Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young
grandson.
Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table
reading

his
Bhagavat Geeta. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried
to imitate him in every way he could. One day the grandson
asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavat Geeta just like you
but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget
as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavat
Geeta
do?"
The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and
replied,
“Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a
basket
of
water."
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before
he got
back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll
have to
move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river
with
the
basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty
before he
returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was
impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket
instead. The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I
want a
basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went
out
the
door to watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to
show
his
grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water
would
leak
out before he got back to the house.
The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when
he
reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of
breath, he
said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"
"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the
basket."
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that
the
basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old
coal
basket
and was now clean, inside and out.
"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bhagavat Geeta. You
might
not
understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you
will be
changed, inside