SEEK NO HELP FROM OTHERS

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SEEK NO HELP FROM OTHERS

"Instead of depending upon others, we should have full faith in ourselves" -Sri

Sai Satcharitra, ch. XLV.

A young man had to appear for his first interview in the afternoon. He had a new

pair of trousers made for the interview. When he tried them on in the morning,

he found that they were two inches too long.

So he went to his mother and said to her, "Will you not reduce the size of the

trousers by two inches so that I can wear them for my interview?"

"Please don’t disturb me now," said the mother. "I am preparing breakfast for

your father and he has to leave for work."

So he approached his sister and said, "Will you not bring the trousers to the proper size?"

"Please don’t disturb me," replied the sister. "I am doing my homework!"

He then appealed to his grandmother: "Dear Granny! I have to go for my

interview. Will you not cut my trousers to the right size?" And the Granny

said, "What can I do, my boy? Today is a day on which I cannot thread the

needle. I cannot do this work now."

The poor boy! Exasperated, he had no choice but to take up a needle and thread

and do the job himself. The task completed, he kept his trousers aside, ready

to be worn in the afternoon.

Imagine his horror when he put on the trousers! They had been reduced to

half-pants! His mother had prepared the breakfast for the father and then

reduced trousers by two inches. So also the sister, after having completed

homework, had further reduced the length of the trousers.

And finally, the grandmother had called for a servant to threat the needle for

her and she too reduced the size of the trousers by two inches more!

The result was disastrous!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

It is only the strong who can forgive. There is not an injury, which cannot be

pardoned. There is not a wrong, which cannot be forgiven. How much can you

forgive?

Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya.....

Learning Experience

Believe nothing,

O monks, merely

Because you have been

told it... or because it is

traditional, or because

you yourselves have

imagined it. Do not believe

what your teacher tells you

merely out of respect for the teacher,

But whatsoever, after due examination

and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good.

the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe

and cling to, and take it as your guide.

-Gautama Buddha