This man came in and I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium hook and finally a really large hook.

Then I sell him new fishing rod and some fishing gear.
Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast.

So I told him he'd need a boat, so I took him down to the boat department and sold him that twenty-foot schooner with the twin engines.

Then he said his Volkswagen probably wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to our automotive department and sold him that new Deluxe 4X4 Blazer.

I then asked him where he'll be staying, and since he had no accommodation, I took him to camping department and sold him one of those new igloo 6-sleeper camper tents.

Then the guy said, while we're at it, I should throw in about $100 worth of groceries and two cases of beer.

The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment, "You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook!!"

"No" answered the salesman, "he came in to buy a headache relief tablet and I said to him, "Sir, fishing is best remedy for headache”.

Boss - "You sit in my chair......."

Why Go To Temple…..

A 'devotee' goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to Temple. 

I have gone for 30 years now, he wrote and in that time I have heard
something like 3000 mantras.

But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I am wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving services at all.

This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to Editor' column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: 

I have been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.

Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today! 

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the
invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!  Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment.

The High Price of Silence.....

A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work, not aware that her 9 year old son was hiding in the closet.

Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.

Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes it is."

Boy: "I have a baseball."
Man: "That's nice."

Boy: "Want to buy it?"
Man: "No, thanks."

Boy: "My dad's right outside."
Man: "OK, how much?"

Boy: "250 dollars."

After a few weeks, it happens again - the boy's father comes home early and the boy and the mom's lover are in the closet together.

Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes, it is."

Boy: "I have a baseball glove."
Man: "That's nice."

Boy: "Want to buy it?"
Man: "I really don't."

Boy: "I'll tell."
Man: "How much?"

Boy: "750 dollars."
Man: "Fine."

A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove. Let's go outside and toss the baseball!" The boy says, "I can't. I sold them." 

The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?"

The son says, "1,000 dollars." 
The father says, "That's terrible to over-charge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."

They go to church and the father alerts the priest and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.

The boy says, "Dark in here."

The priest says, "Oh, don't start that again!"

One truck driver was doing his usual load delivery at a mental hospital, by parking his vehicle beside an open drain. He discovered a flat Tyre when he was about to return from the mental hospital.

He jacked up the truck and removed the flat Tyre to fix the spare Tyre.

When he was about to fix the spare Tyre, he accidentally dropped all the 4 bolts in the open drain.

As he cannot fish the bolts in the open drain, he started to panic as to what should be done?

Just then, one patient happened to walk past him and asked the driver as to why he was looking troubled.

The driver thought to himself, since there is nothing much he can do or this mental joker can. Just to keep the bugging away, the truck driver informed the whole episode to the mental patient and gave a helpless look.

The patient just laughed at the truck driver and said you just cannot even fix such a simple problem? "No wonder you are destined to remain a truck driver for life".

The truck driver was astonished to hear such a compliment from a mental guy. "Here is what you can do" said the mental guy...

"Take one bolt from each of the remaining 3 Tyre / wheels and fix it on to this Tyre. Then drive down to the nearest workshop and replace the missing ones. Isn't it simple my friend"?

The truck driver was so impressed with this quick fix answer and asked the patient "How come you are so smart and intelligent and you are here at the mental hospital?"

The patient replied "Hello friend! I stay here because I am crazy but not stupid".

No wonder, there are some people, who behave like the Truck Driver, thinking that others are just stupid.

So, guys, though you all are learned and wise, but, just watch out, there could be some guys in our professional / personal lives, who could give us lot of quick fixes and brush our wisdom.

Attitude Matters...

A person once went for an interview in a very reputed company. While entering the room, he slipped and fell on the ground. Documents scattered all over the place. One might think of being humiliated at that moment.

The man picked himself up.
And with a smile on his face he spoke out loudly "Finally, I have fallen into right place!".

He was hired the very next moment.

A negative happening also can be converted into positive if we develop right attitude.

Journey of life starts with 

a full bag of luck 

and 

an empty bag of experience..

The goal is to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck gets empty.