I am really glad that I changed my profession
from banking to teaching. Banking is boring and stressful. Even though, some
stress is involved in teaching too, the humour you come across while teaching
kids makes it easily bearable.
Once, I was doing a Buddhism lesson to
grade 5 kids and was explaining about Lord Buddha’s second visit to Sri Lanka. I
told them that it was to Nagadeepa and the two kings, Chulodara and Mahodara were fighting over their rights
to a throne embedded with precious gems which was inherited from their
forefathers. Suddenly one boy raised his hand and I gave him the chance to
speak.
He asked me, “Sir,
how did the two kings have four fathers?”
Another day, I was telling them about Lord Buddha’s
visit to his home town, Kimbulwathpura. I
explained that even though Buddha was invited to King Suddodhana’s castle on
the first day for meals, on the second day there was no invitation and he had
to go from door to door on alms begging.
Suddenly, a kid asked, “Sir, how many
arms did he get?”
