Thursday, August 2nd., 2018
02 Aug 2018
Why should we always speak sweetly and respectfully? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us through a little story.
02 Aug 2018
Why should we always speak sweetly and respectfully? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us through a little story.
By
your words, will you be judged. A king, out on hunting, happened to
ride so far that his retinue could not catch up with him. He saw a blind
man by the jungle road and so he accosted him, "Hello, dear man. Did
you notice any one passing along?" The blind man said, "No." Then after a
few minutes, the minister came along and asked the same man, "Hey
brother! Did you notice any one passing along?" and got the same answer.
The commander when he saw him asked, "Here, you fool! Did you notice
someone passing along?" and a soldier who came last shouted, "You blind
rotter, open your foul mouth and tell me whether any one passed this
way." At last when the priest of the court came along and said, "Dear
brother, please tell me whether any one passed this way," he could reply
that a king, a minister, a commander and a soldier had passed and had
asked him the same question. Each one’s style of speech had revealed
their status and character.
- Divine Discourse, Jul 24, 1964.