- It is true that unless the time is ripe, nothing comes to pass. A boy said to his mother before going to sleep, ‘Mother, please wake me up when I feel the call of nature.’ The mother said, ‘Son, its pressure will wake you up. I don’t have to wake you.’
- God has already decided what each one shall receive. A mother-in-law used to give a certain amount of rice to her daughters-in-law, measuring it with an earthen cup. The girls did not get enough rice. One day, to the great joy of the girls, the cup broke. The mother-in-law then said, ‘You may dance and shout, my children, but I can measure the amount very well with the palm of my hand.’
- One does not renounce till the time is ripe. When the fruit is ripe, the flower falls off by itself. One should not push and tug at a coconut when it is not ripe – that would injure the tree.