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Date: 27 April 2018

 

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Post No. 4953

 

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Swami Rama Tirtha’s Answers

 

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Question 1 : What is the greatest riddle?

Answer : Life, for we all have to give it up.

 

Q 2 : Safest Banks, fast stock – most profitable share?

A    : The farmer’s earth banks, live stock and ploughshares.

 

Q 3 : How can you always have what you please?

A    : If you will be pleased with what you have.

 

Q 4 : What is matter?

A    : Never Mind

What is Mind?

No matter.

 

Q 5 : What man is born with three hands?

A    :  The man who gets a right hand, a left hand and a little behind hand.

 

Q 6 : I tremble at each breadth of air and yet can heaviest burden bear?

A    :  Water

 

Q 7 : What does the worthy man think is more blessed to give than to receive?

A    : Kicks, pills and advice

 

Q 8 : What common thing is very uncommon?

A    : Common sense

 

Q 9 : Why are people very generous when they hear a sermon?

A    :  They give it all away.

 

Q 10 : Which is the largest room in the world?

A      : Room for improvement

Q 11 : What is that a king can do and God cannot?

A      :  A king can banish or deport man of his subjects from his kingdom, God cannot.

 

Q 12 : What does a man see everyday and God never see?

A      : His equal

 

Q 13 : What is better than an idea?

A      : You dear!

 

Q 14 : Why does a preacher have an easier time than a Doctor or Lawyer?

A      : Easier to preach than practice.

 

Q 15 : What low-born ill-bred fellow had noble blood in him?

A      : A flea when it bites lords and ladies.

 

Q 16 : An Englishman to Abraham Lincoln : What was your family coat of arms?

A      : Shirt sleeves.

 

Q 17 : This side of the river is “the other side”?

A      : That is one side, therefore this is the other side.

 

Q 18 : When is the new birth reliable?

A      : When the second birth precedes the first one.

 

Q  19 : What did Adam first plant in the garden of Eden?

A       : His foot.

 

Q 20 : Why are potatoes and corn like the Pharisees ?

A      :  They have eyes and see not, and ears and hear not.

Q 21 : Zeno said, “Motions is impossible.”  A body cannot move in the place where it is, for the place is no larger than the body, and it cannot move in another place, because it is not there.

A      : But it can move out of one place into another.

 

Q 22 : A cat has nine tails?

A      : One cat  (1)   one tail

No cat  (8)   eight tails

————-    ————-

therefore one cat      nine tails

——————–        ———–

 

Q 23 : Palindromes ?

A      : According to Sidney Smith, How did Adam introduce himself to Eve.

Madam I’m Adam

Napoleon speaks of himself :

“Able was I ere saw Elba”

Q 24 : Squraing the circle?

A      :

C I R C L E

I C A R U S

R A R E S T

C R E A T E

L U S T R E

E S T E E M

 

( To Be Continued)

 

 

Treat this article as second part of the Tamil/English article -Part 1 posted day before yesterday

 

 

ஸ்வாமி ராமதீர்த்தரின் குறிப்பேடுகள் சிலவற்றின் தொகுப்பு – 2

 

–SUBHAM–