Fwd: Sanch to Aanch Nahi

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---------- Forwarded message ----------vish <itgarg22-Mar-2007 02:08Sanch to Aanch Nahi

 

Sanch to Aanch

Nahi

 

About 100 years ago, in a small village close to Ujjain (Kashi), a

righteous Muslim named Abdulgani lived. He followed the principle of " Satya

dharma-rataya " - conducting his actions and speech as per the laws

of righteousness. He was a weaver by profession and was always satisfied

with whatever little he earns honestly.

 

Every week he would go and sell hand weaved blankets in Kashi.

Once he sold two blankets to a Bajaj shopkeeper. Next week he approached the

merchant to collect the payment for the blankets. Merchant told that last

week his shop caught fire and everything was burned to ashes, including his

blankets. So he can't pay for the blankets.

 

Listening to the argument of the merchant, Abdulgani immediately

responded, " I have always done my business with values of truthfulness and

righteousness. Due to these virtues I could assure that my blankets would

never be burned by fire. "

 

Bajaj, " But there was a lot of kerosene in my shop and being

soaked with kerosene oil your blankets also turned to ashes. " Confident

Abdulgani immediately threw the challenge, " Take this new blanket, soak it

in oil, and see if any fire could burn this? "

 

By this time many people had crowded. They all agreed to put the

blanket in fire to test the validity of Abdulgani's statements. Bajaj soaked

the blanket in the oil and placed the blankets in fire. To their utter surprise, whole kerosene got burned but not a single

thread of blanket was burned!!

 

Bajaj felt ashamed of his unrighteous behavior and begged forgiveness

from Abdulgani and mended his treacherous way of conduct.

 

This incident verily proves the power of truthfulness and righteous

conduct. One who holds the righteousness is saved by righteousness in

return. Remember, truth always emerges as victorious (Sanch ko Aanch

Nahi), how adverse the situations might be, we just need to keep patience. Lord

Krishna has explained in Bhagvad Gita that the quality of truthfulness

originates from Him (satya damah ksamah 10.4) and presence of truthfulness is

indicative of the divine nature of the person (ahimsa satyam akrodhas 16.2).

Those who lack this are non-divine (na satyam teshu vidyate 16.7). Moreover,

truthfulness itself is described as Supreme Absolute truth (Satyam gyanam

anantam brahma-Vedanta Sutra; Satyam Param Dhimahi - S.Bhagvat 1.1.1). Thus simply

by being truthful, we could easily keep the company of God.

 

Let's learn to

be righteous in our conduct. Let's purify our speech by speaking truth. Do

count the number of times we speak lie and truth to know more about our habits.

Let's try to weave the threads of truthfulness in our lives and we would remain serene

and cool amidst the fire of worldly troubles!

 

regards

 

Vishvambhar

 

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the

people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the

time. (Abraham Lincoln). Learn to speak truth.

-- " Let Noble thoughts come to us from every side " . - RigVeda (1-89-i)