Panini and the Well

              Panini was a great scholar of ancient India. He lived in Punjab. But as a boy he was very dull. He could not understand anything. He had read in primary schools but was driven out from all of them because of his dullness. He was sixteen years old yet he learnt nothing. His father grew angry and drove him. Panini became sad and roamed about. One day he came near a well. Village women had come there for water. Their pitchers had made deep hollows on the hard stones around. Being impressed Panini thought, “These stones are hard. But the pitchers have rubbed them daily and made these hollows on them. My brain surely not harder than a stone? Can I also make my dull brain sharp if I try harder?” He thought thus and went to a village. One kind teacher admitted him in his school. There Panini worked hard. Eventually his dullness was gone. He learnt quickly and became a very learned man. He wrote many books.

So the moral of the story we all learn from here “always see where you are going”.