IRREVERSIBLE

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IRREVERSIBLE

 

Baba said, “It is not good to dispute and argue” in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch. X.

 

There once was a little girl who had a bad temper. Her mother gave her a bag of

nails and told her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail

into the back of the fence.

 

The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few

weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number of nails hammered daily

gradually dwindled down. She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than

to drive those nails into the fence.

 

Finally the day came when the girl didn’t lose her temper at all. She told her

mother about it and the mother suggested that the girl now pull out one nail

for each day that she was able to hold her temper. The passed and the young

girl was finally able to tell her mother that all the nails were gone. The

mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence.

 

She said, “You have done well, my daughter, but look at the holes in the fence.

The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a

scar just like this one.” You put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won’t

matter how many times you say sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is

as bas as a physical one.

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