055 - How poor are they that have not patience

After many years of inception of Ekalavya School, the mango grove on its campus started bearing fruit. This attracted monkeys and they came in huge numbers everyday to enjoy the mangoes. It created a lot of disturbance for the school. Sudhir ( the admin head) and his team were given instructions by the management to drive these monkeys away. Sudhir and Dwanik and Jaideep would run behind these monkeys with lathis whenever they saw them. they also scared them with the help of gun shots (Diwali wali gun). Many a times Jaideep would fire gun shots just so that the monkeys get scared and do not come to the campus.

Harassed by all this, the monkeys went and complained to their King. After a lot of thought on how to solve the problem, the King came up with a brilliant idea. He decided to but the adjoining land and plant mango trees for his monkeys. Since its the adjoining plot, mangoes were likely to grow as well as on the Ekalavya campus, and since it'll be their own land, they could eat all the mangoes they wanted to and not feel scared. Within the next few days all the formalities were completed and the land was bought. Now, all the monkeys dug up the land and planted gutlis (the seed) of the mangoes.

They were curiously waiting for the trees to come up but nothing seemed to be happening ! Restless and impatient, that monkeys are, they waited for two days and then dug up the ground to see if the mango trees were growing !

For whatever you want to achieve - time will have to be given.

source: Stories from Here and There, Ekalavya Education Foundation - By: Sunil Handa - http://www.eklavya.org/storyhere.html