{"id":1991,"date":"2020-05-24T01:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2020-05-24T01:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T01:13:48","slug":"simhavalokanam-awaken-the-lion-in-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/05\/24\/simhavalokanam-awaken-the-lion-in-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMHAVALOKANAM – Awaken the Lion in all of us"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Mukund is writing 10th<\/sup> class exams. Today is mathematics paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom: All the best, beta. Rock the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund: okay mom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He goes to exam hall and on receiving the question paper, he starts writing it and just before 30 minutes of end, bit paper is given. He is going through it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one question, before the thinking process could complete, he placed a tick to the wrong answer. With that, he misses two other questions. He finishes the paper and reaches home.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lion with Cub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mom: how was the exam??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund(disappointed): yeah, wrote well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom senses the disappointment, sits near him, puts her hand on his head and asks what the matter is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund: Mom, I made a mistake. I wrote main paper well but in bit paper, at one question, I was thinking and before I tick the right answer, I fumbled and ticked the wrong one and with that, I missed two more bits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is more bothering me is not that I missed bits, but the haste that made me do this. I don\u2019t want to repeat this but don\u2019t know what to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom: regarding the exam, you can\u2019t do anything, but in the case of haste, you can do a lot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund(with a surprised expression): What??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom: Be like a lion. You will never face this problem again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund: how is it related?? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom: Did you ever observe how a lion walks in the forest?? It takes some steps, stops and looks in all the directions and continues walking. After some 5 to 6 steps, it repeats the same thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know what it does?? It assesses after every 5 steps that the path it has taken is safe or not and continues the journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund: so??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom: Before attempting anything, make sure you have checked all the options, then only attempt. Every once in a while, stop\u2026 check what you are doing and proceed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund: Why only lion??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom: lion is the only animal which does this and let me tell you this is how a leader is supposed to be. Lion is the natural leader and this process is called \u201cSIMHAVALOKANAM\u201d.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund feels much better after his conversation with mom and watches a walking lion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He writes second paper of mathematics the next day very well and he reminds himself a picture of lion walking and takes deep breaths and finishes bit paper super cool. He comes home energetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mukund: Mom, I nailed the paper today. He hugs mom and thanks her for conversation the other day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom smiles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Away: While doing anything, Stop\u2026 think for a while\u2026 Proceed to next step. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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