The Deep Blue Seas

The Three Questions A king was well learned in all the Vedas and governed his people very well. There was no dearth or want of anything but three questions always bothered him, he visited many places and met many scholars in vain to find the answers. One day he decided to assign this task to a great scholar who was very learned in literature and philosophy, he summoned the scholar and gave him the questions bothering him. Where is god? Which way is he seeing? What is his work? The scholar was given six months to find answers to these questions and in return was provided enough money to last , If he was successful in providing answers he would be treated well in gold and silver otherwise be banished from the kingdom. The scholar went home worried and tensed, he was a learned man but not very practical and with this task at hand he was worried and fell sick. This man’s farm was taken care by a little boy who would graze the cows, he was very clever and blessed with knowledge. One

And I was getting late as usual to work and battled my way across the construction signs on the local roads and finally managed to get on freeway not before giving the “I was here first look” and the occasional honk and now that I was comfortably moving at the Needle on the 20 mph, I had the comfort of taking a sip of the freshly brewed coffee my sweet wife had handed me before I left home and then pushed the decibels up to a comfortable level on the radio. That’s when I thought I heard something familiar and yes I was correct it was the distant voice of the street hawkers vibrating in distant harmony with an occasional tinkle on the bell and this one was apparently one who would sharpen kitchen knives. It was the Morning edition on NPR and the program was about the “The Lost Sounds of Old Beijing” and how family run older professions are being given up for more advanced and less labor intensive work for higher pay. But the melodic noise and cries made by the knife sharpening hawker on