Monday, March 24, 2008

Vivekanand and ambiguity.......!

Yesterday I was reading a Marathi news paper "TARUN BHARAT".It had a special section about the stories and one of them was about the Swami Vivekananda. Story was some thing like.... leave it I will tell the story later....first see how the sentence is ambiguous in meaning.
Sentence: "Give him what you want" or "What you want, give it to him".
The above sentence is always taken as ...ex: you are told to give ur friend a pen or book. You give him book, as you wanted to give him that.
But there is another meaning to the sentence "Give him what you want" and that goes like this...
ex: you are asked what u want from the pen and book? say ur answer is pen. then you should give him pen and not the book.
Logically say ...what you want=X ..then..... give him what you want= give him X.
Isn't it funny?


And this sentence relates to the Vivekananda as:

Once Vivekananda and his friend had gone to the Vivekananda's home for the lunch break from school. The friend was from a poor family and was very hungry. Vivekananda took him to home and asked mother to give them some thing to eat. she was engaged in some work and said go and take LADDUS from the dabba. She actualy said,"There are two laddus in dabba, give him what you want." And Vivekananda gave him the bigger one took a smaller for himself. Mother had seen this and when vivekanand came back to home she asked him,"didn't you liked the laddu?"
He told he liked it and his friend too. Then she asked," why did you gave him the bigger one and took the smaller?" Intelligent Vivekanand replied ,"You had told me to give him what I want, I wanted the bigger one and So I gave it to him."

Salute to great Vivekanand!

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