king ruled a kingdom. One day a foreign visitor came to his court and gifted a beautiful stone to the king. The king was very happy to see that stone. He decided to make the statue of Lord Vishnu from that stone and install it in the temple of the state and handed over the work of making the statue to the General Secretary of the state.
The General Secretary went to the best sculptor of the village and gave him the stone and said, “The Maharaja wants to install the statue of Lord Vishnu in the temple. Prepare the statue of Lord Vishnu from this stone and send it to the palace within seven days. For this you will be given 50 gold coins.” The sculptor became happy after hearing about 50 gold coins and after the departure of the General Secretary, he took out his tools to start the construction work of the statue. He took a hammer from his tools and started hitting the stone to break it. But the stone remained as it was. The sculptor hit the stone several times with a hammer, but the stone did not break.
After trying fifty times, the sculptor picked up the hammer to try for the last time, but before hitting the hammer he pulled his hand thinking that if the stone did not break after hitting it fifty times, then what would break now. He took the stone and went back to the General Secretary and returned telling him that it was impossible to break this stone. Therefore the idol of Lord Vishnu cannot be made from it. The General Secretary had to fulfill the king's orders in every situation. Therefore, he handed over the task of making the statue of Lord Vishnu to an ordinary sculptor of the village. The sculptor took the stone and hit it with a hammer in front of the General Secretary and the stone broke in one go. After the stone was broken, the sculptor started making the statue. He created a very beautiful statue. Such a beautiful statue of Lord Vishnu was created as soon as it was seen, its beauty was supernatural. Because the sculptor created the statue with all his heart, with devotion and with the feeling of God, like a devotee and God is always in control of devotion, with his efforts and hard work, such a beautiful statue was ready that it was ready as soon as he saw it. Was made. And he also handed over the idol to the General Secretary and the General Secretary handed over the idol to the king and the king installed the idol in the temple. In this way the king's dream of making the idol was fulfilled and he also got 50 gold coins from the sculptor. . Here the General Secretary started thinking that if only the first sculptor had made one last attempt, he would have succeeded and would have been entitled to 50 gold coins.
Friends, we also come across such situations in our lives. Many times, before doing any work or before solving any problem, our confidence wavers and we give up without even trying. Many times, if we fail in one or two attempts, we stop trying further. Whereas it is possible that with some more effort the work would have been completed or the problem would have been solved. If you want to achieve success in life, then you should not stop trying even after failing repeatedly until you achieve success. Who knows, the effort that we give up on before attempting it may be our last attempt and we may be successful in it.
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