A story on propagation of truth !

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Once upon a time there lived a man whose nose got

cut in an accident and this 'uniqueness' made the

poor fellow quite depressed until he hit upon an

idea.<br>He migrated to another village which was very far

from his place of residence and from day one he began

dancing with joy with his eyes closed taking the name of

one of the gods. This charade went on for quite some

time until people got curious and began asking him

questions, he replied that he has continuous visions of the

god whose name he chants and thus he is in perpetual

joy. People were indeed impressed by his apparent

blissful state and very soon he began getting potential

disciples who wanted to learn 'his ways' so as to escape

from their lives of drudgery and toil. But he put a

precondition that in order to walk his path a person would

have to get his nose-cut because the nose was a symbol

of 'personal ego' and god never shows himself to a

person with ego. This pre-condition caused most

potential disciples to disperse except one sincere chap who

had a burning desire to see god for he was very much

troubled in his mundane life.<br>Hence the disciple's nose

was cut and he began chanting and dancing as per his

nose-less guru's instructions, but even after a long time

there was no vision, thus he approached his guru

somewhat angrily that what he was taught was all false !

The guru hurriedly took him to a secluded corner and

said " You fool ! Did you really think there is going

to be a vision ? Now the situation is this, only you

and myself are the two persons among the surrounding

millions who are nose-less, do you want to become a

tamaasha(funny exhibit) for all to enjoy? I would advise you to

continue as you were and start telling all that you too

have 'attained' the vision of god so that our kind may

multiply. "<br>And this is what happened, now there are

more than a million of these 'nose-cut' disciples at

various stages of advancement to the final revelation

that was given to the first disciple. And naturally

they and especially those who have had the 'final

revelation' have a certain missionary zeal to propagate the

truth for not so obvious reasons.<br><br>Any comments ?