Re: [nukkad] Two Men

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>   Forgive your enemies, it drives them really nuts.

Excellent.
Very right and very effective. I have seen it happening.
Who said it?


zaverirm wrote:
> >2) Sheikh Challi

Deepak Amin wrote:
> Sheikhchilli is a stupid character I read about in a Hindi text-book in my school days. 

So it is Sheikh Chilli. How much difference an a or i can make.

He was not exactly stupid, but very very imaginative. Thus, on
the slightest pretext, he went on daydreaming while his
imaginations had a field day. In the process, he used to forget
his surroundings and reality, and did something that the basis,
on which he was building his dream, was distroyed, and he
sufferred punishment.

I partially recall some anecdots about him, but someone better
versed, please tell them.

His mother gives him an earthenpot full of milk to sell in the
market. As soon as he puts it on his head, his imagination is
stirred and he started visualising that he will sell all the milk
at very high price, then he will become rich, then he will make a
big palace to live in, he will marry a beautiful girl and have
children. Some day his children will commit some mistake and he
will get angry with them, then he will stop eating, then the
children will come and apologise to him, but he will hear none of
it. They will keep on urging him to take food, but he will
refuse. He will say "no, no" and will shake his head that way.

As soon as he shakes his head in "no, no", the earthenpot having
milk falls down and gets broken. And his mother beats him
heavily.

His name has acquired an idiomatic value to indicate a person who
keeps on planning and does not even start to implement it.

There are several like that in this list.

> This is the person who was cutting the same branch of a tree on which he was sitting. Someone saw this & advised him not to do so but still he persisted & fell down. I dont recall what happened next.

No Deepak ji,

That was Kalidas.

He was indeed stupid, at least to begin with.

There was a princess in a country called vidyottama who was very
learned and very proudy, in the negative sense, about her
knowledge. She used to indulge in shashtrartha (interpretation of
scriptures) with learned people and she invariably won. Then she
used to mock and humiliate them. She had declared that she will
marry the one who defeats him in shashtrartha.

A few such humiliated learned meant decided to teach her a
lesson. They set out to find the right person.

They passed by a village and saw a person sitting on a tree was
cutting the same branch on which he was sitting. They understood
that he is absolutely stupid, without common sense, and they
asked him to accompany them promising him that they will arrange
his marriage with the princess. But he has to keep his mouth
shut.

The shashtrartha started. Because the princess was told that the
stupid man was mute, can't talk, it was decided that they will
discuss in indications with body and a panel was formed to
interpret the meaning of the indications given by the stupid.

Vidyottama shows one finger indicating "God is one".

The stupid person thought that she is saying "I will remove your
one eye" and he shown two fingers indicating "then I will remove
both your eyes".

The panel interpreted that the stupid is indicating that though
god is one there are two aspects of him, Aatma and permaatma.

Everybody, including the princess, agreed to this better logic.

Then the princess shown five fingers indicating that there are
five fundamental elements in the universe.

The stupid person thought that she is saying that I will slap
you, so he shown her a fist saying that I will beat you even
more.

The panel interpreted that the stupid was indicating that though
there are five elements but when all these merge in a single
inseparable entity to give human body and living beings, only
then the universe gets formed.

Everybody, including the princess, agreed to this better logic.

(there might be different interpretations. Anybody?)

So it went on. And finally the princess conceded her defeat. 
She got married to Kalidas, who continued acting as mute.

One day the couple was sitting in a garden and a camel happen to
pass by. The stupid had heard about camel but was seeing it for
the first time, so he got excited and spoke "utra, utra".

The princess, wise she was, understood that he was not mute, and
also understood that he was stupid because the correct sanskrit
word for camel is "ushtra". (corrections?)

So she denounced and exiled him. He felt very heart, goes to
jungle, studied thoroughly and became a very wise men.

He wrote several sanskrit books. (Meghdoot?....?)

-Rawat


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