Sri Sathya Sai Baba Stories and Parables 32 - Beaten by a brahmin

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Source: Chinna Katha

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32 - Beaten by a brahmin

 

Once a dog came to Sri Rama bleeding from blows. Lakshmana was sent

to inquire why it had to receive such blows. The dog said: " I was

beaten by a brahmin with a stick. " The brahmin was questioned. He

said that the dog always was annoying him by coming across his path.

Rama asked the dog: " Well, how do you want to punish the brahmin? "

The dog said: " Make him a manager of a temple. " Rama replied with

wonder: " That would be a reward not a punishment. " The dog

said: " No, I was a manager of a temple in my previous birth. It was

impossible not to mishandle or misuse or misappropriate some

fraction of God's money. When he is that manager, he too will get

like me this canine birth and perhaps get beaten too in his

subsequent birth. "

 

In fact not only the dog or the brahmin but every one of us are

lining off the property of God, for does not all this belong to Him?

What do we do in return for all benefits we derive from the property

of the Lord? We should not simply eat and sit quiet. We have to

render service to the poor and the helpless in a manner suitable to

us.