🧵 The Mango Tree That Wouldn’t Bloom — A Story of Kartikeya’s Patience 1/ In a quiet forest, Kartikeya once planted a mango seed. 🥭
He whispered to it:
The seed listened. And slept.
2/ Days passed. Then weeks. Then years.
The tree grew tall—but never bloomed.
No flowers. No fruit. Just leaves and silence. 🌳
The forest teased:
3/ Kartikeya didn’t get angry.
He sat beneath the tree every morning.
He sang to it. Told it stories.
He even shared his victories with it.
4/ One day, a little bird asked:
“Why do you wait for a tree that gives you nothing?”
Kartikeya smiled:
“It gives me patience. That’s more than fruit.”
The tree shivered. A single flower appeared. 🌸
5/ Soon, the tree bloomed.
Not because of power.
But because of love, stories, and time.
The first mango was golden.
Inside it was a seed shaped like a Vel.
6/ 💡 What we Can Learn:
Not everything blooms quickly.
Patience is a superpower.
Even gods wait. Even trees listen.
7/7 Kartikeya didn’t just grow a tree.
He grew a lesson.
That sometimes, the sweetest fruit…
takes the longest time. 🍃
#Kartikeya #KidsStory
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🥥 What’s Happening with Coconut Prices in Kerala?
📈 Current Prices
Coconut oil: Prices have surged from ₹160/litre last year to ₹500–₹770/litre..
Raw coconuts: individual coconuts costing ₹70–₹77 each😳😱
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For a middle class this is nothing less than a calamity. but even hard times become easy to bear if we give it a touch of humor☺️, isn't it?
Here's a story of a Malayali🌴family...
Characters:
Raghavan – Retired schoolteacher, proud Malayali, coconut oil purist.
Leela – His sharp-witted wife, master of improvisation.
Appu – Their son, software engineer, home for Onam.
2.
🌴 Scene: A modest kitchen in Kochi, 7:00 AM
Raghavan (sniffing the air suspiciously):
“Leela… this sambar smells like betrayal. Did you use sunflower oil?”
Leela (without turning):
“Not betrayal, Raghava. It’s called survival. ₹700 for coconut oil? I’d rather fry my morals.”
Raghavan (dramatically clutching his chest):
“Sunflower oil in sambar is like wearing sneakers to a temple. Functional, but disrespectful!”
Appu (scrolling his phone):
“Amma’s right. Even Flipkart has EMI options for coconut oil now.”
Raghavan:
“Next they’ll offer cashback for buying coconuts. What’s the world coming to?”
3.
In India there is a tradition that when the time to die comes, you should not be among your family, you must always move away. This may sound strange.
In Western cultures, you want the entire family to be there But, in India when the time to die comes, you must move away from your family, because if you are with your family, you will continue your psychological drama, thinking that is the ultimate drama in your life.
1/5
When people realized they are past a certain age and within the next year or two they may pass, they would walk all the way to a sacred space by themselves to die. They did not want their relatives, children, or spouse around them, because they wanted to realize that all these things are just arrangements that you make for your comfort and convenience here; this is not ultimate nature of life.
2/5
The ultimate nature of life is that you are born alone and you will die alone. Even if all of us crash in airplane and die together, we are not dying together. We are dying alone. Individual life needs to deal with itself the way it is. You cannot deal with it in groups. 3/5
Yesterday, my son came running from the school, absolutely bursting with excitement.
“We have holiday tomorrow,” he said.
“One more holiday? But why?” I asked, somewhat irritated.
“It’s Karkidaka Vavu tomorrow,” he replied.
“What? Say again?” I blinked.
“Karkidaka Vavu…” he shouted, then grinned, “Google it!”
🧵1.
🌘It is a significant day observed in Kerala, to honor departed ancestors. It falls on the Amavasya (new moon) day in the Malayalam month of Karkidakam.
🌘It’s comparable to Pitru Paksha observed in other parts of India, where families pay homage to their forefathers.
🌘Devotees gather at riverbanks, beaches, and temple ghats—to perform Bali Tharpanam, a ritual involving offerings of rice balls (pindam), sesame seeds, tulsi leaves, and water.
🌘Participants often fast or eat only simple vegetarian meals, and the rituals are conducted barefoot, emphasizing humility and purity.
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Many say, “ what's the point of making offerings n doing elaborate rituals for the dead. Just treat them well while they are alive. Why do something mainly out of fear once they are gone?” while I agree that we have to treat the older generations well while they are alive, do these rituals-deep rooted in our culture are of no significance?
3.
The Mahabharat war was not about justice or social reform. It was a cosmic self-destruct mechanism—nature’s way of restoring balance when one group grows too powerful.
These two minutes 🧵 will change the way you perceived the outcome of Mahabharata war.
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Take a step back from moral lensing and observe how nature functions:
🌿 Nature isn’t fair. It’s biased towards balance, not equality.
We see this in ecosystems, where predator and prey exist in tension. If either side grows too extreme, collapse is inevitable. 2/
Humans mirror this pattern. No two people are alike—physically, emotionally, or intellectually. The idea of a perfectly equal society is poetic, but unrealistic. As long as change exists, so will inequality. 3/
👵🏽 Mother-in-law: The traditional way is the right way — duty, discipline, and devotion!
👰🏽♀️ Daughter-in-law: Modern efficiency is the real progress — autonomy, balance, and success!
If you get into the trap of who’s right n wrong, trust me you are screwed up for life...🥴
🧵😅1.
📜 Anekāntavāda enters the picture here, sipping chai thoughtfully...
"Technically, you’re both right — just from different viewpoints. One’s seeing the teacup, the other’s the saucer — but the chai’s hot either way!" ☕
Wondering what is this Anekāntavāda.🤔
This famous elephant story describes it like no other.
2.
A group of blind men encountered an elephant for the first time. Each touched a different part and described it based on their limited experience:
Side? "It’s like a wall!"
Tusk? "No, it’s like a spear!"
Trunk? "It’s a snake!"
Leg? "Obviously a tree!"
Ear? "It’s a fan!"
Tail? "Clearly a rope!"
3.
I was against “Murtipooja” or “Idol worship”.
Why do people go to a famous temple, stand in que for day n night just to get a glimpse of a particular stone? What is the difference between that stone and any other ordinary stone?
I grew up with such questions in my mind and no one could offer me an answer that made sense to my logical mind. Then I came to know that...
🧵1.
there is something known as ‘consecration’. Now what’s that? It is like this, if you transform mud into food, we call this agriculture. If you make food into flesh and bone, we call this digestion, integration. If you make flesh into mud, we call this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or an empty space into a divine possibility, that is called consecration.
2.
Today, modern science is telling us that everything is the same energy manifesting itself in a million different ways. If that is so, what we call as divine, what we call a stone, what we call a man or a woman, what we call a demon, are all the same energy functioning in different ways.
For example, the same electricity becomes light, sound and so many other things, depending upon the technology. So, it is just a question of technology. If you have the necessary technology, you can make the simple space around you into a divine exuberance, you can just take a piece of rock and make it into a god or a goddess -this is the phenomenon of consecration.
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