On faiths

A satori I had heard once that I would like to share.

There were once two sects of worshippers in a village in India. One set of people loved Shiva and were to wear horizontal ash lines on thier fore head.The other sect who worshipped another God Vishnu, used the long vertical Vermilion mark on thier head. They would use every oppurtunity to prove who was right - the horizontals or the verticals.

One day there was a huge flood in the village and all the people gathered into the one large common hall to shelter from the rain and storm. The horizontals noticed that there were vertical rafters and were upset . "We will not tolerate anything vertical" they said.:mad: They began tearing down the vertical rafters. The verticals noticed and were upset even more. "We will not tolerate any Horizontals!!" said they, and cut down all the horizontal rafters. "The Roof! The Roof !" cried a few people with common sense. But alas with rafters gone, all the hay came tumbling down equally on both the horizontals and the verticals, leaving them open to the merciless rain.
:)