A man, who was of no use to anyone, after death, went to heaven.  He asked for a luxurious room, he got one.  He asked for excellent food, he got them.  He asked for an LCD TV with all his favorite channels, he got it. He asked for a vehicle to roam around the place, he got one.  Then he started asking one by one and the angels were providing all he wanted.

After a few weeks, he was fed up with all the luxurious and comfortable things.  He wanted to do some work to engage his mind.  He asked the angel, “I want to do some work.  Do you have any work for me here?”.  For that the angel said, “I’m sorry, here you can get anything you want but for work”.  This man was annoyed and shouted at the angel, “This place is horrible.  How can you call this as heaven?”.  For that the angel replied, “I beg your pardon.  Did you say this place as heaven?  I think you misunderstood it.  This is not heaven.  This is hell.”

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 My Physics Prof. Ananthan doesn’t only talk about Maths & Physics but also tells me many thought provoking stories.  One of them he told me when we visited Rameswaram Temple was this ‘Hell & Heaven’. The context of this story came when we were describing about people’s motivation to build such wonderful temples few hundred years ago when they had everything in their life.