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4 wives

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Lalit

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[h=2]4 Wives[/h]
Once upon a time...



There was a rich King who had 4 wives.






He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her nothing but the best.


He also loved the 3rd wife very much and was always showing her off to neighboring kingdoms. However, he feared that one day

she would leave him for another.

He also loved his 2nd wife. She was his confidante and was always kind, considerate and patient with him. Whenever the King faced a problem, he could confide in her to help him get through the difficult times.


The King's 1st wife was a very loyal partner and had made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and kingdom. However, he did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.


One day, the King fell ill and he knew his time was short.

He thought of his luxurious life and pondered, "I now have 4 wives with me, but when I die, I'll be all alone.


Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I have loved you the most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?"

"No way!" replied the 4th wife and she walked away without another word.
Her answer cut like a sharp knife right into his heart.

The sad King then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?"

"No!" replied the 3rd wife. "Life is too good!

When you die, I'm going to remarry!"

His heart sank and turned cold.

He then asked the 2nd wife, "I have always turned to you for help and you've always been there for me. When I die, will you follow me
and keep me company?"

"I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!" replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most, I can only send you to your grave."

Her answer came like a bolt of thunder and the King was devastated.
Then a voice called out:


"I'll leave with you and follow you no matter where you go." The King looked up and there was his first wife. She was so skinny,

she suffered from malnutrition.

Greatly grieved, the King said, "I should have taken much better care of you when I had the chance!"


In Truth, we all have 4 wives in our lives ...


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


Our 3rd wife is our possessions, status and wealth.
When we die, it will all go to others.


Our 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how much they have been there for us, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave.


And our 1st wife is our Soul, often neglected in pursuit of wealth, power and pleasures of the ego.

However, our Soul is the only thing that will follow us wherever we go.
So cultivate, strengthen and cherish it now!


It is your greatest gift to offer the world.



Let it Shine!
 
Good story which was in circulation long long back!

But thinking aloud:

1. We have to take care of our body - 'suvarillAmal chiththiram varaiya mudiyAdhu!.

Also, unless we present ourselves well, the society will not respect us - 'AL pAdhi; Adai pAdhi'! :drama:

2.Without wealth and status no one will bother about us! :sad:

3. Be good and helpful to family and friends; they will at least arrange for a decent funeral! :rip:

4. Oh, yeah! Our soul is supposed to travel but not with us because the body will become either ashes / be burried!

BTW, I read recently that Hinduism favors cremation because if the body if buried, it will still 'claim' about 6 feet of earth! :)
 
when a person 's heart stops beating, he dies. when he is cremated, it turns into ashes and bone pieces.

every thing else is only imagination and faith.
 


4. Oh, yeah! Our soul is supposed to travel but not with us because the body will become either ashes / be burried!


I am reminded of this article:

From Ashes To Ashes To Diamonds: A Way To Treasure The Dead




Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend. Now, they might also be her mother, father or grandmother.
Swiss company Algordanza takes cremated human remains and — under high heat and pressure that mimic conditions deep within the Earth — compresses them into diamonds.
Rinaldo Willy, the company's founder and CEO, says he came up with the idea a decade ago. Since then, his customer base has expanded to 24 countries.
Each year, the remains of between 800 and 900 people enter the facility. About three months later, they exit as diamonds, to be kept in a box or turned into jewelry.
Most of the stones come out blue, Willy says, because the human body contains trace amounts of boron, an element that may be involved in bone formation. Occasionally, though, a diamond pops out white, yellow or close to black – Willy's not sure why. Regardless, he says, "every diamond from each person is slightly different. It's always a unique diamond."
Most of the orders Algordanza receives come from relatives of the recently deceased, though some people make arrangements for themselves to become diamonds once they've died. Willy says about 25 percent of his customers are from Japan.
At between $5,000 and $22,000, the process costs as much as some funerals. The process and machinery involved are about the same as in a lab that makes synthetic diamonds from other carbon materials.
The basic process reduces the ash to carbon, then slides it into a machine that applies intense heat and pressure — for weeks. That's at least several hundred million years faster than diamonds are made in nature.
"The more time you give this process, the bigger the rough diamond starts to grow," Willy says. After the new diamond cools off, the crystal isground and cut to shape, and sometimes engraved with a laser.
It only takes about a pound of ashes to make a single diamond, Willy says. His company has created up to nine diamonds from one individual's ashes.
Algordanza isn't the only company blinging out the afterlife, either. An American company called LifeGem offers the same services, and there are a number of U.S. patents for similar procedures.
Most of the time, Willy says, people take the diamonds to a jeweler to be made into rings or pendants.
"I don't know why, but if the diamond is blue, and the deceased also had blue eyes, I hear almost every time that the diamond had the same color as the eyes of the deceased," says Willy, who personally delivers the diamonds to his Swiss customers.
Each time, he says, the family is happy that their loved one has, in a sense, returned home. And in sparkling form to boot.


 
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