There are thousand of stories which our parents and grand parents always used to tell me , during our childhood to motivate and inculcate good habits in our personality .one such story my grandpa told very often when I was in the habit of quarreling with my sister for petty small things like exchanging our dresses or any thing of common interest to both of us , Moral of the story which taught me a lesson of my life is very close to my heart , I am repeating it here .
There was a farmer living in a village who had five sons , all grown up and married but always had differences amongst them selves .and always kept on fighting on trivial things . Despite their father always preaching them not to fight unnecessarily and waste their strength , But the sons were a kind of stubborn and determined not to hear and advice from their father , that made farmer father very upset seeing bleak future of his family and farmlands , All of a sudden He fell seriously sick and Doctors advised him complete rest else he may die any time soon because of worries and heart problems. Sons were equally concerned and came to attend their father to enquire if They could do any thing for him to save him ?
Farmer stared at their faces to be assured if they meant what they were saying . Then he asked his elder son to take out a bundle of sticks which he had kept underneath his bed , bundle had five sticks tied to each other tightly with a rope . Son surprisingly asked what we have to do with this bundle of sticks and what does it mean to us ?
Farmer then asked his elder son to break this bundle of sticks without untying it . Every one tried turn wise to break the bundle of five sticks with full force but did not succeed in breaking it . Farmer noticed his sons getting frustrated on their unsuccessful attempts in breaking the wooden stick bundle . Then he asked his youngest son to open the rope and untie the bundle and asked him to give one stick each to his other four sons as well . Now break it , every one broke the stick very easily and smiled for their strength .
Farmer then started telling them this is not a feat or achievement , each stick individually is not that strong so it broke , Now you take your own case you are five brothers , if I die how will you survive the cruel world around you ? If you remain united like that bundle of sticks ,and stop fighting and cursing each other no one ever will dare to touch you or break you or harm you , but the moment you are severed and become one individual , every body will take for granted that you are weak and very easy to be defeated and harmed .
All the five brothers fell on their father’s feat started crying ,and realized their follies for not listening to their father before .Farmer asked his sons what moral you got from the story as you are crying now ?
Our dear dad we all have got the message in your story that
“ united we stand and divided we fall “
In future we promise we will never fight and will always remain united as no body will be able to succeed in harming us . Hearing this heartfelt statement from his sons , Farmer was very happy and took his last breath leaving his sons crying with tears in their eyes ,
Moral and Lesson in the story is “ always remain united if you want to tide over dangers to your existence
